a town and partido of Spain, province of Almeria, pleasantly situated in a valley of the Sierra de Gador, in the centre of the mining district, nine leagues from Almeria. It is well built, and contains one church, several monasteries, and three primary schools. Pop. 8709, chiefly employed in agriculture and mining. The principal traffic consists in the conveyance of the lead to the neighbouring port of Adra. One mine in the neighbourhood yielded from 1820 to 1841, 3,000,000 arrobas of ore.