Colmenarejo facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Colmenarejo
Colmenarejo's Town Hall
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Location of Colmenarejo in Madrid
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Madrid
Area
• Total	31.7 km2 (12.2 sq mi)
Elevation	899 m (2,949 ft)
Population
• Total	KIDDLE_IB
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.ayto-colmenarejo.org

City Hall

Colmenarejo is a Spanish town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, located in the northwest of the region, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 899 meters high and 37 kilometers away from the capital. It is bordered to the north by El Escorial, to the east by Galapagar, to the south by Villanueva del Pardillo and to the west by Valdemorillo. Its only road access is the M 510, from Galapagar or from Valdemorillo. It has in its municipality with the east bank of the reservoir of Valmayor, second in capacity of the Region of Madrid, with the third Campus of the University Carlos III of Madrid and with an attractive natural environment, where you can go for walks with a bicycle, within the Regional Park of the middle course of the Guadarrama River and its surroundings, in which stand out the holm oaks and pastures of cattle use dotted with junipers, ash trees and gall oaks.

Municipal politic

The current mayor is Fernando Juanas Cerrada of the PP who governs in coalition with Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO) and Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC), surpassing the absolute majority.

Political parties in the Town Hall of Colemnarejo 2023
Political parties		Councillors
	PP	6
	Más Madrid Colmenarejo	2
	Vox	2
	PSOE	1
	Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO)	1
	Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC)	1

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It hosts a campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

See also

In Spanish: Colmenarejo para niños