Carabanchel
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Carabanchel is a district of Madrid, Spain. It lies on the southern (right) bank of the Manzanares, spanning southward down to the M-40 ring road. The district is made up of the neighbourhoods of Abrantes, Comillas, Opañel, Puerta Bonita, San Isidro and Vista Alegre.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Carabanchel
- Settlement.settlement_type
- District
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 12
- Settlement.mapframe point
- none
- Settlement.image_skyline
- (Carabanchel) Palacio Real de Madrid Julio 2016 (cropped).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 14
- Settlement.population_total
- 253,678
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 16524
- Settlement.postal_code
- 28032
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Aut. community
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Madrid
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Madrid
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor-President
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Madrid
- Has part
- Puerta Bonita
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Madrid
- Contains
- Abrantes
- Population
- 262339
- Area
- 14.048315736132
- Body of water
- Manzanares
- Shares border with
- Villaverde
- Official website
- www.madrid.es/portales/munimadrid/es/Inicio/El-Ayuntamiento/Carabanchel?vgnextfmt=default&vgnextchannel=a48aca5d5fb96010VgnVCM100000dc0ca8c0RCRD
- Image
- (Carabanchel) Palacio Real de Madrid Julio 2016 (cropped).jpg
Show 5 more facts
- inception
- 1948-06-08
- Commons category
- Carabanchel District, Madrid
- topic's main category
- Category:Carabanchel
- postal code
- 28011
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Sports
- Geography
- Subdivision
- See also
- References
- External links
Carabanchel is a district of Madrid, Spain. It lies on the southern (right) bank of the Manzanares, spanning southward down to the M-40 ring road. The district is made up of the neighbourhoods of Abrantes, Comillas, Opañel, Puerta Bonita, San Isidro and Vista Alegre.
==Overview== The area was the scene of fierce fighting during the Spanish Civil War -especially in November 1936, during the Battle of Madrid, when Nationalist troops tried to fight their way into the area. Unaccustomed to street fighting, they took heavy casualties. For the remainder of the Siege of Madrid, the front lines ran through the streets of Carabanchel, until Republican Madrid fell in March 1939.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carabanchel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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