Cañada de la Cruz is a small village of Spain, belonging to the municipality of Moratalla, in the Region of Murcia.

Cañada de la Cruz
Population unit
Cañada de la Cruz
Coordinates: 38°01′51″N 2°16′46″W
Country	Spain
Region	Region of Murcia
Municipality	Moratalla
Elevation	1,273 m (4,177 ft)

It lies at 1,273 metres (4,177 ft) metres above sea level,[1] on the southern foothills of Los Revolcadores (2,027 m),[2] part of the Sierra de Moratalla mountain range.[3]

To the north of the settlement there is a site displaying cave art paintings.[2]

As late as the 1420s (battle of Puerto del Conejo), skirmishes took between Castile and Granada following the break of the truces place in the area.[4][5]

By the late 2010s, Cañada de la Cruz had a population of about 150 in the Winter (reportedly increasing tenfold in the Summer).[6] In 2018, parallel to an alleged "abandonment" of the village on the part of the municipality of Moratalla, a number of neighbors of Cañada de la Cruz reportedly sought to initiate a process to become independent from Moratalla and becoming part of Caravaca or Puebla de Don Fadrique (the latter in the province of Granada) instead.[6]

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