Villanueva de la Cañada

Villanueva de la Cañada municipality
Town hall of Villanueva de la Cañada
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Province :	Madrid
Coordinates	40 ° 27 ′  N , 4 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 27 ′  N , 4 ° 0 ′  W
Height :	652  msnm
Area :	34.92 km²
Residents :	21,445 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	614.12 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	15th and 16th centuries
Postal code :	E-28692
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28176
administration
Mayor :	Luis Partida Brunete ( PP )
Website :	www.ayto-villacanada.es

Villanueva de la Cañada is a municipality in Spain in the Community of Madrid . In 2019 it had 21,445 inhabitants. It is located about 30 km west of Madrid . East of the city, the Aulencia River flows into the Guadarrama , which later flows into the Tagus .

Education and Research

• The European Space Astronomy Center is located in Villanueva .
• It is also the seat of the private university Alfonso X el Sabio, founded in 1993 .

Town twinning

Sister cities of Villanueva are

• Le Vésinet , Île-de-France , France, since 2006
• Metepec , Mexico, since 1999
• Madaba , Jordan, since 2005
• Royston , Hertfordshire , UK, since 2011

Personalities

Live in the city

• David Bustamante (* 1982), singer
• Jaime Mayor Oreja (* 1951), politician
• María Estela Martínez de Perón (* 1931), 1974 to 1976 President of Argentina

The photographer Gerda Taro (1910–1937) was run over by a republican tank near Villanueva de la Cañada during the Spanish Civil War in 1937 , whereupon she died.

Web links

• Official website of the province

Commons : Villanueva de la Cañada  - 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. ^ Website of the city of Villanueva de la Cañada: Hermanamientos