Fuenlabrada ( spanish pronunciation : [ fwenlaˈβɾaða ] ) is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. As of 2018, it has a population of 193,586, making it the region ‘s fourth most populated municipality .
Placename [edit ]
The etymology of Fuenlabrada comes from the contraction of Fuente Labrada, Spanish for “ carved fountain ”.
Reading: Fuenlabrada
geography [edit ]
The highest indicate in the municipality ( 721 metres above sea level ) is located in a hill to the northwesterly of the city proper. The city proper ‘s altitude gently decreases from the Northwest to the Southeast ; the lowest areas in the municipality ( slightly over 600 metres above sea level ) are located in the East, past the A-42 near the margin with Getafe. The southeasterly of the municipality is covered by the Polígono Cobo Calleja [ einsteinium ], a huge economic sphere overwhelmingly dedicated to the wholesale distribution of chinese imports ( considered the biggest one in Europe in the latter respect ). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The residential area of Loranca [ einsteinium ] ( 203.6 hour angle in size ) lies in the west, [ 8 ] near Móstoles, semi-detached from the main urban nucleus by the M-407 [ es ] highway. The independent hydrographic feature of speech is the Arroyo Culebro [ einsteinium ], a feeder of the Manzanares. other parts of the municipality ( including the Arroyo de Fregacedos ) are however separate of the Guadarrama catchment sphere .
history [edit ]
There are archaeological sites tracing binding the homo presence in the area to the Paleolithic ( La Cantueña ) and the Bronze Age ( Casas del Cerro ). other settlements in the stream municipal sphere, including Loranca, Albas and Fregacedos, existed during the Upper Middle Ages. The establish of the greenwich village of Fuenlabrada has been tentatively traced to the late fourteenth century, populated by the dwellers of the nearby settlements of Loranca, Albas and Fregacedos, which had been simultaneously depopulated. The first gear mention of Fuenlabrada, which by the early sixteenth hundred was part of the Land of Madrid, was recorded late in the hundred, during the predominate of Philip II, in the alleged Topographic Relations of Philip II. The greenwich village suffered the passing of a quarter of the population in the second half of the eighteenth hundred. While the agricultural sector of the economy remained dominant allele, the make of rosquillas [ einsteinium ] and buns in the municipality became celebrated among the surrounding towns by the end of the nineteenth century. Following the end of the 1936–1939 Civil War, in which some parts of Fuenlabrada endured serious wrong, the Dirección General de Regiones Devastadas undertook some building works in the municipality during the 1940s and 1950s. The population experienced a demographic explosion in the 1970s, going from 7,369 inhabitants in 1970 to 65,181 in 1980, the biggest relative increase in Spain in that time period. The demographic growth continued in the ensuing decades. Since the 1979 municipal elections, the municipality has been a stronghold of the spanish Socialist Workers ‘ Party ( PSOE ) [ 18 ] and has been part of the alleged “ loss swath “ of the Community of Madrid .
transport [edit ]
Roads [edit ]
The city is linked with the M-50, A-42, M-506, M-407 and M-409 highways. It is connected a well to the neighbor towns of Humanes de Madrid and Moraleja de Enmedio through the M-413 and M-405 local roads, respectively.
Metro [edit ]
Fuenlabrada has good ecstasy connections with Madrid, Móstoles, Getafe, Alcorcón and Leganés through the Madrid Metro trace 12 ( besides known as Metrosur ), including five stations : Loranca, Hospital de Fuenlabrada, Parque Europa, Fuenlabrada Central ( transfer with Fuenlabrada Cercanías station ) and Parque de los Estados .
commuter train [edit ]
Fuenlabrada is connected to Madrid via the Cercanías Madrid line C-5, a commuter aim service, having two stations : Fuenlabrada ( Transfer with Fuenlabrada Central metro station ) and La Serna .
demography [edit ]
Fuenlabrada witnessed a dramatic population plosion in the 1980s, due to big scale immigration of young workers coming from the capital city and other agrarian regions ( chiefly Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha, Andalusia and Galicia ) seeking low-cost prices in house. By 1975, the municipality had already reached a population of 18,442. alien workers have besides settled in the city, most of them coming from Latin America, Africa, the Maghreb, China and Romania .
education [edit ]
URJC Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
Primary and Secondary department of education [edit ]
Fuenlabrada has 33 kindergarten and daycare centers, 50 elementary schools and 15 secondary schools .
Higher department of education [edit ]
The Universidad Rey Juan Carlos ( URJC ) has a secondary coil campus in the city, house the faculties of communication sciences, telecommunications engineer, tourism, business administration, among early courses. The National University of Distance Education ( UNED ) besides has a branch here .
Sports [edit ]
The city is home to basketball team Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, presently playing in the first tier division ( Liga ACB ), having competed in the top flight part of spanish basketball for respective years. Their home games are played at Fernando Martín sports center, which has a capacity of 5,700. CF Fuenlabrada is the local anesthetic football team, playing in Segunda División ( second tier in Spanish league ). They play as home team at the Estadio Fernando Torres, inaugurated by the football player ‘s parents on 1 September 2011. The stadium has a capacitance of 7,500 .
Twin towns and sister cities [edit ]
noteworthy people [edit ]
- Roberto Jiménez (born 1986), professional footballer
- Fernando Torres (born 1984), professional footballer
References [edit ]
- Citations
- Bibliography