Águilas
Águilas is a municipality in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in Spain. It is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Gulf of Mazarrón within the Costa Cálida, in the Alto Guadalentín region, located in the extreme southwest of the Region of Murcia. It has 35,722 inhabitants (INE, 2020).1
Águilas is known for its beaches and the carnival, declared a festival of International Tourist Interest in 2015
Águilas is located 35 km from Lorca, 105 km from Murcia and 75 km from Cartagena. It has 28 km of Mediterranean coastline in the extreme southwest of the Region of Murcia.
The municipality of Águilas is surrounded by a series of mountain ranges that separate it from the Guadalentín valley: the Sierra de la Carrasquilla and the Sierra de la Almenara.
It has part of the regional park of Cabo Cope and Puntas de Calnegre, shared with the municipality of Lorca, as well as the protected landscape of Cuatro Calas on the border of the Region of Murcia with Almería along the coast.
Today, the economy of the town is sustained mainly by summer tourism as a second home and intensive fruit farming.
In Águilas there are three seaports. Two of them are recreational-sports: The Águilas Marina and the Juan Montiel Marina, recently built. In addition to the fishing-commercial port. Currently the commercial use is nil, being transformed into a sports-fishing port located at the foot of the Castle of San Juan de las Águilas and with the Punta Negra lighthouse.