Council belonging to the merindad of Busturia.

Ajánguiz is in a mountainous hillside that dominates the fertile plain of Guernica; at least of 4 km of distance, to the east of Guernica. The river Oka does of border between the municipality of Ajánguiz and that of Guernica and Luno.

He was contributing porrazón of 59 fogueras and had the eleventh seat and I vote in lasJuntas for Personal details of Gernika. His origin goes back a year 788, in which Fortún Ortúñez of Noreña, son of count LopeDíaz, Blond, raised the solar Ajangiz house.

During the Middle Age it did not escape to the factions wars and it took part, along with the house deArteaga, in a freed clash contraAlonso of Múgica and Pedro de Abendaño (1468).

It is a tradition that the Ajangiz cross was erected in the place for to commemorate a truce between both edicts although the current cross is to all lights more recent.

During the first war Carlist took place an inflamed combat between the liberal troops of general Iriarte and the Carlists of Juan Manuel Sarasa and Miguel Gómez, taking nuns' convent as a stage mercedarias of the locality.

Mendieta is the capital of the municipality, where town hall is . Kanpantxu is a hamlets group. Both are of rural character. (fte. to see the links)

Nuclei: Ajangiz, Mendieta, Kanpantxu