Puentes Viejas

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Puentes Viejas
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Municipal location within the Community of Madrid.
Coordinates: 41°04′00″N3°31′00″W / 41.0667°N 3.5167°W / 41.0667; -3.5167
CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous community Community of Madrid
Population
 (2018) [1]
  Total
642
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Puentes Viejas ("Old Bridges") is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. In 2022, it had a population of 697. [2]

Puentes Viejas was formed in 1975 by combining three existing municipalities: Manjirón (which absorbed the Cinco Villas municipality in 1850), Paredes de Buitrago and Serrada de la Fuente. The name of the newly created municipality came from the nearby reservoir called Puentes Viejas.

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References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. "Madrid: Población por municipios y sexo. (2881)". INE (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2023-10-11.