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Humanes de Madrid

Humanes de Madrid

Municipality in Community of Madrid, Spain

Humanes de Madrid is a town and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid.[2] As of 2019, it has a population of 19,743 inhabitants.[2]

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Geography

Humanes as seen by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2.

The municipality, with a total area of 1946 km2,[2] features a largely flat relief, with the altitude ranging from the roughly 700 metres above sea level of the Cerro del Lomo to the roughly 644 metres of the Arroyo de las Arroyadas close to its confluence with the Arroyo de Valdenovillo del Prado,[3] at the southeastern end of the municipality.

History

Humanes is first mentioned in a 1141 document, when Alfonso VII donated the town to its first Lord.[4] Humanes belonged to the Land of Toledo for the entire early modern period.[5]

References

Citations
  1. [1]
    Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. [2]
    "Datos del registro de entidades locales". Ministerio de Hacienda y Administraciones Públicas. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  3. [3]
    Lorenzo Nieto 2004, p. 21.
  4. [4]
    Lorenzo Nieto 2004, p. 22.
  5. [5]
    Lorenzo Nieto 2004, p. 24.
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