Enkarterri ( Spanish : Las Encartaciones ) is a comarca of the province of Biscay , in the Basque Country , Spain . It is one of the seven eskualdeak/comarcas or districts that make up the province of Biscay . Its administrative centre is Balmaseda .
5-475: Historically a larger region ( merindad ), Enkarterri stretched from the mountains that form its southern border with Cantabria and Castile-Leon in the west and south, to the river Nervion and the Estuary of Bilbao in the east – including the industrial municipalities of Gallarta , Muskiz , Ortuella , Portugalete , Santurtzi , Sestao , Trapagaran and Zierbena . Nowadays the name usually refers only to
10-524: Is a Mediaeval Spanish administrative term for a country subdivision smaller than a province but larger than a municipality . The officer in charge of a merindad was called a merino , roughly equivalent to the English count or bailiff . It was used in the kingdoms of Castile and Navarre . Connected to the birth of Castile, the Merindades , standing for a northernmost comarca of
15-615: The Province of Burgos ( Castile and León ) and the province of Álava , also in the Basque Country, to the south. The river Kadagua crosses the region and drains most of it. 43°14′38″N 3°11′44″W / 43.24389°N 3.19556°W / 43.24389; -3.19556 This article about a location in the Basque Country, Spain, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Merindad Merindad ( Spanish pronunciation: [meɾinˈdað] )
20-544: The province of Burgos, was part of the creation of the administrative division by King Peter . Currently, the Foral Community of Navarre is still divided into five merindades standing for different judicial districts. The historic Merindad de Ultrapuertos lying to the north of the Pyrenees is nowadays Lower Navarre . Administratively, they have been substituted by the partido judicial . In Biscay ,
25-526: The rural western part of the historical territory, while the eastern urban area is known as the Left Bank ( Margen Izquierda / Ezkerraldea ) and is part of the Greater Bilbao comarca (together with Barakaldo , which used to belong to the neighbouring merindad of Uribe ). Enkarterri is located at the northwest of the province of Biscay . It borders the community of Cantabria to the west, and
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