Mazarrón is a municipality in the autonomous community and province of Murcia, southeastern Spain. The municipality has an area of 318.7 square kilometres (123.1 sq mi), and a population of 31,562 inhabitants in 2019. A military fort (named C1 or Castillitos-small castles) built between 1930 and 1936 during the reign of Alfonso XIII of Spain and the Second Spanish Republic exists as a tourist attraction on the old road between Mazarrón and Cartagena, and although it is accessible from the Bay of Mazarrón it is not in the municipality itself.

The Bay of Mazarrón is sheltered by the last foothills of the Sierra de la Almenara, a mining area since the Carthaginian era. Over 35 km of beaches, unspoiled coves and rocky sea beds. Due to the nature of the surrounding rocks, however, the beach at Bolnuevo is of coarse grit, as are most of the beaches along this part of the coast.

The Torre de los Caballos on Los Caballos peak were built for the town’s protection against pirates from the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries.

Physical geography

Mazarrón is located in the South of Region of Murcia. This municipality borders Cartagena and Fuente Álamo at its east, Alhama de Murcia and Totana and its North and Lorca at its West. In addition, it adjoins the Mediterranean Sea at its south.

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See also: murciaturistica – Mazarrón

Location

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Alhama is located in the Guadalentín Valley, sheltered from the Sierras de Espuña and La Muela.

Defensive towers, castles, remains of ramparts, Renaissance palaces and noble houses reflect the long history of this valley. Urbe that the Arabs and the Romans associated with the hot waters that flowed of the mountain range, this characteristic is the one that is going to give the name to the population, because the thermal size of the bath of Alhama. Continue reading “Alhama de Murcia (Murcia)” →

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Lorca is a city and Spanish municipality belonging to the Region of Murcia, located in the Alto Guadalentín region in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

It is the third population in importance of the Murcia Region after Murcia and Cartagena, with 91,730 inhabitants (INE 2016); of them, 58,825 inhabitants correspond to the urban area and the rest to its numerous districts, distributed throughout the length and width of the 1675 km² of municipal area, the second most extensive in Spain after that of Cáceres.

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Águilas es un municipio español de la Región de Murcia.

Está situado en la costa del mar Mediterráneo dentro de la Costa Cálida en el Golfo de Mazarrón, en la comarca del Alto Guadalentín. Cuenta con 34.706 habitantes (INE 2016).

Águilas es conocida por sus carnavales declarados fiesta de Interés Turístico Internacional en el año 2015. Continue reading “Águilas (Murcia)” →

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Yecla is a municipality and a Spanish city of the Region of the Altiplano in the Region of Murcia.

Located in the northeastern corner of the Region of Murcia, it to the east with the province of Alicante and to the north and west with the one of Albacete. Its population in 2016 is of a total of 34,100 inhabitants (INE).

The municipal term of Yecla has an extension of 607.7 km ². It is located in the extreme north of the Region of Murcia, being bordering land with the provinces of Albacete and Alicante.

The dominant landscape is formed by mountains of moderate altitude, with predominant SW-NE directions, which constitute the structural extension of the external zones of the bética ridges (Prebético), with structures Jurassic style folded and vergence to the north.

The main elevations of Yecla are the Sierra de Salinas (1,238 masl in the Chapel of the Fraile), Monte Arabí (1,068 masl), Sierra de la Magdalena (1,038 masl),

Sierra de las Pansas (1,036 masl), Cerro Picario (1,035 masl) and El Puerto (1,030 masl).

The majority of mountains, which rise above ground level as islands, are more or less forested and separated by wide corridors,
where the crops are located. The main natural vegetation consists of pine trees (Pinus halepensis), more or less dense; the rest form it
scrub or sparty shrub physiognomy and widespread

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