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Salvatierra in Spanish and Agurain in Basque (officially ''Agurain/Salvatierra''), it is a town and municipality located in the province of Álava in the Basque Autonomous Community, northern Spain. The municipality, numbering 4,407 inhabitants (2007), is in turn the head town of the district or ''Cuadrilla of Salvatierra''. The gross income per family amounts to 6,784 € (1997, Basque Autonomous Community: 8,258 €). With reference to workforce by economic sectors, 10.36% are employed in agriculture, 35.78% in the industry sector, 47.92% in the service sector and 5.95% in the construction industry (data not available for the municipality, applies to the larger Salvatierra District).〔 Dossier in Basque〕 The council is headed by Ms Maider Garcia de Vicuña, of the coalition Bildu. ==Geography== The municipality, located at the centre of the eastern Alavese Plains, comprises a core built-up area sitting on a low ridge (605 m high) and consisting of three historical streets that stretch out south to north, i.e. ''Zapatari'', ''Mayor'' and ''Carnicería'', which bear witness to ancient guild clusters. North and west at the feet of the ridge, two watercourses, the Santa Barbara and Zadorra, outlined the town's limits not time ago, while increasingly absorbed by the rapid urban development. Outside the walls of the town spread age old neighbourhoods, such as the Madura (Basque for 'swamp'), La Magdalena or San Jorge. On either side of the road connecting the 'Portal del Rey' (main south entrance to the town) and the train station, a sprawl developed in the 1950s and 1960s, called La Moncloa. The town keeps on growing east beside the Madura through new housing projects in the 2000s (decade), i.e. Harresi Parkea. There are other minor nuclei (villages) dotting the outward lands of the municipality of Salvatierra as follows: * Alangua * Arrizala: home to the famous dolmen Sorginetxe. * Egileor * Iturrieta: former village on a plateau (Basque Mountains) nowadays turned into a farm. * Opakua: at the foot of the mount Arrigorrista, lends its name to a winding mountain pass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Salvatierra/Agurain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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