Ispaster

Ispaster
Municipality
Ispáster
Coat airms
Ispaster Location in Spain
Coordinates: 43°21′46″N 2°32′35″W / 43.36278°N 2.54306°W / 43.36278; -2.54306Coordinates: 43°21′46″N 2°32′35″W / 43.36278°N 2.54306°W / 43.36278; -2.54306
Kintra	Spain
Autonomous commonty	País Vasco
Province	Biscay
Comarca	Lea-Artibai
Govrenment
• Mayor	Jesús María Lekerikabeaskoa Arrillaga (PNV)
Area
• Total	22.62 km2 (8.73 sq mi)
Elevation	110 m (360 ft)
Population  (2009)
• Total	662
• Density	29/km2 (76/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Ispastertarra
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	48280
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

Ispaster is a toun an municipality locatit in the province o Biscay, in the autonomous commonty o Basque Kintra, northren Spain.

The first airchaeological airtifacts wut foond in the caves o Kobeaga II an Kobeaga I. The first, locatit a few kilometers awa frae the sea, a smaw group in Mesolithic dedicatit tae important activity settled as fishin. This dounset, shapit bi a population o men who fished Mollusca, wis foondit aroond 3500 BCE, accordin tae the investigations made bi Apellaniz in 1973. The seicont cave, Kobeaga I, locatit in the same aurie as the first, wur uised as a funeral enclosur durin the Bronze Age. In this locality are in addeetion ither deposits athoot excavatin, such as Otoyo'ko Jentilkoba, Jentilkoba de Iparretxe an Urtiaga. The first documentit mentions o the municipality o Ispaster date frae year 1334, in a order o Alfonso XI.

Ispaster is locatit in a coastal hill, alternatin atween law an sandy auries tae clints. The first signs o human occupation are in diverse cavities whaur a smaw group livit on fishermen-recolectores durin the Mesolithic. Ithers servit like funeral enclosurs frae the Neolithic. At the beginnin o the early modren period, a constructive explosion taks place that turns the municipality in Biscay's best equippit ane in gothic-Renaissance popular airchitectur.

The Grand Prix Ayuntamiento de Ispaster wis held in Ispaster

• 1980 Ispaster attack

• http://www.ispaster.net Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
• ISPASTER in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spaingie)