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Okina is a village of the municipality of Bernedo, in the province of Álava (Basque Country, ) situated at about 15 kilometres of Vitoria-Gasteiz and in an altitude of 800 metres.
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Location
It is situated in the northwest of the municipality, in a valley of the foothill southeast of the Mountains of Vitoria, in 794 metres of altitude. The river Ayuda cross Okina.The village is quite known by the port which gives name (port of Okina), that gives access to the place of Ullibarri of the Olleros and is usually visited by the cyclists interested alaveses.
Also it is it by the gorge that carries his name and that is bored through by the river Ayuda in direction to Sáseta, which has big vegetal and it is frecuently visited by the mountaineers of Vitoria. It is visited by the GR-38 (Route of the wine and fish).
Name
It appears like Okina in 1025 in the Cartulario of Saint Millán of the Cogolla. In 1257 it appears collected like Oquia, Oquina in documentation of 1258.
History
At the beginning of the 20th century Enrique of Eguren discovered in the term of Oquina a tumulus, having found in the term rests of human skeletons, pieces of ceramics and tipes of arrow. In the inventory that form the abbot Eavesdropper of the goods of the Monastery of Saint Martín of Albelda to finals of the 11th century, says on purpose that the king Sancho IV of Pamplona gave in the year 1073 to this monastery the church of Santa María of Okina with all his belongings. Later built like villa, constituted a Fraternity of the "cuadrilla" of Vitoria. This Fraternity stated only of the villa of Okina, and was represented in the congresses of province by the procurator of Vitoria. His government constituted it an ordinary mayor, his lieutenant and a councillor.
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Demography
In 2014 Okina had a population of 29, of which 18 were men and 11 women. (INE 2014).