The Comarca de Las Vegas is a informal

comarca A ''comarca'' (, or , or ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, ...

, defined by the ''Guía de Turismo Rural y Activo'', edited by Directorate General of Tourism (Consejería de Cultura y Turismo) of the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munici ...

, it covers some 1378,13

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and is bound geographically by three rivers

Tajo The Tagus ( ; es, Tajo ; pt, Tejo ; see below) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales near Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally west with two main south-westward sections, to e ...

Tajuña The Tajuña (; from the Latin ''Tagonius'') is a river in central Spain, flowing through the provinces of Guadalajara and Madrid. It is a tributary of the river Jarama which in turn is a tributary of the Tagus. It rises in the Sierra de Solorio, n ...

and

Jarama Jarama () is a river in central Spain. It flows north to south, and passes east of Madrid where the El Atazar Dam is built on a tributary, the Lozoya River. It flows into the river Tagus in Aranjuez. The Manzanares is a tributary of the Jaram ...

. The capital is

Aranjuez Aranjuez () is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid. Located in the southern end of the region, the main urban nucleus lies on the left bank of Tagus, a bit upstream the discharge of the Jarama. , the municipality h ...

Municipalities in El Comarca de Las Vegas

The comarca comprises several villages and settlements whose surface area and population in the year 2006 was:. Localización de la Comunidad de Madrid

References

External links

Web oficial de la Comarca de Las Vegas

Asociación de Desarrollo Rural Aranjuez-Comarca de las Vegas (ARACOVE)La Guerra Civil en la Comarca de las Vegas
{{coord missing, Spain Comarcas of the Community of Madrid NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union States and territories established in 1983

Municipalities in El Comarca de Las Vegas

See also

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