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El Espinar is a Spanish population centre and a municipality located 65 kilometres (40.38 mi) away northwest from Madrid city centre, in the northern slope of the Sistema Central mountain range. It belongs to the province of Segovia and to the autonomous Community of Castile and León. The distance from the city of Segovia is 34 kilometres (21.12 mi).
According to the 2025 census (INE), the municipality has 10,409 inhabitants, being 5,258 men and 5,151 women.
The municipality has four population centres that are physically separate from one another:
El Espinar.
San Rafael.
La Estación de El Espinar.
Los Ángeles de San Rafael.
The population centre of El Espinar, the oldest and the most populated one, gives the name to the entire local territory and has the municipality hall's headquarters. As of 2024, these 10,145 inhabitants are roughly distributed in the municipality as follows: 50% of population live in El Espinar, 25% in San Rafael, 15% in Los Ángeles de San Rafael and 10% in La Estación de El Espinar.
The municipality is not part of Madrid metropolitan area, but is not far away from it because its outer ring begins just heading 25 kilometres southeast in Collado Villalba. However, the municipality of El Espinar is part of Madrid's functional urban area as more than 15% of the inhabitants commute daily in Madrid.
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