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Historic border of Macisvenda

Abanilla, Oriental, Murcia

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Historic border of Macisvenda

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Macisvenda, a district of Abanilla in the Murcian comarca of Oriental, marked in Antiquity the border between the kingdoms of Aragón and Castile. After the Christian conquest, the territory passed in 1281 to the lordship of Ramón de Rocafull, in 1434 to the Order of Calatrava, and reached the status of a town in 1501 under the Catholic Monarchs. It now has 623 inhabitants (2024) and preserves the parish of San Juan Bautista, built in the early 20th century. It is crossed from north to south by the Chícamo river, which rises in the Quibas aquifer and is declared a Site of Community Importance and a Site of Geological Interest, in a semi-arid landscape of scrubland, date palms, rosemary and thyme.

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