Rosas (or Las Rosas) is an administrative
neighborhood
A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...
of
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 ...
belonging to the district of
San Blas-Canillejas.
It comprises part of the Ensanche Este de San Blas, to the west of the
M-40 as well as large non-urbanised plots to the east of the latter motorway, including a
sepiolite
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extraction site, whose mining below the phreatic level has induced the formation of a series of small lagoons. The former athletics stadium known as La Peineta (currently the
Metropolitano Stadium, the home football stadium of
Atlético Madrid
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) is located in the neighborhood.
It has an area of . As of 1 March 2020, it has a population of 31,953.
References
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Wards of Madrid
San Blas-Canillejas