Data of interest

From the geomorphological point of view, the Municipality of Los Montesinos is located on the southern Neogene edge of the eastern end of the Intra-Betic Trench, constituted in this sector by the Vega Baja del Segura. The structural compartmentalization that this properly Betic domain presents is organized around the aforementioned depression, perfectly delimited and individualized on its northern edge by the Neogene slopes located to the north of the Crevillente-Elche line; while to the south, they are equally Neogene elevations, which, from the so-called Segura fault, mark the dividing line between this course and the small slope basins located further south.

The Municipality of Los Montesinos is articulated around the bed of the Torrevieja Lagoon, an endorheic basin that, together with the neighboring La Mata, is perfectly individualized from the surrounding sectors with clear exorheic roots. This precise delimitation is based on tectonic facts. Indeed, to the North, West and South of these lacustrine spaces, there is a series of uplifted blocks: the northernmost, arranged from East to West, is uplifted to the North by the Segura fault and, in turn, fragmented into two sets (the one at Atalaya-Moncayo, and the one at Escotera de Algorfa); the western one, raised by the so-called San Miguel de Salinas fault, corresponds to the arc-shaped unit that begins in the Cueva Blanca (72 m), culminates in the Hita (237 m.), for, through the Loma Larga (203 m.) and the Pelegrín slope (193 m.), connect with the northern block.

These elevations are basically made up of Neogene materials, although, and due to tectonic action until very recent times, the rise of these positive axes has also affected the Plioquaternary materials, singled out in the calcareous or caliche crust that crops out in the sector. northern part of the municipal area (in El Cabezo and La Herrada, above all).