Colmenarejo is a Spanish town and municipality in the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest mun ...

, located in the northwest of the region, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 899 meters high and 37 kilometers away from the capital. It is bordered to the north by

El Escorial El Escorial, or the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial ( es, Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorial en Madrid), or Monasterio del Escorial (), is a historical residence of the King of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, ...

, to the east by

Galapagar Galapagar is a town and municipality northwest of Madrid, Spain, situated in the autonomous community of the Community of Madrid. Of all the towns in the area, it was experiencing the most growth, mostly because of immigration and the conversion ...

, to the south by Villanueva del Pardillo and to the west by

Valdemorillo Valdemorillo is a town and municipality located in the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 12,168 in 2016 It is located 42 km from the capital and 13 km from El Escorial. History Since the late middle ages and up to the early 1 ...

. Its only road access is the M 510, from Galapagar or from Valdemorillo. It has in its municipality with the east bank of the reservoir of Valmayor, second in capacity of the Region of Madrid, with the third Campus of the University Carlos III of Madrid and with an attractive natural environment, where you can go for walks with a bicycle, within the Regional Park of the middle course of the Guadarrama River and its surroundings, in which stand out the holm oaks and pastures of cattle use dotted with junipers, ash trees and gall oaks.

Municipal politic

The current mayor is Fernando Juanas Cerrada of the PP who governs in coalition with Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO) and Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC), surpassing the absolute majority.

It hosts a campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

External links

The official site of the city

References

Municipalities in the Community of Madrid {{Madrid-geo-stub