| Official Name: | Colmenarejo |
| Pushpin Map: | Spain |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain. |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Spain |
| Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
| Subdivision Name1: | Madrid |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Fernando Juanas |
| Leader Party: | PP |
| Area Total Km2: | 31.7 |
| Elevation M: | 899 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Website: | www.ayto-colmenarejo.org |
Colmenarejo (pronounced as /es/) is a Spanish town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, located in the northwest of the region, in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 899 meters high and 37 kilometers away from the capital. It is bordered to the north by El Escorial, to the east by Galapagar, to the south by Villanueva del Pardillo and to the west by Valdemorillo. Its only road access is the M 510, from Galapagar or from Valdemorillo. It has in its municipality with the east bank of the reservoir of Valmayor, second in capacity of the Region of Madrid, with the third Campus of the University Carlos III of Madrid and with an attractive natural environment, where you can go for walks with a bicycle, within the Regional Park of the middle course of the Guadarrama River and its surroundings, in which stand out the holm oaks and pastures of cattle use dotted with junipers, ash trees and gall oaks.
Colmenarejo´s Town Hall is represented by 13 councillors, elected by universal suffrage every four years. The municipal council is chaired by the mayor and operates in plenary sessions and through commissions.
The current distribution of the councillors, after the municipal elections held in May 2023, is as follows:[1]
Political parties in the Town Hall of Colemnarejo 2023 | ||||
| Political parties | Councillors | |||
| Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO) | ||||
| Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC) | ||||
The current mayor is Fernando Juanas Cerrada of the PP who governs in coalition with Partido Local de Colmenarejo (PALCO) and Unión y Compromiso Colmenarejo (UYCC), surpassing the absolute majority.
| Mayor | Office started | Office ended | Party affiliation | ||||
| Benito Elvira García | 1979 | 1995 | |||||
| Julio García Elvira | 1995 | 1999 | |||||
| María Isabel Peces-Barba Martínez | 1999 | 2011 | APIC (Independient) | ||||
| Nieves Roses Roses | 2011 | 2019 | |||||
| Miriam Polo Fernández | 2019 | January 2023 | |||||
| Nieves Roses Roses | January 2023 | June 2023 | |||||
| Fernando Juanas Cerrada | 2023 | - | |||||
http://gestiona.madrid.org/download/ficha_u1EK2.pdf.
It hosts a campus of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.