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Cehegín

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Cehegín, Spain
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Cehegín's old town, declared a historic-artistic ensemble by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1982, makes for a walkable afternoon in the Murcia region, with a centre well supplied with cafés and restaurants. The municipality sits where the Argos and Quipar rivers cross, and its fertile lands have drawn successive cultures — prehistoric rock art, Iberian, Roman, Visigoth, Arab, and Christian — leaving a layered heritage across the wider northwest comarca.

  • Population15,022
  • Nearest water from center0.5 km
  • Nearest mountain from center5.3 km
  • UNESCO within 50 km92

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