Cañada de la Cruz is a small village of Spain, belonging to the municipality of
Moratalla
Moratalla is a small town and the center of a large municipality of the same name in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain. In 2018, the population of Moratalla was 7,944: some 5,600 in the town of Moratalla itsel ...
, in the
Region of Murcia
The Region of Murcia (, ; ; ) is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain located in the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast. The region is in area and had a popul ...
.
It lies at metres above sea level, on the southern foothills of ''Los Revolcadores'' (2,027 m),
part of the ''Sierra de Moratalla'' mountain range.
To the north of the settlement there is a site displaying cave art paintings.
As late as the 1420s (battle of ''Puerto del Conejo''), skirmishes took between Castile and Granada following the break of the truces place in the area.
By the late 2010s, Cañada de la Cruz had a population of about 150 in the Winter (reportedly increasing tenfold in the Summer).
In 2018, parallel to an alleged "abandonment" of the village on the part of the municipality of Moratalla, a number of neighbors of Cañada de la Cruz reportedly sought to initiate a process to become independent from Moratalla and becoming part of
Caravaca or
Puebla de Don Fadrique (the latter 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 Tropi ...
) instead.
References
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Populated places in the Region of Murcia