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Crevillente

Crevillente, officially Crevillent in Valencian, is a town of 30,921 people in the Bajo Vinalopó comarca of the province of Alicante. It lies at the foot of the Sierra de Crevillente, 130 metres above sea level and about 35 kilometres southwest of Alicante. Close to Elche, it forms part of the Alicante-Elche metropolitan area. The land falls from 838 metres in the sierra to 2 metres in the lagoons of El Hondo Natural Park, in the Segura plain to the south. The climate is coastal Mediterranean, with under 220 mm of rain a year and temperatures usually between 5 °C and 32 °C. Its carpet industry earned it the nickname City of the Carpet. Its Moors and Christians festival and its Holy Week are both of International Tourist Interest. Finds at sites such as Peña Negra and El Castellar show settlement from the Upper Palaeolithic through Iberian and Roman times. The AP-7 motorway and the N-340 cross the municipality. The A-7 links it with Alicante and Murcia, and the N-325 runs towards Novelda.