Echezarreta, (b. 1746, Aizarnazabal) son of Manuel, captain in the Spanish Navy serving in Peru who investigated the disappearance of the Oriflama of which his father was the pilot Vicente de Bonechea Ybarbia, (later spelled Buenechea) (1810–1884), an entrepreneur from Zarautz who came to San Sebastian as a cooper in the 1830s. He provided immense vats for storing wine to be sent to Espartero in exile in London in the 1840s. Known as "Vicente Txiki," he also had a gasworks and a salting business at the corner of calle San Martin and calle Urbieta in San Sebastian whose barrels were used as the drums for the first Tamborradas in the 1840s Oscar Poey Bonachea Don Felix Buenechea Apaolaza (1845-1916), son of Vicente Txiki, Parish Priest of the Church of San Vicente, San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa. Pedro Buenechea Apaolaza, ("Perico Chipiron") (1853–1932), a son of Vicente Txiki, 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 Ramon Buenechea Apaolaza (born 1851), also a son of Vicente Txiki, inherited the salting and barrelling business. In 1888 the factory in San Martin was compulsorily purchased by order of the ayuntamiento and he moved the business to a building known as Mira-Amara in the Amara district of San Sebastian. By 1894 he was employing up to 100 people, manufacturing 3000-4000 barrels ("cuarterolas") annually and exporting 1500 barrels of salt fish (besugo, papardo, perlón and tuna) to the interior per year. His only child died young, but he did not leave the business to his brother Pedro, in consequence of which Pedro was found in the Aero Club (San Sebastian) wearing a red tie on the day of the funeral, explaining that he thought he had had a brother but had been mistaken. Candido Buenechea Zabaleta born in Tolosa in 1860 was a composer in the Basque style winning prizes in the 1890s Miguel Bonachea (born Santa Clara, Cuba 1960), Cuban guitarist and professor References Surnames Basque-language surnames