Tres Cantos
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Casa Consistorial (town hall)
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 Tres Cantos
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| Coordinates: 40°35′58″N 3°42′42″W / 40.59944°N 3.71167°W | |
| Country |
 Spain
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| Autonomous community |
 Community of Madrid
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| Comarca | Madrid metropolitan area |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jesús Moreno García (PP) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 37.93 km2 (14.64 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 710 m (2,330 ft) |
| Population (2013) | |
| • Total | 41,896 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,900/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | tricantino/tricantina(s) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal code | 28760, 28761, 28790 |
| Website | www.trescantos.es |
Tres Cantos is a Spanish municipality of the province and Community of Madrid, situated 22 km at the North of the capital. It is a city with a privileged location and has an environment of a huge quality and a high environmental value, because is near of Monte del Pardo, in the south, and in Viñuelas. As a "satellite city" of Madrid which was conceived by urban planners as recently as the 1970s, it is the youngest incorporated municipality in the Community of Madrid, with a population (2012 National Statistics figures) of approximately 41,065. Tres Cantos was the Spanish bid host city for the 2018 Ryder Cup. However, residents showed poor popular support (the event was finally awarded to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France).
The city, as other planned cities, has a peculiar structure. It consists of three phases, each one subdivided (mostly) in different sectors. Most sectors, especially in the first phase (North), include internally pedestrian public spaces, being surrounded by streets. The name of urban places usually are related to the sector where they are (for example, the Sector Océanos has five streets named after the five oceans).
Tres Cantos is a 'new community' or planned township, which was first commissioned by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in 1971 to be established on rural land ceded by the city of Colmenar Viejo. Residential occupation began from 1982, and in 1991 it was incorporated as a separate municipality, the newest in all of Spain. Infrastructure development has continued apace, with a current (2005) 5-year development plan by local government authorities allowing for expansion of up to 60,000 inhabitants. The first mayor of Tres Cantos was Antonio Osuna with an 80% level of support from the population.
Tres Cantos was built on former rural lands, about halfway from the northern outskirts of suburban Madrid to the Guadarrama mountain range, which are frequently snow-capped in winter. It lies in a slight valley formed with two eastwards-flowing creeks, bounded to the south by a higher plateau leading to Madrid, and to the west and north by more hilly terrain, which separates the area from the watershed of the Manzanares River. General elevation of the township is around 680 m, with a highest elevation within the municipality's borders of 730 m. The terrain rises towards the foothills of the Guadarrama range to the north and northwest, reaching elevations in excess of 800 m across the border in Colmenar Viejo. Within the urban area the terrain is gently undulating. It also an enormous new phase where there has been construction of new houses for new people for a long time
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