Hoyo de Manzanares Hoyo de Manzanares It has a stable population of roughly 7,457 residents (INE 2008), a statistic that has been increasing consistently from the economic crisis. The population also greatly increases during the summer as a result from various families who own summer houses in the area. This district of Madrid is found inside of the Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares created by the community of Madrid in 1985. The Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares is the oldest and most protected regional park in the community of Madrid. As a result, Hoyo de Manzanares is
Soto del Real it is protected inside the Parque Regional de la Cuenca Alta del Manzanares. It borders with Manzanares el Real on the West, Miraflores de la Sierra on the East, Colmenar Viejo on the South, and Rascafría on the North. Soto del Real encompasses a variety of terrains: mountain tops, slopes, and the Manzanares-Guadalix tectonic pit. The urban nucleus is inside the pit, going through the Mediano, Chozas and Matarrubias streams, which flow into the Santillana reservoir, so they are tributaries of the Manzanares river. Geologically speaking, it is divided into the Mountain range, where there is a predominance of Gneiss