What is plotted on the Costa Cálida map

The map carries 14 places on this coast: 6 towns, 4 historic sites, 1 village, 1 natural park, 1 museum, 1 viewpoint. They span roughly 84 km in a straight line, from San Pedro del Pinatar in the north to Águilas in the south.

The Costa Cálida coast, north to south

Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.

By what you are looking for

Town (6): San Pedro del Pinatar, Los Alcázares, La Manga del Mar Menor, Cartagena, Puerto de Mazarrón, Águilas

Historic site (4): Roman Theatre of Cartagena, Cartagena Cathedral, Castillo de San Julián, Phoenician Shipwrecks of Mazarrón

Village (1): Cabo de Palos

Natural park (1): Calblanque

Museum (1): National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology

Viewpoint (1): Gredas de Bolnuevo

Which comarca each place sits in

This coast is not one administrative unit. These are the comarques the mapped places belong to, which is also how local signage and bus networks are organised.

• Mar Menor (5): San Pedro del Pinatar, Los Alcázares, La Manga del Mar Menor, Cabo de Palos, Calblanque
• Bajo Guadalentín (2): Puerto de Mazarrón, Gredas de Bolnuevo
• Campo de Cartagena (1): Cartagena
• Alto Guadalentín (1): Águilas

How to read the map

Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.

For the coast written up as a single read, see the Costa Cálida guide or the region page.

How to use this map

The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.

Town guides on this coast

• Alcantarilla — the Huerta ethnology museum
• Alhama de Murcia — an old thermal-spa town with a hilltop castle and gateway trails
• Archena — The Balneario de Archena has taken the waters since Roman times
• Caravaca de la Cruz — a perpetual Jubilee holy city with a castle-basilica
• Cehegín — red-marble heritage, manorial old town and pilgrimage neighbour Caravaca de la Cruz
• Cieza — a Murcia Segura-valley town famous for its spring floración blossom
• Fuente Álamo de Murcia — the San Agustín church, dry climate and countryside near the Mar Menor
• Jumilla — a Murcia Altiplano wine town famous for Monastrell reds
• La Unión — 19th-century mines you can tour
• Las Torres de Cotillas — A Murcian huerta town where the Segura and Mula rivers meet
• Lorca — an inland Murcia town crowned by the Fortress of the Sun
• Molina de Segura — a Murcia riverside town of huerta and theatre, near the Ricote Valley
• Mula — Holy Week tamboradas drumming, thermal baths and Neolithic heritage
• Murcia — the Baroque cathedral, the Real Casino
• San Javier — warm shallow Mar Menor beaches at Santiago de la Ribera
• Santomera — A lemon-growing town east of Murcia city, with a Moorish watermill
• Torre-Pacheco — an inland Murcia town minutes from the Mar Menor lagoon
• Totana — a gateway to the forested Sierra Espuna mountains, a strong pottery tradition
• Yecla — a Murcia Altiplano wine town of Monastrell reds

For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.