The Almendra Central () is a zone of Madrid comprising seven districts: Centro, Arganzuela, Retiro, Salamanca, Chamartín, Tetuán, and Chamberí, (even though, sometimes, the City Council of Madrid includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.
Population In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there, but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitantsMartínez Martín, Jesús A. «Madrid, de Villa a Metrópoli. Las transformaciones del siglo XX» Cuadernos de historia contemporánea 2000, número 22: 225-249 Consultado el 1 de octubre de 2011 and in 2011 847,686.
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Atlas de la Comunidad de Madrid en el umbral del siglo XXI: imagen socioeconómica de una región receptora de inmigrantes en Google Books Recuperar Madrid. Madrid: Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 1982. (Oficina Municipal del Plan).