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Ullíbarri-Gamboa

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Hamlet in Álava, Spain

Concejo in Basque Country, Spain

42°56′14″N 2°36′31″W / 42.93722°N 2.60861°W / 42.93722; -2.60861CountrySpainAutonomous communityBasque CountryProvinceÁlavaComarcaGorbeialdeaMunicipalityArratzua-UbarrundiaArea

• Total7.23 km² (2.79 sq mi)Elevation

559 m (1,834 ft)Population

(2021)^[1]

• Total81 • Density11/km² (29/sq mi)Postal code

01520

Ullíbarri-Gamboa (Spanish: [uˈʎiβari ɣamˈboa], Basque: Uribarri Ganboa Basque pronunciation: [uɾiβari ɣamboa])^[2] is a hamlet and concejo located in the municipality of Arratzua-Ubarrundia, in Álava province, Basque Country, Spain.

The hamlet gives its name to the Ullíbarri-Gamboa Reservoir, the largest in the Basque Country,^[3] The construction of the dam, between 1947 and 1956, flooded part of the village as well as most of its farmland, forcing many residents to move to nearby Vitoria-Gasteiz.^[4]

Etymology

The word Ullíbarri literally means "new town" in Basque, from uri (an archaic form of hiri, meaning "city") and barri (a dialectal form of berri, meaning "new").^[2] Gamboa is the name of the valley which was flooded by the reservoir, as well as a former municipality in the area (Ullíbarri-Gamboa was not part of the municipality).^[5]

Notable people

Bartolomé de Letona, a 17th-century Franciscan friar who held important positions in Mexico and the Philippines. He wrote several works about religion and the Philippine Islands.^[6]
Tomás Ruiz de Azúa (1659–1731), a military officer who developed his career in Chile, where he became ordinary mayor of Santiago de Chile and governor of Valparaíso.^{[citation needed]}
Francisco Ruiz de Azúa (1868-1929), a Benedictine monk and missionary who became Bishop of Eastern Tonkin in 1919.^[7]

References

^ "Nomenclátor: Núcleos". Entidades Locales de Álava (in Spanish). Diputación Foral de Álava. p. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b Salaberri Zaratiegi, Patxi (2015). Araba/Álava: Los nombres de nuestros pueblos (PDF) (in Spanish). Euskaltzaindia. pp. 370–372. ISBN 978-84-944512-0-1. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ "El embalse de Ullibarri-Gamboa (Álava) está al 70,3% de su capacidad". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 29 August 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ Triviño, Borja (16 July 2022). "Ullíbarri-Gamboa: el pueblo a los pies del embalse". GasteizHoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ Carracedo, Sergio (25 September 2020). "Los pueblos que el pantano de Ullíbarri anegó". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 October 2022.
^ "Letona, Bartolomé de". Auñamendi Encyclopedia (in Spanish). Eusko Ikaskuntza. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Francisco Ruiz de Azúa Ortiz de Zárate". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 5 October 2022.