Archaeological site of Los Millares (Santa Fe de Mondújar, Almería)

The archaeological site of Los Millares is located in the township of Santa Fe de Mondújar (Almería), on a spur-shaped plateau between the gully of Rambla de Huéchar and the River Andarax, 20 km from its mouth.

Los Millares is considered one of the most important Copper Age sites in Europe, as its spa al distribu on evidences an extraordinary degree of func onal complexity for the period in which it was occupied (3200–2200 BC).

It consists of an urban area with four rings of concentric curtain walls, a necropolis with collec ve burials, and a system of 13 outlying forts on both banks of the Rambla de Huéchar that complete the impressive defensive system which controlled the se lement and the surrounding countryside.