Calle de Pinos Baja

Before the district was called Valdeacederas, this strip of Chamartín de la Rosa was the Barriada de los Pinos: clusters of shanties and poor houses, without running water or sewers, on land sloping down toward the Manzanares. The settlement was laid out around Pinos Alta and Pinos Baja. The high/low pairing describes the slope, with Calle de Pinos Baja in the low part of the gully, where rainwater ran south. Where the name of the Pinos comes from was never settled: it may point to an earlier pine grove or to the Pinos stream, an intermittent watercourse that ran down this hillside before being channeled. When Chamartín was annexed to Madrid, the district first fell under Almenara and, in 1970, under Valdeacederas. By then the shanties were giving way to modest housing, in years when the area still kept vegetable gardens and empty lots.