page_title: Archena
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Archena / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Español: Balneario de Archena Murcia
context_page_description: Archena is a municipality of Spain in the autonomous community and province of Murcia. It has a population of 18,496 and an area of 16.5 km². It is 24 km away from the provincial capital, Murcia.
  Archena is home to a hot water mineral spa dating back to Roman times and has 3 hotels built around it. Whilst undergoing recent development, further Roman ruins were found on the site of the spa.
context_section_description: The main source of wealth in Archena is agriculture: 1.403 hectares of the town are used as farming lands where fruit trees predominate. The second source of income is industry: Archena has an industrial estate called "La Capellanía", where most of the companies work in manufacture, trade and rebuilding. A third source of income is tourism: Archena has representative examples of cultural heritage such a museums, churches, a theatre, etc. But doubtless the most important source of tourism is the Balneario de Archena water spa, which is 2.000 years old and offers its thermal waters to its visitors. It is probably the most popular place in Archena.
  The number of unemployed people in 2018 is 1.221, having descended since the previous year.
caption: Archena's spa
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