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The municipality of Añana is located 30 km to the west of Vitoria, with 21,9 Km² and 195 inhabitants. The municipality is compound for two towns, Atiega and Salinas of Añana that it is its capital and main population nucleus. Atiega forms a town council governed by an administrative meeting and endowed with certain internal autonomy, while Salinas of Añana is administered directly by the municipality. Salinas of Añana is famous for his exploitation of salt, abandoned today but in restoration process.Salinas of Añana (in Basque Gesaltza Añana and officially Salinas of Añana/Gesaltza-Añana) is the main population nucleus and capital of the municipality of Añana.Salinas of Añana possesses springs of salted water that form the river he Dies, due to that the underground courses of water cross silts of salt before leaving to the surface and whose exploitation is documented from the year 822. These salines together with those of Puddle of the Salt have been the most important in the whole Iberian Peninsula.
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