The Almendra Central ( en, Central Almond) is a zone of

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comprising seven districts:

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Arganzuela Arganzuela is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. Geography Position Arganzuela is located in central-southern Madrid, separated from Latina, Carabanchel and Usera by the river Manzanares. The other bordering districts are Cen ...

, Retiro,

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, Chamartín, Tetuán, and

Chamberí Chamberí is a district of Madrid, Spain. It is further subdivided into six neighborhoods ( Gaztambide, Arapiles, Trafalgar, Almagro, Ríos Rosas and Vallehermoso). The district junta is headquartered at the . The current urban outline was born ...

, (even though, sometimes, the

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includes part of an eighth,

Moncloa-Aravaca Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Aravaca, Argüelles, Casa de Campo, Ciuda ...

, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the

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Population

In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there, but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitantsMartínez Martín, Jesús A. «Madrid, de Villa a Metrópoli. Las transformaciones del siglo XX» ''Cuadernos de historia contemporánea''
2000, número 22: 225-249 Consultado el 1 de octubre de 2011 and in 2011 847,686.

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