What is "garmendia"

Garmendia is the surname of a noble family of the Basque Country region of Guipuzcoa, in Spain. The surname means "the volcano" or "the fire mountain" (gar 'fire', mendi 'mountain'), after Garmendia de Iraurgui, later known as Salvatierra de Iraurgui, later the site of the cities of Azpeitia and Azkoitia.

The family Garmendia enjoys the status of hidalgo, of ancient origin, previous to the Reconquista. The family spread out of the Basque Country to the rest of Spain and, during colonization, to Argentina, Chile, United States, Mexico and Cuba.

The coat of arms is Argent, a boar sable, running away from a hunter, who injures it with a lance sable tipped azure, upon a hill vert with a tree vert.