Nature

Fruit orchards, high plateaus, mountain ranges – it’s up to you!

Caravaca landscape stands out for its vegetable gardens, plateaus and northern mountains. The highest peaks can be found in the north and northwest: Sierra de Mojantes (1605m), Sierra de Gavilan(1447m), Cuerda de la Serrata (1207m) and the western part of Sierra de la Puerta. There are several hills and high plateaus below 900-1200m altitude in the west and the south that represent a very complicated topography: Sierra de la Zarza, Sierra Aspera, Sierra de la Pinosa, Loma de las Yeguas, Cerro del Barranco Blanco and Sierra de las Cabras.

In the central and eastern sectors of the local area are located several high basins drained by Argos and Quipar rivers. These basins are full of Tertiary and Quaternary period materials, basically white, shape orchard of Caravaca. Numerous springs complete the local hydrography, such as Las Fuentes del Marques, La Muralla of Archivel, Ojos of Archivel, Las Tosquillas of Barranda and Mayrena.