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Rivas-Vaciamadrid () is the 15th most populated city in the
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,
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. It belongs to the
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and is located just 15 km from central
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, to the south-east. In the southern part of the municipality, the Manzanares river flows into the Jarama, which is part of the Lower Manzanares and Jarama Rivers Regional Park. Almost three quarters of the municipality form part of the park, making it an important ecological centre with numerous lakes and various species of wildlife and fauna. It has been the fastest-growing municipality in Spain in recent years, growing from 500 inhabitants in the 1980s to its current figure of 100,000. It is bordered to the north by
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and San Fernando de Henares, to the south by
Arganda del Rey Arganda del Rey is a municipality and city of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. Geography Located in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula, the city lies at roughly above sea level, not far from the junction of the Jarama and ...
and San Martín de la Vega, to the east by Mejorada del Campo and Velilla de San Antonio, and to the west by Getafe and Madrid (the district of Villa de Vallecas.) Rivas-Vaciamadrid municipality has the fourth lowest rate of population in risk of poverty, among municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. It is the most populated city in Spain governed by United Left.


History

In 1845, the area of Vaciamadrid, previously part of the village of
Vallecas Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place. Nowadays, the territory is roughly occupied by two districts: Puente de Vallecas (population 240,917) and V ...
, was joined to the town of Rivas, with the unified municipality originally called Ribas de Jarama. The area was devastated during the
Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
and had to be rebuilt in the post-civil war period. In 1954 the name was changed to its current title. At the end of the 1980s the area was designated as a future nucleus for new urbanisation projects under a project titled Rivas-Urbanizaciones (Rivas-Urbanisations). The first developments were those in the current districts of Pablo Iglesias and Covibar. In 2004 the municipal boundary with the city of
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was altered. This involved the transfer of areas known as Covibar-Madrid to Rivas-Vaciamadrid. In exchange, some uninhabited areas in Los Berrocales district were transferred to the Vicálvaro district of Madrid in order to allow the construction of a new housing project.


Local politics

Rivas-Vaciamadrid has always been governed by left-wing parties, mostly United Left, that has remained uninterruptedly in power since 1991. The current mayor is Pedro del Cura, who took office in 2014 after José Masa's resignation, and was re-elected in 2015. However, the 2015 election gave the worst result to United Left (24.5%) since its creation in 1986, due to the big support that the Podemos-linked candidacy ''Rivas Puede'' (Spanish for ''Rivas Can'') obtained (23.3%). Mayors Thorough most of its modern democratic history, the municipality of Rivas has been ruled by United Left, belonging to the so-called " red belt" of the region. No right-of-centre party has ruled the municipality since the Transition.


Transport

The main road serving Rivas-Vaciamadrid is the A-3 motorway, that connects
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with
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. The exits to Rivas-Vaciamadrid are numbers 12 (West), 15 (Centre) and 17 (East). The main public transport in Rivas-Vaciamadrid is the bus. There are four lines connecting with Madrid and three connecting with other municipalities. Moreover, the
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line 9 crosses the city on its way between Madrid and
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, serving Rivas-Vaciamadrid with three stations: Rivas-Urbanizaciones in the west, Rivas Futura in the centre and Rivas-Vaciamadrid in the east.


Festivals

The main festivals are the festival of Romería del Cristo de Rivas (29 September), San Isidro (15 May), the festival of the Communist Party of Spain (second weekend of September) and the festivals of the Urbanisation La Partija on the 15 June. The Miguel Ríos amphitheatre and fairgrounds are also home to dozens of concerts and minor festivities throughout the year


Education

Locally there are 15 kindergartens (6 public and 9 private), 14 public primary education schools, 5 secondary education institutions and two private schools.


Sports

The city has three teams playing at the top level in their respective sports, Rivas Osos in
american football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
since 2000; Rivas Ecópolis plays in the women's
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
top division, the
Liga Femenina de Baloncesto The Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, also known as Liga Femenina Endesa for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level of sports league, league competition for women's basketball in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's Liga ACB and is run by ...
and Dridma Rivas Softball club plays in the Liga Nacional Sófbol Femenino División de Honor, the highest division of softball in Spain


References


External links


Rivas-Vaciamadrid council homepage

Statistics institute of Madrid
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