Puente de Vallecas

Puente de Vallecas (District 13) lies in the south-east of Madrid, bounded by the M-30 to the west, the A-3 to the north, the Madrid–Zaragoza railway and the M-40 to the south-east and the river Manzanares to the south-west. It grew from the former municipality of Vallecas, which was absorbed by Madrid. With about 240,900 residents, it is one of the city's most populous districts.

Its six wards are Entrevías, San Diego, Palomeras Bajas, Palomeras Sureste, Portazgo and Numancia.

• San Diego and Numancia form the historic core of Puente de Vallecas; Palomeras Bajas, home to the Assembly of Madrid (the regional parliament), is one of the most populous wards in the city.
• The district has an active community life: neighbourhood associations, a children's and youth day organised by local groups, and the summer Batalla Naval during the Fiestas del Carmen.
• It is home to the Rayo Vallecano football club's stadium and to the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's Campus Sur.

• Metro line 1 runs under Avenida de la Albufera with seven stations: Puente de Vallecas, Nueva Numancia, Portazgo, Buenos Aires, Alto del Arenal, Miguel Hernández and Sierra de Guadalupe.
• Cercanías lines C-2, C-7 and C-8 at Asamblea de Madrid-Entrevías, El Pozo and Vallecas.

Mostly flats in apartment blocks. Asking rents are among the lowest in the city.

Wikipedia lists 32 early childhood centres (13 public), 25 public primary schools, eight secondary schools and 23 private schools in the district, as well as 12 health centres. The Cerro del Tío Pío, a hill often used as a film location, is in the Numancia ward.