Benamaurel is a village located in the

province of Granada Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete, Murcia, Almería, Jaén, Córdoba, Málaga, and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropical ...

, Spain. According to the 2006

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses inc ...

( INE), the city has a population of 2328 inhabitants. The municipality includes the following localities: Puente Arriba, San Marcos, Cuevas de la Blanca, Huerta Real, Cuevas del Negro y Cuevas de Luna. There is a market held every Sunday morning (mainly from vans that go town-to-town) and a 3-day ''Moors and Christians'' festival held in April. The village contains basic small shops and a number of bars, some of which serve meals (although it's worth checking if they are open during the winter months). There is also a municipal outdoor swimming pool that is open from June through to September. The nearest large town is

Baza, Granada Baza is a town in the province of Granada in Andalusia (southern Spain), twice a former Catholic bishopric and now a Latin Catholic titular see as Basti. Modern town It has 21,000 inhabitants (2003). It is situated at 844 m above sea level, i ...

about 20 km south and this is also the route to the main A92N motorway through Granada province to the airports (Granada, Almeria, Murcia and Alicante)

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Municipalities in the Province of Granada {{Granada-geo-stub