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Brunete

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Brunete

Total population

9,764

Elevation656 m
Land area49 km²
WeatherAvg high 70.1°F
Coordinates40.41°, -4.00°

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City facts

Elevation
656 m
Area
49 km²
head of government
Borja Gutiérrez Iglesias
Official website
www.brunete.org

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Overview

Brunete is a town located on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, with a population of 10,730 people.

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History & geography

History

{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size:13px; float:left; margin:5px" |- style="font-size: small;" | colspan="12" style="text-align:center;"|Brunete during the Civil War |- ! from !! to !! duration (days) !! in control of |- | 18 July 1936 || 1 November 1936 || 106 || Republicans |- | 1 November 1936 || 6 July 1937 || 247 || Nationalists |- | 6 July 1937 || 24 July 1937 || 18 || Republicans |- | 24 July 1937 || 1 April 1939 || 616 || Nationalists |} There was no military garrison in Brunete and there was no rebel attempt to seize the city during the coup of July 1936. Brunete remained in the deep rear of the front, in the summer established in Sierra de Guadarrama, some 20 km to the north. The Nationalist 7. Division approached the city in mid-October 1936, and on 18 October the Republican government declared Brunete within zona de guerra. There was no major fighting reported before, on 1 November 1936, the Nationalist troops seized Brunete. In the summer of 1937 the Republican general staff prepared a diversionary offensive; it was intended to make Franco shift some of his troops from Cantabria and assist the defenders of Santander. The attack commenced in very late hours of 5 July, and on the evening of 6 July Brunete was re-taken by the Republicans; they claimed to have taken 80 prisoners. The Nationalists re-grouped and indeed moved some units from the Northern Front. Following some 2 weeks of fierce fighting, Brunete was again seized by the rebels on 24 July 1937. For the remainder of the war the city remained under the Nationalist control in the rear of the frontline, some 10 km from combat positions at the outskirts of Madrid. In 2013 the local council launched a system to tackle a perceived dog excrement problem, which involved identifying…

Geography

The town is located from the centre of Madrid.

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Geography

Latitude
40.4051
Longitude
-3.9980
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

Avg high
70.1°F
Avg low
50.1°F
Annual precipitation
21.5 in

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
4.7
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,717

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
212
Avg daily Wikipedia views
7
Attention level
Obscure

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Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Open-Meteo (ERA5 reanalysis)
  • • Wikidata
  • • iNaturalist
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Open Library