Cañada de la Cruz is a small village of Spain, belonging to the municipality of Moratalla, in the Region of Murcia.

[3] To the north of the settlement there is a site displaying cave art paintings.

[2] As late as the 1420s (battle of Puerto del Conejo), skirmishes took between Castile and Granada following the break of the truces place in the area.

[4][5] By the late 2010s, Cañada de la Cruz had a population of about 150 in the Winter (reportedly increasing tenfold in the Summer).

[6] In 2018, parallel to an alleged "abandonment" of the village on the part of the municipality of Moratalla, a number of neighbors of Cañada de la Cruz reportedly sought to initiate a process to become independent from Moratalla and becoming part of Caravaca or Puebla de Don Fadrique (the latter in the province of Granada) instead.