Fuenlabrada

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Fuenlabrada is a town and municipality located about 22.5 km south of Madrid in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain. At the outer edge of the metropolitan area of the capital. Madrid's fourth city in population, after the capital, Móstoles and Alcalá de Henares. The name probably comes from Source Fuenlabrada Labrada, a fountain built in the current Loranca village with Fuenlabrada precursor of Fregacedos, by the twelfth century. It is one of the principal cities in the metropolitan area of Madrid, that puts the industry and service sectors. It is one of the municipalities with a younger population in the whole country. This is due to a migration process occurred in the 80s, and the influx of young people looking for housing, the city being so hard hit by the real estate speculation. In no time the town has grown from 18,442 inhabitants in 1975 to 196,318 as of 1 June 2004. Its growth has been spectacular, a 874.6 percent. Fuenlabrada In April 2006 he joined the big cities of Madrid, with the adoption at the meeting of the Large Cities, Fuenlabrada achieves greater autonomy, and therefore a better development for the city and its neighbors.