Puerto Lumbreras

Puerto Lumbreras municipality
Puerto Lumbreras - castle mounds and cave dwellings
coat of arms	Map of Spain
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Murcia
Comarca :	Alto Guadalentin
Coordinates	37 ° 34 ′  N , 1 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 34 ′  N , 1 ° 48 ′  W
Height :	455  msnm
Area :	144.81 km²
Residents :	15,394 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	106.3 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	30890
Municipality number  ( INE ):	30033
administration
Website :	Puerto Lumbreras

Puerto Lumbreras is a southern Spanish city and one of the main town, a small town (Esparragal) , a village (Puerto Adentro) , a hamlet (Cabezo de la Jara) and some individual farms (fincas) existing municipality ( municipio ) with 15,394 inhabitants ( January 1, 2019) in the autonomous community of Murcia . Until 1958, Puerto Lumbreras belonged to the municipality of Lorca, about 20 km northeast .

location

The city of Puerto Lumbreras is located in the valley of the mostly dried up Rambla de Nogalte a good 95 km (driving distance) southwest of the city of Murcia at an altitude of approx. 455  m ; the highest point in the municipality is around 1250  m . The climate in winter is temperate, while in summer it is warm to hot; the low amounts of precipitation (approx. 330 mm / year) fall - with the exception of the almost rainless summer months - distributed over the whole year.

Population development

year	1857	1900	1960	2000	2017
Residents	-	-	7,080	10,859	15,020

The continuous increase in population in the last few decades is mainly due to the ongoing immigration from the rural area and from Morocco .

economy

For centuries, the region around Puerto Lumbreras was oriented towards agriculture, whereby today , in addition to the cultivation of numerous almond and olive trees , greenhouse crops for vegetables and flowers are particularly important. Small traders, craftsmen and service companies of all kinds have settled in the village.

history

Prehistoric, Iberian , Roman and Visigoth finds are sparse. In the years 711-756 the area around Lorca belonged to the largely independent kingdom of Todmir , which only went up in 756 in Al-Andalus . As part of the Christian reconquest ( reconquista ) , the Castilians came under Alfonso IX. (r. 1188-1230) to Murcia and conquered Lorca in 1224. It is not known whether a forerunner of today's Puerto Lumbreras already existed. The Taifa Kingdom of Murcia, which has been virtually independent since the end of the Caliphate of Córdoba (1031) , was then converted into a Christian kingdom , which was, however, closely linked to the Crown of Castile , but came under Aragonese rule from 1296 to 1304 . After that of Philip III. (ruled 1598–1621) and his first minister, the Duke of Lerma , ordered the expulsion of the last Moors ( moriscos ) at the beginning of the 17th century, the population of the region declined significantly.

Attractions

Fuente de los Caños

Ermita de los Manchones

• The origins of the Castillo de Nogalte probably date back to the Islamic period. In the 13th and 14th centuries it was expanded by the Christians and served as a bulwark against the neighboring emirate of Granada . With its conquest in 1492, it lost its strategic importance and fell into disrepair. It was restored towards the end of the 20th century.
• Some cave dwellings (casas cueva) have been driven into the castle hill , in which the first inhabitants of the place probably lived. The chimneys in the respective kitchens are remarkable.
• Construction of the Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario began in 1724, but the church was not completed until 1820. Even after that, a number of structural changes were made. The nave (nature) has side chapels and stitch cap arched .
• The fountain system of the Fuente de los Caños is first mentioned in the 18th century. It was fed by the subterranean watercourse of the Rambla de Nogalte , which was destroyed in a catastrophic flood in 1973. Today the system is connected to the municipal water supply.

Surroundings

• The Ermita de los Manchones is a building from the 18th and / or 19th century and probably formerly belonged to the neighboring finca.
• The Molino de Béjar was in operation until the early 20th century.
• At the approx. 1250 m high hamlet of Cabezo de la Jara there is a small observatory.

Web links

Commons : Puerto Lumbreras  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Puerto Lumbreras, tourism site - photos + brief information (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - various dates
3. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - climate tables
4. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - Population Development
5. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - History
6. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - Castillo
7. ↑ Puerto Lumbreras - Church