The Almendra Central (English: Central Almond) is a zone of Madrid comprising seven districts: Centro, Arganzuela, Retiro, Salamanca, Chamartín, Tetuán, and Chamberí,[1] (even though, sometimes, the City Council of Madrid includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca,[2] specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.[3]

M-30 map

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In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there,[4] but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitants[4] and in 2011 847,686.

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  1. ^ "Observatorio Municipal de Vivienda: Boletín Trimestral" (PDF). madrid.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  2. ^ "Un plan estratégico para revitalizar los ocho distritos de la almendra central» Participación ciudadana". madrid.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  3. ^ "La almendra central de Madrid aglutina un bar o restaurante por cada 125 ciudadanos". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  4. ^ a b Martínez Martín, Jesús A. «Madrid, de Villa a Metrópoli. Las transformaciones del siglo XX» Cuadernos de historia contemporánea Archived November 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine 2000, número 22: 225-249 ISSN 0214-400X Consultado el 1 de octubre de 2011

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