Narbarte enters the investigation as one of several communities associated with infant deaths near the river. The evidence identifies it as a point in a larger geographic pattern, not as the setting of a separately described scene or discovery.

Narbarte in the Case Map

When the investigators narrowed their search to communities bordering the river, they counted one case in Narbarte. The same survey identified cases in Elizondo, Oronoz-Mugaire, Doneztebe, and Hondarribia, with two in each of the latter two locations. The count followed a laborious effort to check baptismal records: investigators had to identify each child’s parish and consult its priest, who alone had access to the information.

Part of a River-Corridor Pattern

Narbarte was added to a map that gathered reported infant deaths across multiple towns. Amaia also directed the team to mark older cases, including deaths in Elizondo, Elbete, Erratzu, and Lesaka, alongside her sister’s case and others. The resulting sequence of points followed the Baztán River from its source toward its mouth, where it takes the name Bidasoa. Narbarte’s place in that sequence made the town relevant to the investigation’s spatial pattern, though the map alone did not establish why the deaths occurred there.

Investigative Significance

The map mattered because it shifted attention from isolated family tragedies to the distribution of cases across a connected landscape. Narbarte supplied one recorded point in that inquiry; its significance rests on its relationship to the river corridor and the other communities under review, rather than on any individual event in the town described in the evidence.