El lago de las minas de Alquife Nature · Alquife, Comarca de Guadix, Granada Image of Alquife, not of the place itself. The open-pit excavation of the old iron mines of Alquife has become, through the accumulation of groundwater, an artificial lake around 130 metres deep. Photo: Ventura Carmona (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Alquife