Torre Pacheco

Torre-Pacheco is a municipality within the autonomous network of Murcia in southeastern Spain. It covers a place of 189.4 km², and its populace in 2017 changed into 35,198. The simplest excessive floor within the municipality is Cabezo Gordo hill, the area of the protected Sima de las Palomas archeological web site. The town has one secondary training organization, the I.E.S. Gerardo Molina. The territory of the present day municipality has been inhabited because the Lower Paleolithic.

There is proof of career by way of Homo heidelbergensis between 150,000 and 125,000 BC at the Sima de las Palomas website on Cabezo Gordo hill. Neanderthals also lived in the region from 120,000 to 35,000 BC. The sixteen Roman villas found within the place date back to the period of Roman Hispania. The Romans quarried marble from a Cabezo Gordo deposit. Among monetary activities inside the area, fertile soils made it suitable for crop growing and cattle farming.

The first historic references to Torre-Pacheco date lower back to the 13th century. Landowners settling within the place of modern municipality in the Late Middle Ages gave their names to its towns and villages. The Saavedra circle of relatives got here from Galicia, the Roda circle of relatives from Navarre, and the Pacheco circle of relatives from Portugal. On 7 November 1478, the council of Murcia granted land to Pedro Pacheco. The tower and US Property he constructed founded the city of Torre-Pacheco and gave it its call.