What is Murcia?
Murcia is a sea-side province, in South East Spain. On the East is bounded by Alicante (Costa Blanca), West by Almera and Granada, North by Albacete, and South by the Mediterranean and a salt lake called Mar Menor. It is fringed by hills reaching their greatest elevation immediately east of Cartagena; northwards from Cape Palos to the Alicante boundary a low sandy tongue encloses the shallow lagoon called Mar Menor. Eastward from the Mar Menor and northward from Cartagena stretches the plain known as El Campo de Cartagena, but the surface of the rest of the province is diversified by ranges of hills, belonging to the same system as the Sierra Nevada, which connect the mountains of Almera and Granada with those of Alicante. The general direction of these ranges is from south-west to north-east; they reach their highest point (5150 ft.) on the Sierra de Espua, between the Mula and Sangonera valleys. The climate is hot and dry, and agriculture is largely dependent on irrigation. A total o
