Buenechea

Buenechea is a the Spanish spelling of a Basque surname which also occurs in the variants Bonechea, Buonechea, Boenechea and Bonachea. The modern Basque spellings are Buenetxea and Bonetxea. This surname is especially numerous in Gipuzkoa.

Notable people

• Domingo de Bonechea, an 18th century explorar
• Manuel de Agote y Bonechea (1775-1803) from Getaria who kept a diary of his travels with the Spanish Royal Philippines Company.
• Manuel de Buenechea, pilot of the doomed ship Oriflama
• Vicente de Bonechea, (later spelled Buenechea), an entrepreneur from Zarautz in the 1850s. Known as "Vicente Txiki," he had a salting business whose barrels were used as the drums for the first Tamborradas in the 1850s. His son Pedro ("Perico Chipiron") was a judge and property owner who acquired buildings in Aldamar, San Sebastian, and businesses in the nearby old quarter, which still survive as Buenechea y Hernando.