It is made up of three neighbourhoods (barrios): Alto, Bajo and Fernán Núñez (locally called La Loma).

Evidence of Moorish occupation can be seen in the Torre del Tio Bayo, an eight-metre-high (26 ft) tower constructed in the latter Nazarí period, about the middle of the fourteenth century.

In the 12th and 13th centuries advances in hydraulic technology were applied to agriculture and the Roman latifundia were superseded by the Arab minifundia system.

During the Andalusian earthquake of 25 December 1884 the village suffered considerable damage, in part due to landslides caused by the topography and soil composition.

[2] Timber, almonds and olives form the main economic activity, on the Sierras de Albuñuelas, which rise to 1426m at Herrero.