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Fuencarral-El Pardo

District of Madrid in Spain

Fuencarral-El Pardo
District of Madrid
M-30 ring highway over the district

Country	Spain
Aut. community	Madrid
Municipality	Madrid
Area
• Total	237.81 km² (91.82 sq mi)
Population	220,085
• Density	925.5/km² (2,397/sq mi)
Madrid district number	8

Fuencarral-El Pardo is one of the 21 districts that form the city of Madrid, Spain.

Overview

Fuencarral-El Pardo is the district number 8 and consists of the following neighborhoods: El Pardo (81), Fuentelarreina (82), Peñagrande (83), Pilar (84), La Paz (85), Valverde (86), Mirasierra (87) and El Goloso (88).

Despite its being a part of a capital city, El Pardo with its woods and river is an ecologically important landscape. It enjoyed protection from development as a hunting estate associated with the Royal Palace of El Pardo. In the 1980s the European Union designated the Monte de El Pardo as a Special Protection Area for bird-life.^[1]

Geography

Subdivision

The district is administratively divided into 8 wards (Barrios):

Barrio del Pilar
El Goloso
El Pardo
Fuentelarreina
La Paz
Mirasierra
Peñagrande
Valverde

Education

The new campus of the Deutsche Schule Madrid, in Montecarmelo (ES) in the district, opened in the fall of 2015.^[2]

References

^ "El Monte de El Pardo".
^ "El nuevo Colegio Alemán de Madrid, la mayor obra civil alemana del extranjero" (Archive). La Vanguardia. 9 October 2015. Retrieved on 2 April 2016.