The Almendra Central () is a zone of

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comprising seven districts:

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Arganzuela Arganzuela is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. Geography Position Arganzuela is located in central-southern Madrid, separated from Latina, Carabanchel and Usera by the river Manzanares. The other bordering districts are ...

, Retiro,

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, Chamartín, Tetuán, and

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, (even though, sometimes, the

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includes part of an eighth,

Moncloa-Aravaca Moncloa-Aravaca is a Districts of Madrid, district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares River, Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Arav ...

, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.

Population

In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there, but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitantsMartínez Martín, Jesús A. «Madrid, de Villa a Metrópoli. Las transformaciones del siglo XX» ''Cuadernos de historia contemporánea''
2000, número 22: 225-249 Consultado el 1 de octubre de 2011 and in 2011 847,686.

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