Districts of Madrid
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Districts and wards
Data as of 1st January 2017. Source: Área de Gobierno de Economía, Hacienda. Subdirección General de Estadística. Padrón Municipal de Habitantes.[citation needed]
District Number | Name | District area[n 1] (Ha.) |
Population | Population density (Hab./Ha.) |
Location | Administrative wards |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Centro | 522.82 | 131,928 | 252.34 | (16) | |
2 | Arganzuela | 646.22 | 151,965 | 235.16 | Palos de Moguer (26) (27)
Atocha | |
3 | Retiro | 546.62 | 118,516 | 216.82 | Niño Jesús (36)
| |
4 | Salamanca | 539.24 | 143,800 | 266.67 | Recoletos (41) Goya (42) Fuente del Berro (43) Guindalera (44) Lista (45) Castellana (46) | |
5 | Chamartín | 917.55 | 143,424 | 156.31 | (56) | |
6 | Tetuán
|
537.47 | 153,789 | 286.13 | Berruguete (66)
| |
7 | Chamberí | 467.92 | 137,401 | 293.64 | Gaztambide (71) Arapiles (72) Trafalgar (73) Almagro (74) Ríos Rosas (75) Vallehermoso (76) | |
8 | Fuencarral-El Pardo | 23,783.84 | 238,756 | 10.04 | El Goloso (88)
| |
9 | Moncloa-Aravaca | 4,653.11 | 116,903 | 25.12 | Casa de Campo (91) Argüelles (92) Ciudad Universitaria (93) Valdezarza (94) Valdemarín (95) El Plantío (96) Aravaca (97) | |
10 | Latina | 2,542.72 | 233,808 | 91.95 | Cuatro Vientos (106) (107)
Las Águilas | |
11 | Carabanchel | 1,404.83 | 243,998 | 173.68 | (117) | |
12 | Usera | 777.77 | 134,791 | 173.30 | Pradolongo (127)
| |
13 | Puente de Vallecas | 1,496.86 | 227,595 | 152.05 | Entrevías (131) San Diego (132) Palomeras Bajas (133) Palomeras Sureste (134) Portazgo (135) Numancia (136) | |
14 | Moratalaz | 610.32 | 94,197 | 154.34 | (146) | |
15 | Ciudad Lineal | 1,142.57 | 212,529 | 186.01 | Ventas (151) Pueblo Nuevo (152) Quintana (153) Concepción (154) San Pascual (155) San Juan Bautista (156) Colina (157) Atalaya (158) Costillares (159) | |
16 | Hortaleza | 2,741.98 | 180,462 | 65.81 | Apóstol Santiago (165) (166)
Valdefuentes | |
17 | Villaverde | 2,018.76 | 142,608 | 70.64 | (175) | |
18 | Villa de Vallecas | 5,146.72 | 104,421 | 19.86 | Casco Histórico de Vallecas (181) Santa Eugenia (182) Ensanche de Vallecas (183) | |
19 | Vicálvaro | 3,526.67 | 70,051 | 19.86 | Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro (191) Valdebernardo (192) Valderrivas (193) El Cañaveral (194) | |
20 | San Blas-Canillejas | 2,229.24 | 154,357 | 69.24 | Simancas (201) Hellín (202) Amposta (203) Arcos (204) Rosas (205) Rejas (206) Canillejas (207) Salvador (208) | |
21 | Barajas | 4,192.28 | 46,876 | 11.18 | Alameda de Osuna (211) Aeropuerto (212) Casco Histórico de Barajas (213) Timón (214) Corralejos (215) | |
TOTAL | 60,445.51 | 3,182,175 | 52.65 |
Popular neighbourhoods
Contemporary Madrid came into its own after the death of general
Alonso Martínez
This area contains the large
Atocha
AZCA / Nuevos Ministerios
Located in the Cuatro Caminos ward,
centre of Madrid.Cuatro Torres Business Area
The
Chueca
Chueca is well known as a centre of gay culture in Madrid.[2]
Las Cortes
This small area is notable for housing the
Huertas
This neighbourhood, also known as Barrio de las Letras, is west of the Paseo del Prado and north of Calle Atocha. Once the home and popular hangout of writers such as
Gran Vía
As the name implies, the Gran Vía area contains one of Madrid's most important avenues, the
Lavapiés
A historically poorer neighbourhood within the city center, Lavapiés has maintained much of true 'Madrileño' spirit of the past. Lavapiés has a high concentration of immigrants (mainly Bangladeshis), and also tends to attract Western European expats, artists and writers, adding to the cosmopolitan mix. It is changing rapidly under the pressures of gentrification.
La Latina
In and around
Malasaña
Malasaña is famous for its nightlife, and for having been the main hub of the movida countercultural movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Considered very popular and one of the best´s Madrid´s neighbourhoods with available pubs and bars during night.
Ópera
As the name implies, this area around the
Retiro
Barrio Retiro is a classic neighbourhood surrounding the famous
Hortaleza
A residential district in the north, Hortaleza includes the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee, the IFEMA (Madrid's main trade fair centre) and Juan Carlos I Park, a park between Campo de las Naciones (commercial district) and Barajas. Mar de Cristal is a tube station in Hortaleza district with an airport connection.
Vallecas
Vallecas is a working-class residential neighbourhood in the south of Madrid. It is also home to the Rayo Vallecano football team.
Aravaca
Aravaca is an upper-class residential suburb in the northwest of Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War the front was stabilized here for almost three years. Aravaca and its surroundings include parkland and wooded areas such as Casa de Campo.
Notes
- ^ Superficie revisada según seccionado 2014
References
- ^ "La mayor obra de rascacielos de Europa" (in Spanish). CincoDias.com. 21 August 2006.
- ^ ISBN 9781612370316.
- ^ "Huertas Madrid". Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
External links
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