The Almendra Central () is a zone of Madrid comprising seven districts: Centro, Arganzuela, Retiro, Salamanca, ChamartÃÂn, Tetuán, and ChamberÃÂ, (even though, sometimes, the City Council of Madrid includes part of an eighth, Moncloa-Aravaca, specifically the Argüelles yard, all inside the M30 motorway.
In 1975 1,153,730 people lived there, but since the 1990s, population has decreased steadily: in 2000 there were 915,318 inhabitants and in 2011 847,686.