Tres Cantos | |
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 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Tres Cantos Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 40°35′58″N 3°42′42″W / 40.59944°N 3.71167°W | |
| Country | Spain |
| Autonomous community | Community of Madrid |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jesús Moreno García (PP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 37.93 km2 (14.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 710 m (2,330 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 46,750 |
| • Density | 1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
| Demonym | tricantino/tricantina(s) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28760, 28761, 28790 |
| Website | www.trescantos.es |
Tres Cantos (Spanish: [tɾes ˈkantos] ) is a municipality of Spain located in Community of Madrid.
Originally belonging to Colmenar Viejo, it seceded from the latter municipality in 1991, becoming the youngest municipality in the region.[2] The urbanised area was conceived as a "satellite city" of Madrid developed by urban planners in the 1970s.[3] It has a population of 48 326 inhabitants in 2020.
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The city, as other planned cities, has a distinctive structure. It consists of three phases and a newer development "Nuevo Tres Cantos". The two first phases are subdivided in sectors. Most sectors, especially in the first phase (North), include internally pedestrian public spaces, being surrounded by streets. The names of urban places are usually related to the sector in which they are located–for example, the Sector Océanos consists of five streets named after the five oceans.
The town hosts a number of Spanish headquarters of companies such as Siemens, Danone, Beiersdorf, advanced research at Merck, GSK, and a chapter of the Spanish High Committee of Scientific Research CSIC.
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Plaza, Analía (15 June 2019). "Tres Cantos: la urbanización que se independizó de su pueblo ganadero con el PSOE es un gran feudo del PP". eldiario.es.
- ^ "About Tres Cantos" (in Spanish). Ayuntamiento de Tres Cantos. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2011.