Fuenlabrada

Fuenlabrada is a city and municipality in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, Spain. It is to the southwest of the region, 22.5 km from the capital, and had a population of 197,836 in 2009. The name likely has its origin in Fuente Labrada. Fuenlabrada witnessed a dramatic population explosion in the 1980s, due to massive scale immigration of younger people coming from the capital city and different agrarian areas looking for affordable costs in housing. By 1975, the municipality had already reached a population of 18,442. Foreign employees have also settled in the metropolis, most of them coming from Latin America, Africa, the Maghreb, China and Romania.

Famous human beings from Fuenlabrada consist of Spain and Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres, and RCD Espanyol goalkeeper Roberto. The first facts approximately Fuenlabrada turned into recorded 200 years after its founding because of an ambitious challenge promoted through Philip II of Spain, the Topographic Relations of Philip II. All the towns, cities and villages received a royal order by means of which they have been obliged to reply an extensive questionnaire approximately the whole thing associated with history, geography, economics, demography, customs.