Collado Villalba

Coordinates: 40°38′N 4°00′W / 40.633°N 4.000°W / 40.633; -4.000
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Collado Villalba
Villalba
Flag of Collado Villalba
Coat of arms of Collado Villalba
Location in the Community of Madrid, Spain
Location in the Community of Madrid, Spain
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityCommunity of Madrid
ProvinceMadrid
Elevation
903 m (2,963 ft)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total57 889
 • Density2.184/km2 (5.66/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
28400
Area code34 (Spain) + 91 (Madrid)
WebsiteOfficial website

Collado Villalba is a municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It is located 39 kilometres north-west of Madrid the capital city of Spain, at an altitude of 917m above sea level. It has a population density of about 2,184.49 hab./km². The climate of Collado Villalba is Mediterranean-continental.

I.E.S Lázaro Cárdenas of Collado Villalba conducts an annual School to School Exchange with Woburn Memorial High School in Woburn, MA USA. It has been managed by Professor Ramón José García Rubio for over 20 years.In addition to this school to school exchange, the municipality has been twinned since 1991 with the French city of Bègles, located in the Bordeaux metropolitan area in Southwestern France. I.E.S María Guerrero of the same town have started to make an exchange with the high school Minervaskolan of Umeålocated 600 kilometres on the north of Stockholm, in Sweden

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40°38′N 4°00′W / 40.633°N 4.000°W / 40.633; -4.000