Debabarrena

Debabarrena (English: Lower Deba) is an eskualdea / comarca located in Gipuzkoa, Basque Country (Spain).

The municipalities which compose Debabarrena are Eibar, Soraluze-Placencia de las Armas, Elgoibar, Mendaro, Deba, Mutriku (in Gipuzkoa) and Ermua and Mallabia (in Biscay).

All the region is full of forests and prairies, and also has many streams, most of them tributaries of the Deba river, which names the comarca.

The railway line that communicates Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastian is also used in Deba, Mendaro, Elgoibar and Eibar mainly as a short-distance train.

In the primary sector, there is a big number of small exploitation lands, around 1,000, most of them for sheep and bovinae livestock.

Map of Debabarrena within Gipuzkoa.
Coast of Deba
Mutriku's harbour view