Here the boundaries between municipalities are set by streets, avenues or the Llobregat and Besòs rivers.
Originally the land had been irrigated by the irrigation of the burrow and the Verneda, remains of an old arm of the river Besòs that empties into the Camp de la Bóta.
It is situated at the confluence of the Ripoll river and the Besós river, and very close to the northernmost neighbourhoods of the city of Barcelona and is therefore a part of the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
It is in the northern part of the city, bordering the river Besòs, two adjacent towns in the metropolitan area, Sant Adrià de Besòs and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, and three other districts of Barcelona: Nou Barris, Horta-Guinardó and Sant Martí.
In 2004, however, two new tram systems were introduced: Trambaix (taking its name from the Baix Llobregat comarca, the western part of the metropolitan area), and the Trambesòs, from the river Besòs which runs through the eastern part).
Her godmother was Amalia Mendoza, a successful singer known as "La Tariácuri", and in the early 1970s she recorded four songs the Sinaloan city of Los Mochis: "Besos y Copas", "Una Noche me Embriagué", "Una Sombra" and "Amor que Muere", which earned her a reputation as a Mexican folk singer.
The director did better with Besos para todos (Kisses to all) (2000), a comedy set in the 1960s starring Emma Suárez, Eloy Azorín and Pilar López de Ayala.
Sant Adrià de Besòs and Estació de Sant Adrià are the respective names of a Rodalies de Catalunya station and a Trambesòs stop together forming an interchange complex in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Catalonia, Spain, to the north of Barcelona.
Yturbe left behind as his legacy numerous recordings, which years later, and digitally remastered, would be used by well known musicians of Latin romantic music on a tribute CD with participants such as Cristian Castro (on the track Mil besos); Luis Fonsi (on the track Historia de un Amor) and Pandora (on the track Verdad Amarga), among many others.