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The High Pedanías of Lorca

Lorca, Alto Guadalentín, Murcia

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The High Pedanías of Lorca

Curiosity · Lorca, Alto Guadalentín, Murcia

Image of Lorca, not of the place itself.

Lorca's vast municipal district —the second largest in Spain— organises its northern half into the so-called Pedanías Altas or Tierras Altas, with settlements such as Coy, Doña Inés, La Paca or Zarcilla de Ramos, situated at an average of more than 500 metres amid sierras and dry-farming fields. The area, the former Campo Coy, preserves Neolithic cave paintings beside the río Luchena and Argaric Bronze Age sites; at Coy was found the so-called León de Coy, from the Iberian period. After the Reconquest, Alfonso X the Wise granted the territory to the concejo of Lorca, and in the 14th century the hunting of wild horses or encebras is documented here. Its lead mines, at Coy and Zarzadilla de Totana, came to produce more than twenty thousand kilos of metal that was transported as far as Puerto de Mazarrón.

Photo: Ymblanter (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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