Cañada de la Cruz
Population unit
Cañada de la Cruz is located in Spain
Cañada de la Cruz
Cañada de la Cruz
Coordinates: 38°01′51″N 2°16′46″W / 38.03083°N 2.27944°W / 38.03083; -2.27944
CountrySpain
RegionRegion of Murcia
MunicipalityMoratalla
Elevation
1,273 m (4,177 ft)

Cañada de la Cruz is a small village of Spain, belonging to the municipality of Moratalla, in the Region of Murcia.

It lies at 1,273 metres (4,177 ft) metres above sea level,[1] on the southern foothills of Los Revolcadores (2,027 m),[2] part of the Sierra de Moratalla mountain range.[3]

To the north of the settlement there is a site displaying cave art paintings.[2]

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.[4][5]

By the late 2010s, Cañada de la Cruz had a population of about 150 in the Winter (reportedly increasing tenfold in the Summer).[6] 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) instead.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Datos Básicos". Region of Murcia.
  2. 1 2 Mateo Saura, Miguel Ángel. "El conjunto de arte rupestre del abrigo de la Fuente, Cañada de la Cruz (Moratalla, Murcia)". Memorias de Arqueología: 50–51.
  3. ↑ "Posibilidades de captación de agua subterráneas a las pedanías de Cañada de la Cruz y Los Odres del término municipal de Moratalla (Murcia)" (PDF). Instituto Geológico y Minero de España.
  4. ↑ Sánchez Romero, Gregorio (2009). "Ensayo histórico sobre los caminos de la Vera Cruz de Caravaca" (PDF). Murgetana (121): 31–64. ISSN 0213-0939.
  5. ↑ Marín Ruiz de Assín, Diego (2014). "Algunas notas sobre el diezmo y medio diezmo de lo morisco en la frontera murciano-granadina. El Puerto de Caravaca". Miscelánea Medieval Murciana. Murcia: Editum. 38. doi:10.6018/j246451.
  6. 1 2 Sánchez, Fernando (5 October 2018). "Cañada de la Cruz quiere independizarse de Moratalla". La Opinión de Murcia.
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