Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Basque Country
- Province
- Gipuzkoa
- Comarca
- Urola Kosta
- Mayor
- Anuska Esnal Oliden
- Total
- 9.81 km (3.79 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Density
- 630/km (1,630/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 ( CEST )
- Website
- www.orio.eus/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Orio
- Demonym
- oriotar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Urola Kosta
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Basque
- Population
- 4266
- Area
- 9.81
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Cantabrian Sea
- Shares border with
- Usurbil
- Official website
- www.orio.eus
- Image
- Orio airetik.jpg
- Licence plate code
- SS
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- topic's main category
- Category:Orio
- Commons category
- Orio
- postal code
- 20810
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- category for people born here
- Q10097114
- male population
- 3020
- female population
- 3002
- nickname
- ijitok
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Encyclopedic overview
The Orio whale Orio is a fishing town located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain, with the town nucleus lying on the river Oria, roughly one mile away from its mouth by the Bay of Biscay. Orio had a population of 5,901 inhabitants as of 2016.
Traditionally a town attached to the sea and the fishing industry, this sector is losing ground to the more profitable and less demanding tourism, rapidly developing after marshes between the town and the beach were drained with a view to building up new tourist oriented housing. The most widely known and conspicuous sport activity in Orio is the rowing regatta typical of the Basque and Cantabric coastal area, featuring a team represented by the yellow colour.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.