Large sections of Conan the Barbarian (1982), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lawrence of Arabia and Patton were shot there as well.

Animals found in Cabo de Gata and Níjar include the red fox, the Algerian hedgehog and reptiles such as the ocellated lizard, Timon nevadensis, and the ladder snake.

The Cantoria, Fines, Olula del Rio and Purchena area of the Alto Almanzora valley is fast becoming the regional megalopolis through high imports and exports and employment in local, national and international marble processing.

All the tourist accommodations and construction throughout coastal Spain has driven high demand and brought huge modernisation.

In one of the shelters of the first settlers of the peninsula, the Coat of the Beehives (Abrigo de las Colmenas), there remains a human figure with arms outstretched holding an arc above its head.

According to legend, this picture represents a covenant made by prehistoric man with the gods to prevent future floods.

It is the earliest depiction of the Almerían Indalo, which was named in memory of Saint Indaletius, and means Indal Eccius ("messenger of the gods") in the Iberian language.

It was Luis Siret y Cels, an eminent Belgian archaeologist, who described the rich prehistoric wealth of Almería, particularly that of the Metal Age.

Indeed, Almería is home to two of the most important cultures of the Metal Age in the peninsula: Los Millares and El Argar.

It was a town of more than a thousand inhabitants, protected by three lines of walls and towers, and had an economy based on copper metallurgy, agriculture, animal husbandry, and hunting on a moderate scale.

The rich customs and Fiestas of the denizens retain links deep into the past, unto the Umayyads, the Romans, the Greeks, and the Phoenicians.