Fuenlabrada

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Fuenlabrada municipality
Plaza de la Constitución in Fuenlabrada
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Comarca :	Area metropolitana de Madrid
Coordinates	40 ° 17 ′  N , 3 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 17 ′  N , 3 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	664  msnm
Area :	39.1 km²
Residents :	193,700 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density :	4,953.96 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	E-28940 to E-28947
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28058
administration
Mayor :	Francisco Javier Ayala Ortega ( PSOE )
Website :	www.ayto-fuenlabrada.es
Location of the municipality

Fuenlabrada is a city in Spain . It is located in the autonomous community of Madrid and in the metropolitan area of Madrid , about 20 km south of the Spanish capital. The city has 193,700 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and a very young population structure. Like the urban system south of Madrid, Fuenlabrada has grown rapidly since the 1970s and has grown from a village of 2,000 to a satellite city. In Fuenlabrada there is a campus of the University of Rey Juan Carlos .

history

The place name Fuenlabrada is derived from the Spanish fuente labrada (roughly edited source ). The oldest evidence of the village, which was founded in the 14th century, is a list of prices for wheat, flour and bread from 1571.

In the 1940s the place had just under 2,800 inhabitants, in 1985 the place had grown into a large city with 117,000 inhabitants.

traffic

Fuenlabrada train station

Fuenlabrada has two stations on the C-5 of the Cercanías Madrid, Fuenlabrada and La Serna . At the Fuenlabrada train station you can change to Fuenlabrada Central on line 12 of the Madrid Metro , which opened in 2003 and which in Fuenlabrada serves four other stops in Fuenlabrada with Loranca , Hospital de Fuenlabrada , Parque Europa and Parque de los Estados .

Sports

The basketball club Baloncesto Fuenlabrada has been an integral part of the ACB league , the highest Spanish basketball league , for years . The football club CF Fuenlabrada will appear in the second-rate Segunda División for the first time in the 2019/20 season .

Town twinning

•  Joal-Fadiouth , Senegal
•  San Juan del Río Coco , Nicaragua (since 1988)

sons and daughters of the town

• Fernando Torres (* 1984), Spanish soccer player
• Roberto Jiménez Gago (* 1986), Spanish football player

Web links

Commons : Fuenlabrada  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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).
2. ^ Jairo J. García Sánchez: La Comunidad de Madrid y sus topónimos (IV). Online at the Instituto Cervantes . January 28, 2008, accessed July 31, 2019 (Spanish).
3. ↑ Tu ciudad · Historia de Fuenlabrada on the Fuenlabrada website, accessed on July 31, 2019 (Spanish).
4. ↑ Fernando Naira: Fuenlabrada recorre en imágenes su historia a lo largo del siglo XX . In: El País . January 28, 1999, accessed July 31, 2019 (Spanish).
5. ^ Cooperación al desarrollo: Joal-Fadiouth
6. ↑ Alcaldes nicaragüenses se interesan por proyectos medioambientales de Fuenlabrada on the Fuenlabrada website, May 21, 2009, accessed on July 31, 2019 (Spanish).