Dehesa de Campoamor residential area, Orihuela Costa

Campoamor is next to the beaches of Orihuela Costa, with easy access to the AP-7 motorway.

Campoamor was just another area of Spain’s unspoilt and unexploited coastline until the early 1960s, when domestic and international tourism began to affect the whole of the country’s eastern coast.

The first residential developments were built here in 1963, but it wasn’t until the very last years of General Franco’s régime that the area really took off with a new land use plan being passed in 1972 which enabled Campoamor to start realizing its full potential.

Nowadays the area is populated by a wide variety of different types of accommodation, including individual chalets and villas, each built at different times and with their own unique style and high-rise apartment blocks looking out over the white sand and clear water of the Mediterranean, with pleasant green parks and sports facilities interspersed between the residential areas.

This offers a range of accommodation to suit those looking for permanent residency or a holiday apartment, with a price range to suit most budgets.

There are also a number of bars, shops and restaurants, and the area is well served by chemists and other medical care establishments, although the main regional heath service clinic is located just to the north next to the Aguamarina shopping centre.

The focal point is the Puerto Deportivo, which stands below an outcrop jutting out into the sea, and Campoamor is also within easy striking distance of other beaches and towns due to its location just off the exit from the Autopista del Mediterráneo at kilometre 768. This gives it excellent connections to motorways and airports, both for Alicante Elche and also Murcia san Javier.

Although Campoamor is not endowed with a shopping centre, there are many shopping opportunities no more than a five- or ten-minute drive away. There are small general purpose and food stores within the urbanization, but for the weekly shop it is probably easier to drive to Zenia Boulevard or any of the shopping centres in Aguamarina, La Zenia, Playa Flamenca and Alameda del Mar.

In amongst the residential complexes of Campoamor there are various tennis and padel-tennis clubs, and in the spring and autumn it’s pleasing to see how many visitors from the north of Europe have become hooked on the game of padel-tennis!

Apart from the marina, which lies between the area’s two beaches of La Glea and Barranco Rubio, there is also a country club and equestrian centre which can be reached via an underpass on the other side of the main N-332 road. This road marks the western edge of Campoamor.

Right in the centre of the residential area, on the main north-to south road (Avenida Miguel de Cervantes) is the local church dedicated to Nuestra Señora del Carmen and a summer cinema.

The area has a good social scene due to the year round presence of a multicultural community, with a wide range of clubs, charities and associations in not only the Campoamor area but also neighbouring residential areas.

English speaking services are supplied by the Town hall which has an office dedicated to the needs of its foreign residents nearby.

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