| Cañada de la Cruz | |
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  Cañada de la Cruz | |
| Coordinates: 38°01′51″N 2°16′46″W / 38.03083°N 2.27944°W / 38.03083; -2.27944 | |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Region of Murcia |
| Municipality | Moratalla |
| 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, 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) instead.
References
- "Datos Básicos". Region of Murcia.
- ^ 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.
- "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.
- Sánchez Romero, Gregorio (2009). "Ensayo histórico sobre los caminos de la Vera Cruz de Caravaca" (PDF). Murgetana (121): 31–64. ISSN 0213-0939.
- 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. 38. Murcia: Editum. doi:10.6018/j246451.
- ^ Sánchez, Fernando (5 October 2018). "Cañada de la Cruz quiere independizarse de Moratalla". La Opinión de Murcia.