Colmenar is situated on the most westerly point of La Axarquia only 35 km from Malaga. Colmenar is a real mountain retreat enjoying all the charm of inland Axarquia.
The road from Malaga known as the Carretera de Colmenar brings us through pine woods and beautiful countryside to the Malaga Mountain towns in the most westerly part of the Axarquía. This too is the road to Colmenar, known as the Capital of the Malaga Mountains. On the way into the municipality we see the stone steeple called the Puerta de La Cruz, showing the coat-of-arms of the town as a beehive with seven bees flying over it. A historical scene there brings us back to the year 1488, when the town was handed over by Hamet el Zuque to Francisco de Coalla. Past this we come to the town of Colmenar itself, and looking from here we can see two hills that used to mark the limits between the urban centre and the surrounding countryside.
Area: 65.50 sq. kms
Number of inhabitants: 3,202
Geographical situation: In the high Axarquía, 44 kilometres from Vélez and 35 from Malaga, at 696 metres above sea level.
