El Palmar, Murcia

El Palmar is a village and the most populated district in Murcia, Spain. It is part of the municipality of Murcia. 24,266 people resided in the territory in 2020.
There are two hypothesis about the district name. According to the first one, the name is due to the presence of palm trees and European fan palms. The other hypothesis consists in "El Palomar" phrase, which appears in historic documents of the 16th century, as the origin of the toponym.
Geography.
This territory is located in the foothill of the mountain pass Puerto de la Cadena. There is distance of 5 km from El Palmar to the capital of the municipality (the city of Murcia).
History.
There is evidence about the Roman presence in this territory in the Roman Hispanian era. The evidence consists in archaeological remains of a Roman hamlet whose date is the 2nd century BC.
During the Middle Ages a castle named La Asomada was built in the 12th century.
There was an increase in the population in the 17th century. As a consequence, the locality obtained the status of "villa".
As the Spanish Constitution of 1812 came into effect, the current district obtained the own municipality. When the king Ferdinand VII recovered the crown, the independence was removed. The district recovered the own municipality during the Trienio Liberal (1820–1823). When the period ended El Palmar started to belong to Murcia again.
Demographics.
18.22% inhabitants are foreigners – 1.72% come from other countries of Europe, 13.72% are Africans, almost 2.3% are Americans, and 0.47% are Asians. The table below shows the population trends of the territory.