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Six street markets of Madrid with a broken district

In the city street-market dataset, 6 of the 33 have their district field pointing at the generic "Distrito" node, with no real district. El Rastro is one of them: anyone grouping the file by district loses the city's biggest market.

A shutter covered in graffiti at El Rastro de Madrid
Neighborhood fieldEmbajadoresEl Rastro does carry its neighborhood, which is in the Centro districtDataset 202105-0-mercadillos
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District fieldDistricta generic node with no name, in 6 of the 33 street markets in the fileChecked on August 23, 2026, refreshed daily

The six

The 6 records with a broken district, exactly as they come
Street marketWhat the file does carry
Mercadillo de Navidad del Bulevar de Peña Gorbeano usable area at all
Mercadillo en la vía pública UVA Hortaleza (Distrito Hortaleza)no usable area at all
Mercadillo en la vía pública de Parque de la Cornisa (Distrito Centro)no usable area at all
Mercadillo en la vía pública de San Restituto (Distrito Moncloa-Aravaca)no usable area at all
Mercadillo en la vía pública de la calle Santa Genoveva (Distrito Ciudad Lineal)no usable area at all
Mercadillo en la vía pública. El Rastroneighborhood of Embajadores

The broken field is address.district, which in these records ends at the generic /Distrito node instead of at a named district. Checked on August 23, 2026; the dataset refreshes daily, so it may heal at source.

What holds and what does not

El Rastro's neighborhood is on file, so its district follows without difficulty, and this site places it in Centro that way. What does not work is using the file's district field as a grouping key: it loses 6 street markets. It says nothing about the markets themselves, only about the file.

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