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Villaverde is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.

Villaverde
District of Madrid
Country	Spain
Auton. community	Madrid
Municipality	Madrid
Area
• Total	20.29 km2 (7.83 sq mi)
Population	126,802
• Density	6,249/km2 (16,180/sq mi)
Madrid district number	17

Geography and history

The municipality was absorbed by Madrid in the 1950s as a result of the plans that the Franco government made to simplify the structure of big city administrations. Since then, is a district. It was in those years when it experimented a massive growth caused by the rural flight in Spain. This is the reason that made Villaverde a typical working class neighbourhood.

This condition leaves a heavy footprint in the district, because it has conditioned the current population composition, with many retired people (some of them returning to their towns in Andalusia, Castile-León, ...) and immigrants attracted by the cheap housing prices.

The district is administratively divided into five wards (barrios):

• Butarque
• Los Ángeles
• Los Rosales
• San Cristóbal de los Ángeles
• Villaverde Alto
• [El Espinillo]

External links

Media related to Villaverde District at Wikimedia Commons

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