Algatocín is a town Malaga Travel Pictures

Algatocín is a town Malaga Travel Pictures

Algatocín is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The municipality is situated approximately 143 kilometres from Málaga capital and 30 from Ronda. It has a population of approximately 1,000 residents. The Genil Valley is a wonderful landscape of white houses speckled across the hill known as the Loma del Fraile, and the urban layout owes its origins to the Moorish past. The houses and the streets are built on ground that rises and falls with the landscape, narrow and sinuous, with the low houses all whitewashed. There are also some 18th century houses with imposing entrances.

There are two separate kinds of agricultural activity in two different areas of the municipality: the first in the higher part of the Guadiaro Valley called Salitre, which is rich in irrigation water and therefore suitable for certain types of crop, and the the second in the Genal Valley itself, an area covered in oak, cork, pine, olive, almond, fig and chestnut trees, suitable mainly for the cultivation of fruit. There is also an abundance of aromatic plants here, like rock rose, thyme and rosemary, along with a number of medicinal plants like eucalyptus and lemon balm.