Arenas enjoys a lush natural setting, where the streams, oak and pomegranate provide plenty of water resulting in a rich vegetation.

It is a Moorish village where grapevine and olive were the main crops and still are an important element in the landscape and its economy, producing sweet, dry or semi-dry wine.

This is a town very close to the Costa del Sol and the Mediterranean beaches typical of Andalusia and forms a rural and residential tourism that is beginning to develop.

Arenas shares with Canillas de Aceituno, Sedella, and Salares a large area in the Sierras of Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama Natural Park.

Río Seco is the river crossing this municipality, that leads into Torre del Mar y Caleta de Vélez.

The borough of Los Vados can be found in an old road that links Vélez-Málaga with La Viñuela and its urban center is more spread out.

Vegetation: mediterranean scrub, carrasco pine and an abundance of rosemary, matagallos or Phlomis purpurea, junipers and gorse.

In higher grounds, close to Sierras de Tejeda and Almijara we can appreciate diverse specimens such as a conifer called Taxus baccata, maple trees, and Crataegus monogyna Jacq.

After their defeat, the Moorish population of Arenas was expelled almost to its entirety and moved towards Segura de León, in Badajoz.

Another interesting mudéjar church, called Iglesia de la Concepción, and minaret can be found in Dailamos.