Alguazas

Alguazas (Spanish: [alˈɣwaθas]) is a municipality of Spain in the autonomous community and province of Murcia and it is located in the south-west of the northeastern quarter.^[2]

Alguazas
Municipality
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Location in Murcia
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Coordinates: 38°3′5″N 1°14′29″W
Country	Spain
A. community	Murcia
Province	Murcia
Comarca	Vega Media del Segura
Government
• Mayor	José Antonio Fernández Lladó
Area
• Total	23.74 km2 (9.17 sq mi)
Elevation	86 m (282 ft)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	9,525
• Density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Demonym	Alguaceños
Website	Official website

Geography

The inhabitants are distributed in the following localities: Alguazas, which is located in the southeastern quarter and had a population of 9,108 in 2020; Las Pullas, which occurs in the north and was inhabited by 137 people; El Paraje, which occurs in the south-east and was home to 183 people; Lo Campoo, which population consisted of 48; El Colmenar, where 8 people lived; Los Pardos, which had a population of 109; and Torre Los Frailes, which was inhabited by 64 people.^[3][4]

Demographics

13.728% inhabitants are foreigners – 2.018% come from other country of Europe, 9.03% are Africans, 2.32% are Americans and 0.297 are Asians.^[5] The table below shows the population trends in the 20th and 21st centuries:^[6]

	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2006	2011	2016
Population	2,579	2,910	3,169	3,349	4,063	4,226	5,079	4,886	5,782	6,931	7,068	8,177	9,288	9,613

Economy

31.8% surface is utilised for crop grow purposes^[7] and the most widely grown products are the lemons, the peaches, the apricots and the tangerines.^[8]17.21% agreements were written for jobs in the agriculture and fishing sectors, 41.26% agreements emerged for jobs in the services sector, 36.649% were written for jobs in the industry sector in 2019^[9] and 47.74% agreements were signed by labourers in manufacture industries in the first half of 2016.^[10]

Facilities

Healthcare

A consultorio (primary care centre with the fewest functions) and a centro de salud (primary care centre) are located in the main town and another consultorio is placed in El Paraje.^[11]

Education

An early childhood and primary education centre (CEIP), a primary and secondary education centre and a secondary education centre (IES) occur in the main town.^[12]

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. "Municipios en Cifras - CREM". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia - CREM (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
3. "Pedanías de Alguazas - Región de Murcia Digital" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
4. "INEbase / Demography and population /Municipal Register. Population by municipality /Nomenclature: Continuous Register Population by Population Unit / Results". INE. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
5. "CREM - Datos Municipales Alguazas – 5. Evolución de la población según nacionalidad". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia - CREM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
6. "CREM - Datos Municipales Alguazas – 1. Evolución de la población según sexo". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia – CREM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
7. "CREM - Datos Municipales Alguazas - 1. Evolución de la distribución general de la tierra". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia - CREM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
8. "CREM - Datos Municipales Alguazas - 3. Evolución de la superficie dedicada a cada grupo de cultivo". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia - CREM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
9. "CREM - Datos Municipales Alguazas - 5. Evolución de los contratos de trabajo registrados según sector de actividad económica. CNAE-2009". Portal Estadístico de la Región de Murcia – CREM (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-03-28.
10. "Cifras de empleo municipal. 2º semestre de 2016. Municipio de Alguazas". SEFCARM.ES - Murcia Empleo. p. 18.
11. "Zona Básica de Salud: 61-Alguazas". MurciaSalud, el portal sanitario de la Región de Murcia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
12. "Listado de centros". Portal de transparencia - Región de Murcia (in Spanish). p. 5. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2021-03-28.