Population: 1582

Altitude (m): 606

Jimena is a village in the northwestern of the Sierra Mágina district, with a mountainous south eastern sector which falls under the Natural Park Sierra Mágina. The rest of its municipal area is farm land in which a monoculture of olive trees predominates. Economic activity is based on olive growing and processing, with some complimentary fig trees plantations, harvesting both black figs and the mature fruit. Some outstanding examples of the artistic heritage of Jimena, which we must mention are the Cueva de la Granja cave paintings, where as many as seven groups of schematically style figures, done in shades of red, from the Neolithic period have been found; they were declared to be historical heritage in 1924. We should also mention the castle, built during the late Middle Ages and given to the Order of Calatrava in 1434, and the gothic style parish church of Santiago Mayor, rebuilt in 1960.