Fuencarral-El Pardo
Fuencarral-El Pardo | |
---|---|
![]() M-30 ring highway over the district | |
Country | ![]() |
Aut. community | ![]() |
Municipality | ![]() |
Area | |
• Total | 237.81 km2 (91.82 sq mi) |
Population | 220,085 |
• Density | 925.5/km2 (2,397/sq mi) |
Madrid district number | 8 |
![]() |
Fuencarral-El Pardo is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain.
Overview
[edit]Fuencarral-El Pardo is the district number 8 and consists of the following neighborhoods: El Pardo (81), Fuentelarreina (82), Peñagrande (83), Pilar (84), La Paz (85), Valverde (86), Mirasierra (87) and El Goloso (88).
Despite its being a part of a capital city, El Pardo with its woods and river is an ecologically important landscape. It enjoyed protection from development as a hunting estate associated with the Royal Palace of El Pardo. In the 1980s the European Union designated the Monte de El Pardo as a Special Protection Area for bird-life.[1]
Geography
[edit]Subdivision
[edit]The district is administratively divided into 8 wards (Barrios):
Education
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Colegio_Alem%C3%A1n_de_Madrid_%282015%29_01.jpg/220px-Colegio_Alem%C3%A1n_de_Madrid_%282015%29_01.jpg)
The new campus of the Deutsche Schule Madrid, in Montecarmelo (ES) in the district, opened in the fall of 2015.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "El Monte de El Pardo".
- ^ "El nuevo Colegio Alemán de Madrid, la mayor obra civil alemana del extranjero" (Archive). La Vanguardia. 9 October 2015. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.
External links
[edit] Media related to Fuencarral-El Pardo at Wikimedia Commons
40°28′43″N 3°42′35″W / 40.47861°N 3.70972°W