What is "basauri"

Basauri is a major municipality of Biscay, in the Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain.

The town is a part of the Greater Bilbao conurbation, being only a few kilometers south of Bilbao. It is an industrial town that also includes monuments such as the tower-house of Ariz. It holds the only prison in the province, located where the rivers Nervión and Ibaizabal meet. The municipality has 42,971 inhabitants (2012).

Basauri is the south-eastern terminus of Line 2 of Metro Bilbao. The station before is Ariz. Basauri station is located in the municipality of the same name, in the Greater Bilbao area. It is one of the two stations located in this municipality, the other one being Ariz. It is an underground station and its fare zone is B0.