Colmenarejo

Colmenarejo
Colmenarejo
	Colmenarejo's Town Hall
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Colmenarejo in Madrid
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Madrid
Government
• Mayor	Fernando Juanas (PP)
Area
• Total	31.7 km2 (12.2 sq mi)
Elevation	899 m (2,949 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	9,124
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.ayto-colmenarejo.org

Colmenarejo (Spanish: [kolmenaˈɾexo] ^ⓘ) is a Spanish town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, located in the northwest of the region, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 899 meters high and 37 kilometers away from the capital. It is bordered to the north by El Escorial, to the east by Galapagar, to the south by Villanueva del Pardillo and to the west by Valdemorillo. Its only road access is the M 510, from Galapagar or from Valdemorillo. It has in its municipality with the east bank of the reservoir of Valmayor, second in capacity of the Region of Madrid, with the third Campus of the University Carlos III of Madrid and with an attractive natural environment, where you can go for walks with a bicycle, within the Regional Park of the middle course of the Guadarrama River and its surroundings, in which stand out the holm oaks and pastures of cattle use dotted with junipers, ash trees and gall oaks.

Municipal politic

Colmenarejo´s Town Hall is represented by 13 councillors, elected by universal suffrage every four years. The municipal council is chaired by the mayor and operates in plenary sessions and through commissions.

The current distribution of the councillors, after the municipal elections held in May 2023, is as follows:^[2]

Political parties in the Town Hall of Colemnarejo 2023
Political parties		Councillors
	PP	6
	Más Madrid Colmenarejo	2
	Vox	2
	PSOE	1
	Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO)	1
	Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC)	1

Mayors of Colmenarejo since Spanish transition

The current mayor is Fernando Juanas Cerrada of the PP who governs in coalition with Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO) and Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC), surpassing the absolute majority.


Mayor	Office started	Office ended	Party affiliation
Benito Elvira García	1979	1995		PSOE
Julio García Elvira	1995	1999		PP
María Isabel Peces-Barba Martínez	1999	2011		APIC (Independient)
Nieves Roses Roses	2011	2019		PP
Miriam Polo Fernández	2019	January 2023		PSOE
Nieves Roses Roses	January 2023	June 2023		PP
Fernando Juanas Cerrada	2023	-		PP

[1]^{[permanent dead link]}.

It hosts a campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

External links

The official site of the city (in Spanish)

References

^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
^ "Results of municipal elections in Colmenarejo since 1979". Ministry of the Interior. Government of Spain (in European Spanish). 2023. Archived from the original on 2022-11-26. Retrieved 16 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)