Paracuellos del Jarama is a small town and municipality in the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ...

, Spain. It is located northeast from Madrid and very close to Madrid-Barajas Airport. The

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of the name is unclear.Javier Nájera Martínez, Luis Yuste Ricote
Nombre: Paracuellos, Apellido: de Jarama
(Spanish), 3 October 2016, retrieved 10 January 2020. In 1936, it (along with

Torrejón de Ardoz Torrejón de Ardoz () is a municipality of Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. The European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen), an agency of the European Union, is located in Torrejón de Ardoz. It is also the location of the headquarters of ...

) was the site of the

Paracuellos massacres The Paracuellos massacres () were a series of mass killings of civilians and prisoners of war by the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War that took place before and during the Siege of Madrid during the early stages of the war. The deat ...

Transport

Urban lines

* Line 1: Altos de Jarama urbanization - Miramadrid * Line 2: Picón del cura - Los Berrocales urbanization * Line 3: Industrial estate - C.C. San Fernando

Interurban lines

* 210:

San Sebastián de los Reyes San Sebastián de los Reyes (, colloquially called "Sanse") is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located north of Madrid. Geography It forms an urban continuum with the neighboring Alcobendas, Transpor ...

(Infanta Sofía Hospital) - Paracuellos del Jarama * 211:

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

(

Canillejas Canillejas is an administrative neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid, belonging to the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is named after the former namesake municipality, absorbed by Madrid in 1949. It has an area of . As of 1 March 2020, it has a ...

) - Paracuellos del Jarama * 212: Madrid (Canillejas) - Paracuellos del Jarama (Miramadrid) * 213: Madrid (Canillejas) - Belvis * 215:

- Paracuellos del Jarama * 256: Madrid (Canillejas) - Daganzo de Arriba - Valdeavero * 263: Madrid (Barajas) - Cobeña -

Algete Algete () is a town and municipality in central Spain. It lies in the comarca de Alcalá in the autonomous community of the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 20,767 in 2022. Algete is northeast of the capital. Sights include the church ...

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