A-44 / E 902 connects the coastal municipality of Motril to the inland town of Bailén.

From La Gorgoracha it runs parallel to the old N-323, but to the east of Velez de Benaudalla heading Rules dam (the old, and still existing section of the N-323 between Motril and Izbor, heads up the gorge of the Rio Guadalfeo into the Valle de Lecrin with Las Alpujarras to the east).

The road heads north through the Sierra de Lucena by the Puerto del Carretero (1,040 m).

The latest section Ízbor-Motril was finished in August 2008 including a couple of bridges over the lake of Rules dam, before it was finished the still existing N-323 national road was the way to get to Motril from Velez de Benaudalla.

The new section of A-44 / E 902, running west from Granada to divert traffic from the current ring road, was officially opened on 16 December 2020.