Rivas-Vaciamadrid

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Rivas-Vaciamadrid municipality
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Rivas-Vaciamadrid Coat of Arms
Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Madrid
Comarca : Area metropolitana de Madrid
Coordinates 40 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 20 ′  N , 3 ° 31 ′  W
Height : 500  msnm
Area : 67.16 km²
Residents : 88,150 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density : 1,312.54 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : E-28521 to E-28524 and E-28529
Municipality number  ( INE ): 28123
administration
Mayor : Pedro del Cura Sánchez ( IU ) (2014)
Website : www.rivasciudad.es
Location of the municipality
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Rivas-Vaciamadrid is located about 15 km southeast of Madrid at the confluence of the Jarama and Manzanares rivers and is the city in Europe whose population has increased the fastest in the last 20 years. On January 1, 2019 it was 88,150, in 1980 only 500 people lived in Rivas-Vaciamadrid.

Today the city is one of the 10 richest places in Spain, namely 7th place. The suburb attracts many new settlers from the metropolis due to the high quality of life and the green, quiet location in the immediate vicinity of the Spanish capital.

Since 1999, the city has been connected to Madrid with metro line 9 . There is also a connection with the Madrid S-Bahn ( Cercanías ) on lines C1 and C2, as well as bus routes (Interurbanos) 331 to 334.

history

The parishes of Rivas de Jarama and Vaciamadrid were merged into one parish in 1845. During the Battle of Jarama in February 1937, the two communities were badly damaged.

The mayor of the municipality, José Masa, has set up an advice center for citizens who want to quit the church. He employs lawyers to provide legal assistance in leaving the Church . Inquiries are now coming from all over Spain, where people are increasingly distancing themselves from the faith for political reasons: the Church is often criticized for being too closely linked to Franquism .

Personalities

  • Sira Rego (* 1973), Vice Mayor from 2015 to 2019, MEP

Web links

Commons : Rivas-Vaciamadrid  - 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).