Latina is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

located in the southwestern corner of the municipality.

Etymology

Its name comes from

Beatriz Galindo Beatriz Galindo, sometimes spelled Beatrix and also known as La Latina ( – 23 November 1535), was a Spanish Latinist and educator. She was a writer, humanist and a teacher of Queen Isabella of Castile and her children. She was one of the mos ...

, ''La Latina'', teacher of Isabella I of Castile.

Geography

Position

The district, situated in a southwestern part of the municipality, borders with the following districts: Carabanchel, Arganzuela,

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and

Moncloa-Aravaca Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Aravaca, Argüelles, Casa de Campo, Ciud ...

. It includes the old cross-roads of the road of Extremadura, and it has several tributary streams to

Manzanares river The Manzanares () is a river in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, which flows from the Sierra de Guadarrama, passes through Madrid, and eventually empties into the Jarama river, which in turn is a right-bank tributary to the Tagus. In its ...

(Luche, Caño Roto etc.).

Subdivision

The district is formed by 7 administrative neighborhoods (''barrios''):

Aluche Aluche is a barrio of the city of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-la ...

, Campamento,

Cuatro Vientos Cuatro Vientos is a ward (''barrio'') of Madrid belonging to the district of Latina. Geography Cuatro Vientos is situated in the south-western area of central Madrid, close to the motorways A5 and M40 and to the homonymous airport. External ...

Las Águilas Las Águilas is an administrative neighborhood () of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. I ...

, Lucero,

Los Cármenes Los Cármenes is an administrative neighborhood () of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. ...

Puerta del Ángel Puerta del Ángel is a neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. I ...

History

The district is found over Quaternary terrains. There are several promontories in the ground: Bermejo, Cerro de la Piedra, Cerro de los Alemanes, Cerro de los Cuervos, Cerro de la Mica (the highest one) and Cerro Almodóvar. The district was included in the 1845 administrative division of Madrid in 10 districts. It included all the so-called ''los Carabancheles'' districts which were added to the city of Madrid as the district of Carabanchel in 1948. In 1971 that district was divided in the three current districts: Usera, Carabanchel and Latina.

Government

The

Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission The Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission ( es, Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación Civil, CIAIAC) is the Spanish national agency responsible for air accident investigation. It is a division ...

has its headquarters in Latina.Contáctenos
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Transport

Cercanías The commuter rail systems of Spain's major metropolitan areas are called ''Cercanías'' () in most of Spain, ''Rodalia'' () in the Valencian Community, ''Aldiriak'' () in the Basque Country and ''Rodalies'' () in Catalonia. There are twelve ''Ce ...

train line C-5. Stations: Aluche, Cuatro Vientos, Fanjul, Laguna and Las Águilas. * Madrid Metro: Lines 5 & 10.

Public services, interesting places

*Parque de Aluche. *Centro Comercial Aluche *Junta Municipal de Distrito *Colegio Público de Educación Especial Fray Pedro Ponce de León. *Polideportivo municipal de Aluche.

References

External links

*Information on Latina a
www.munimadrid.es
*Maps and satellite images a
www.munimadrid.es (PDF document)
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