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As of 1 January 2024, the Community of Madrid has a registered population of 7,001,715 inhabitants, [62] and it is the most populated province and third most populated autonomous community in Spain. Population density is 829.62 hab/km 2 , much higher than the national average of 93.8 hab/km 2 .
Valdeolmos-Alalpardo is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain.It comprises three separate blocks: Valdeolmos, Alalpardo and Miraval. Alalpardo is famous for a live Nativity scene in which more than 200 people create images of the birth of Christ. Shepherds, Roman soldiers, craftspeople, fishermen, merchants, and live mules, donkeys, horses, hens, geese, sheep, pigs, ducks, and ...
Twelve of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain have national parks. Canary Islands has the most with four, followed by Andalusia with three, and Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León with two each. There are five autonomous communities that have no national parks: Basque Country, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarre, Valencian Community.
Many animal owners make the annual pilgrimage for their pets on the feast day of St. Anthony, the patron saint of animals.
Dolphins in the Zoo Aquarium Brown bear cubs in the Madrid Zoo Aquarium Eagles over the people in Madrid Zoo Aquarium. The Madrid Zoo Aquarium is a 20-hectare (49-acre) zoo and aquarium located in the Casa de Campo in Madrid, Spain. [1] The zoo is owned by the city, but is managed by the international entertainment operator Parques Reunidos.
Entrevías is a neighbourhood of Madrid belonging to the district of Puente de Vallecas. As of 2019 it was the poorest neighborhood in the municipality. [1] According to the National Institute of Statistics, the population of Entrevías in 2006 was 37,790. According to City Council of Madrid by 2023 the population had reduced to 35,399. [2]
Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), [14]: 44 it is also the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. [15]
Navarre, as a single province, acceded to autonomy through the recognition, update and improvement of its historical and local "law" (charters; Spanish fueros), and as such, it is known as a "chartered community". The province of Madrid, home to the national capital, was removed from Castilla-La Mancha (formerly New Castile), to which it ...