Oieregi is identified as the location of the funeral home whose records and operator help Amaia Salazar verify the fate of Yolanda Berrueta’s children. The town matters not through a described landscape but as a link in the documented route from hospital to funeral home and, ultimately, to the family tomb in Ainhoa.

The Funeral Home and the Burials

Yolanda’s father tells Amaia that the family did not cremate the children. The first, a healthy baby girl who died two weeks after birth, was buried traditionally, as were her brothers. He explains that the funeral home in Oieregi handled the arrangements: the children were taken from the hospital where they died to the funeral home, then onward to the family tomb in Ainhoa.

Amaia’s Verification

Amaia presses for certainty because she cannot ask Yolanda’s former husband directly. Yolanda’s father supplies the funeral-home owner’s address, and Amaia contacts the operator, who confirms the traditional burial arrangements. The confirmation takes only ten minutes to obtain, turning a family account into a checkable detail in Amaia’s inquiry.

Narrative Significance

Oieregi enters the investigation through an ordinary administrative fact: a funeral home’s confirmation of where the children were taken. That detail bears directly on Amaia’s question about whether their bodies were cremated, and it grounds the family’s account in a traceable sequence of places. The route from hospital through Oieregi to Ainhoa gives the burial claim practical specificity without resolving the larger questions surrounding the children’s deaths.