El Cañaveral is an administrative

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, belonging to the district of Vicálvaro. Created in November 2017 after the passing of the new internal organization of the district on 31 October 2017 by the plenary of the

Madrid City Council The City Council of Madrid () is the top-tier administrative and governing body of Madrid, the capital and biggest city of Spain. The city council is composed by three bodies: the mayor, who leads the city council and the executive branch of it; ...

,: it is named after the ("Program of Urban Action") in the area, which unlike the administrative neighborhood does not extend to the east of the

Cañada Real Cañada Real is a shanty town in the Madrid Region of Spain, a linear succession of informal housing following a stretch of the drovers' road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. The largest illegal settlement in a European city, it extends thr ...

linear shanty town, as the administrative neighborhood also currently comprises the future development of , another PAU. The first neighbors of the PAU installed in 2016. As of 1 March 2020, the neighborhood has a population of 2,565. Once the PAU is fully built it is expected to feature 14,000 housing units. In addition, Los Cerros is tentatively expected to feature 15,000 housing units. The neighborhood is roughly delimitated by the C-2/ C-7 commuter railroads, the R-3, and the municipal borders with Rivas-Vaciamadrid,

San Fernando de Henares San Fernando de Henares is a municipality in Spain, in the province and autonomous community of Madrid. It has an area of 39.9 km2 and 38,904 inhabitants (2022). Its agricultural production includes olives, cereals, vegetables, cattle and wool ...

and

Coslada Coslada () is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It has an area of 11.7 km2. The is located in Coslada, which has become a major logistics hub in the country. Due to the area's close proximity to th ...

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