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“Drug clans take control in shanty town where Madrid's politicians fear to tread,”
The Guardian (16 November 2009). Retrieved 28-04-2013.
Cañada Real is a shanty town in the Madrid Region
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 ...
of Spain, a linear succession of informal housing following a 14.4-kilometre-long stretch of the drovers' road
A drovers' road, drove ''roador droveway is a route for droving livestock on foot from one place to another, such as to market or between summer and winter pasture (see transhumance). Many drovers' roads were ancient routes of unknown age; ot ...
connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. The largest illegal settlement in a European city, it extends through the municipalities of Coslada
Coslada () is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain.
The is located in Coslada, which has become a major logistics hub in the country. Due to the area's close proximity to the Madrid–Barajas Airport ...
, Rivas-Vaciamadrid
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and Madrid
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.
Location
Cañada Real is situated on the Cañada Real Galiana, one of the traditional cattle roads running fromLa Rioja
La Rioja () is an autonomous community and province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. Its capital is Logroño. Other cities and towns in the province include Calahorra, Arnedo, Alfaro, Haro, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, an ...
to Ciudad Real and close to the M50 motorway, Madrid's third outer ring road. The irregular settlement features both high-end detached houses as well as pockets of extreme poverty. The initial settlement, started in the 1950s and 1960s was built on what currently forms part of the Coslada urban centre; many of the residents later bought the land from the State. It is considered the largest illegal settlement in a European city.
The Cañada Real is divided into 6 subsectors: the Sector 1 (the first 0.52-kilometre-long stretch in Coslada, ending at the limit with Madrid at the M-45), the Sector 2 (1.8-kilometre-long; between the M-45 and the M-203), the Sector 3 (0.73-kilometre-long; between the M-203 and the M-823), the Sector 4 (2-kilometre-long; between the M-823 and the ''Camino de la Partija y Santísimo''), the Sector 5 (1.45-kilometre-long; between the ''Camino de la Partija y Santísimo'' and the A-3) and the Sector 6 (6.7-kilometre-long; the last stretch in Madrid, going from the A-3 to the municipal border with Getafe
Getafe () is a municipality and a city in Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. , it has a population of 180,747, the region's sixth most populated municipality.
Getafe is located 13 km south of Madrid's city centre, within a flat ar ...
). The Sector 6 is considered a "supermarket" for drug users.
Population
With around 8,048 inhabitants and 2,650 houses as of 2012, the Cañada Real was considered at the time to be the largest shanty town inSouthern Europe
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. The population is mixed. It mostly houses both Spanish Romani
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and irregular migrants (mainly from Morocco
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).on ''
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Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Mo ...
'' website As of 2017, it had a population of 7,283.
Crime
Valdemingómez, a quarter in the centre of Cañada Real, is controlled by drug gangs, and is scarred by violence. Drug users from around Madrid frequent this quarter to visit the drug markets.Giles Tremlett“Drug clans take control in shanty town where Madrid's politicians fear to tread,”
The Guardian (16 November 2009). Retrieved 28-04-2013.
See also
*Squatting in Spain
Squatting in Spain refers to the occupation of unused or derelict buildings or land without the permission of the owner. In Francoist Spain migrant workers lived in slums on the periphery of cities. During the Spanish transition to democracy, res ...
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