In 1463 the area was referred to as "La Fuente del Alamo" in a dispute over who actually owned the land between the peoples of Cartagena.

In 1500 the council of Lorca, in an effort to assert its authority, started to allocate small sections of land to the population for the use of cultivation.

In 1939 shortly before the end of the civil war, Republican forces sank the troop carrier Castillo de Olite as it was leaving the port of Cartagena.

The average annual temperature is about 18.9 °C (66.0 °F), reaching highs of around 33 °C (91 °F) in July and August and lows of 6 °C (43 °F) in January and February.

[6] The population of the municipality was in steady decline from 1950 until 2001 when it experienced a rapid growth due to foreigners taking up residence in the area.

[8][9][10] In the primary sector, there are largely carried out economic activities such as farming growing and agricultural package, distribution and selling arrangement.

Thirty-six point two percent of the total jobs were about agriculture activities in the fourth trimester of 2018 according to the Spanish Social Security organism.

[11][12][13][14] In the tertiary sector, an economic activity which is present is the land transportation by road, specially with lorries.