Laudio/Llodio

Coat o airms o Llodio

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Laudio/Llodio is a toun an municipality locatit in the province o Álava, in the Basque Kintra, northren Spain. Laudio is the name in Basque leid an Llodio in Spaingie; baith are uised indistinctly.

Geografie an demografie

Llodio is an important industrial center locatit at 50 km NW frae the provincial caipital o Vitoria-Gasteiz an at 20 km SE frae Bilbao. It is the seicont municipality o Álava, in population. The municipality haes a aurie o 37,56 km² an a population (2005) o 18,633 (9,288 male, 9,345 female).

Its geographical coordinates are:

• Latitude: 43º09’4’’ N
• Langitude: 2º57’22’’ W
• Altitude: Minimum: 130 m, Maximum: 782 m.

Elections an local admeenistration

Municipal election

Syne the 2011 Municipal elections the Mayor o Llodio is Mr. Natxo Urkixo Orueta (Bildu). The Coalition Bildu haes 6 municipal councillors on Llodio Toun Cooncil, the Basque Naitionalist Pairty PNV/EAJ haes 6 an aw, the Socialist Pairty o the Basque Kintra – Basque Kintra Left haes 2 as does the Fowkpairty (Spain). The local group Omnia taks the feenal seat.

General election

The results o the 2004 Spainyie General Election in Llodio wur as follaes:

• PNV - Partido Nacionalista Vasco: 37.9%
• PSE-EE (PSOE - EE) Partido Socialista de Euskadi: 27.8%
• PP - Partido Popular: 18.6%
• EB-IU - Izquierda Unida: 6.9%
• EA - Eusko Alkartasuna: 4.8%
• ARALAR-ZUTI - Aralar-Zutik: 2.0%

Sport

The toun haes a local athletics club, Club de Atletismo de Laudio, which haes its awn track an field stadium (the Estadio Ellakuri). The club haes hostit the Cross Internacional Valle de Llodio, a annual internaitional cross kintra runnin event, syne 1985.

Freemit airtin

• Ceety Cooncil Wabsteid Archived 2012-06-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie) (in Basque)
• LLODIO in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spaingie)
• Aerial view o Llodio (Google maps)