Mijas

Mijas

Understand Mijas. Everything outside Mijas Pueblo is called Mijas Costa, the main villages: the more industrial area Las Lagunas that's the most populated part of Mijas and it is totally integrated with Fuengirola. La Cala de Mijas is the main beach resort. Other smaller beach resorts are Riviera del Sol and Calahonda. According to the INE census of 2017, Mijas has 77,151 inhabitants, which makes it the fourth largest municipality of the province. This is concentrated in three main urban centres: Mijas Pueblo, on the hillside of the Sierra de Mijas, the historic centre of the municipality; Las Lagunas, in the area called Mijas Costa, is part of the urban continuum of the city of Fuengirola; and La Cala de Mijas, a coastal town. The surface of the municipal term is of 148 km ² and it extends from the coastal saws of the Penibética to the Mediterranean Sea. Its history dates back to antiquity, with Phoenician and Roman remains, however, in modernity Mijas was a small town dedicated mainly to agriculture and fishing until…

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