How can I change the style of biblatex to display 6 names and "et al"?

Question

I want to get the following style for my bibliography:

Where I get the name of a maximum of six authors and if there are more I get six plus et al.

When there are less than 6 authors (1) I have not problem using 
usepackage[maxbibnames=6, maxcitenames=6]{biblatex}

However if there are more than 6 authors (2) it only displays the first one plus "et al." I have not been able to find out any solution for this.
How can I solve it?

My actual code is as follows

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt,spanish]{article}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[spanish,es-tabla]{babel}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%usepackage{biblatex}
usepackage[maxbibnames=6, maxcitenames=6]{biblatex}
addbibresource{bibliography2.bib}

DefineBibliographyStrings{spanish}{%
  andothers = {etaddabbrvspace aladddot}
}

begin{document}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,  consectetuer adipiscing elit.   Ut purus elit,cite{1}
vestibulum ut, placerat ac, adipiscing vitae, felis.   Curabitur dictum gravida
mauris. Nam arcu libero, nonummy eget, consectetuer id, vulputate a, magna.cite{2}

newpage
printbibliography[title={Referencias bibliográficas}]
end{document}

I get this

Thanks in advance.

moewe · Answer

When a name list hits the max(bib|cite)names limit, it is automatically truncated to min(bib|cite)names. So if you want to see up to six names in the bibliography you need to set

minbibnames=6, maxbibnames=6,

You can combine maxbibnames=6, maxcitenames=6, into

maxnames=6,

and if desired you can do the same for min(bib|cite)names.

documentclass[a4paper, 12pt,spanish]{article}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage[spanish,es-tabla]{babel}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

usepackage[style=numeric,
  maxnames=6, minbibnames=6,
  giveninits=true, terseinits=true]{biblatex}
addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

DeclareNameAlias{author}{sortname}
DeclareNameAlias{editor}{sortname}
DeclareNameAlias{translator}{sortname}

DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{family-given}
renewcommand*{revsdnamepunct}{}

DeclareDelimAlias*{finalnamedelim}{multinamedelim}
makeatletter
DefineBibliographyExtras{spanish}{%
  restorecommandlbx@finalnamedelim
  restorecommandlbx@finallistdelim
}
makeatother

DefineBibliographyStrings{spanish}{%
  andothers = {etaddabbrvspace aladddot},
}

begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet autocite{aksin}
vestibulum ut autocite{companion}

printbibliography
end{document}

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