Guadarrama

Guadarrama is a town and municipality in the Cuenca del Guadarrama comarca, in the Community of Madrid, Spain.

Its population is 13,032; the population swells to approximately 60,000 in summer.

Its name comes from arabic Wadi-ar-ramla river.

Guadarrama achieved the status of "villa" under Fernando V of Castile on November 22, 1504. Fernando VI ordered the building of a road to A Coruña through the Guadarrama Pass, through which passed the Grande Armée with Napoleon searching For John Moore's Army in 1808.