Geography of Alguazas

Miguel Asís Piqueras and Kelly Molina Molina

1.3. Vegetation:

The hot of the summer and the scanty and irregular rainfalls/rains, turn in arid the area. The cultures has contributed to the deforestation and to the sobreesplotación of floors fragile.

The vegetation common of the zone is the thyme and the esparto.

The rivers are zones for tree caducifolos “equal” Black poplars, willows or firs, trought the majority of the fertile lands estan occupied by cultures of garden

1.4. Economic activity The agriculture, industry and services are the most out-standing features of

the economy of the region. The products agrarian are linked to camp and his possibilities On the other hand a great number of laborers of the field and smallholders

support the agrarian as marginal activity, devoting itself as principal activity to the industry or to the services.

In Hinges emphasize the lands cultivated in irrigation, which they suppose mas of 80 % of the whole. They emphasize the intensive culture of garden and of carried to extremes parcelación the fruit-bearing trees suppose 57 % of the surface watered, followed(continued) by 17 % of the citrus fruits, the vegetables and the cultures different complete the agrarian panorama of the region.

The habitat is in the axis of Segura. The region has several plots with an extension lower than a hectare.

The industry of conserve that works gathering and cultivating his gardens.