Canencia

Canencia municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Comarca :	Sierra Norte
Coordinates	40 ° 55 ′ N , 3 ° 44 ′ W Coordinates: 40 ° 55 ′ N , 3 ° 44 ′ W
Height :	1144 msnm
Area :	52.7 km²
Residents :	447 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	8.48 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	11th century
Postal code :	28743
Municipality number ( INE ):	28034
Nearest airport :	Madrid-Barajas
administration
Official language :	Castilian
Address of the municipal administration:	Ayu to Canencia ; Pza. Constitución, 1 ; 28743 Canencia
Location of the municipality

Canencia is a municipio in the comarca of Sierra Norte in the province and autonomous community of Madrid . The municipality has an area of 52.7 km² and a population of 447 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) with a population density of 8 inhabitants / km².

geography

Geographical location

Canencia is located at 1144 m in the north-northeast open valley east of the stream of the same name, which flows into the Lozoya river , in the Sierra de Guadarrama . In the west the municipality is bounded by the mountains Espartal ( 1733 m ), Cerro del Águila ( 1663 m ), in the south by La Perdiguerra ( 1766 m ), Puerto de Canencia (pass height 1503 m ), Cabeza de la Braña ( 1772 m ) , Mondalindo / Cabeza del Cervanal ( 1831 m ).

Neighboring communities

Canensia is bordered by the municipalities of Bustarviejo and Miraflores de la Sierra in the south, Rascafría in the south-southwest , Alameda del Valle and Pinilla del Valle in the west, Lozoya in the north, Gargantilla del Lozoya y Pinilla de Buitrago in the north-east and in the east with Garganta de los Montes .

climate

There is a mountain climate at high altitudes . Due to the mountain ranges in the east, south and west, the climate is milder even in summer than in the center of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

population

The proportion of foreigners is less than one percent. 10.71% are 15 years or younger, 38.46% are 65 years or older. This means that the group of addicts is roughly the same as the people of working age.

development

Number of inhabitants
(source:)
year	1850	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2006
Residents	700	458	445	446	441	454	403

Religions

Catholicism is the dominant religion.

history

Canencía, like most places in the Sierra, became after the conquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI. King of León and King of Castile repopulated by settlers from Segovia in 1085. Until 1813 the place belonged to the community of the city and the country Segovia (Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia) and then became part of the province of Madrid. In the middle of the 19th century the population increased to 700. In the middle of the 20th century the pass road was built over the Puerto de Canencia to Miraflores.

politics

The cancers are pro-European. In the referendum for the European Constitution in 2005, 89.23% voted “Yes” with a turnout of 50.91%.

Municipal council

Municipal elections	1987	1991	1995	1999	2001	2007
Izquierda Unida	0	0	0	0	0	0
Partido Popular	3	3	2	4th	5	6th
PSOE	2	2	1	1	0	1
other	2	2	4th	2	2	0
total	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th

Culture and sights

Buildings

Santa María del Castillo Church. Gothic church from the 15th century .
Hermitage of the Holy Christ (Eramita del Santo Cristo) .
The fittings bank. Horses and work oxen used to be shod here.
Fuente Cantarranas. Source where underground water comes to the surface and feeds Canencia.
Old Mill

Regular events

End of January. La Vaquilla (the little cow) .
Holy week . Procession of the Plow (Processíon del Arado) .
Second weekend in October. Virgin of the Castle (Virgen del Castillo) .

free time activities

In Canencia offers a range of leisure activities for tourists and day trippers such as hiking , cycle tourism , horse trails, mountaineering and paragliding .

The Canencia ecological hiking trail (Senda Ecológica de Canencia) , a signposted circular hike of around two hours, begins at the car park of the Canencia Pass .

Economy and Infrastructure

27.5% of the population are members of the Seguridad Social (employees subject to social insurance) . The GDP amounts to € 9,539, which is distributed according to sectors as follows: agriculture 7.95%, industry 37.94% and services 54.11%. 0.93% of the population work in trade, 7% in the hotel industry. There are 503.50 tourists per 1,000 residents. There are 38 hotel places in Canencia.

traffic

Canencia is 83 km from Madrid (distance). The pass road M-629 runs through the valley of Canencia from south (pass) to north (valley entrance from Lozoya valley). The town is connected to Miraflores de la Sierra through the Puerto de Canencia ( Canencia Pass - 1,600 m) in the south . In the north, the M-629 joins the M-604, which opens up the Loyoza valley in an east-west direction. From there to the east you can get to the A-1 motorway . From there west to Rascafría , the passes Puerto de Cotos and Puerto de Navacerrada to Segovia in the north or Madrid in the south.

The bus routes 194 and 195 connect the place with Madrid (Plaza Castilla).

Web links

Commons : Canencia - album with pictures, videos and audio files

www.sierranorte.com Information Canencia (Spanish)
www.guiamadridrural.com Suggested excursions Canencia (Spanish)
www.pueblos-espana.org Overview map

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

↑ ^a ^b Instituto Estatística de Madrid: FICHA MUNICIPAL Canencia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b Instituto Estatística de Madrid: Buscar series por municipio: ( Memento of the original of December 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Statistics database (Spanish) @1@ 2
^ Instituto Estatística de Madrid: Elecciones en la Comunidad de Madrid. Elecciones Locales Results of the local elections 1987 - 2007 (Spanish)
↑ www.continental-auto.es ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Bus company) @1@ 2

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).