Madrigueras
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Madrigueras is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Albacete
Albacete
Albacete is a city and municipality in southeastern Spain, 258 km southeast of Madrid, the capital of the province of Albacete in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. The municipality had a population of c. 169,700 in 2009....

, Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha
Castile-La Mancha is an autonomous community of Spain. Castile-La Mancha is bordered by Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Valencia, Murcia, Andalusia, and Extremadura. It is one of the most sparsely populated of Spain's autonomous communities...

, Spain
Spain
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. It has a population of 4,917 according to the official statistics by the National Statistics Institute of Spain (INE). The principal productions of this village are wine, knives and spatulas. Madrigueras is referred to as "Little China" due the great number of inhabitants who use bikes for transportation.

External Links

  • http://www.madrigueras.es Homepage of Madrigueras (in Spanish)
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