According to a report by Euro Weekly News, Orgiva, is home to almost two-thirds of residents who are wither from another country or another region of Spain.

The small town of only around 7,000 inhabitants in the Alpujarra region, is only 40 minutes by car to the beach in Motril and an hour to Granada City.

According to figures released by Orgiva Town Hall and reported by Euro Weekly News, 26.42 percent of the population, some 2,311 people, are foreign, and representing an 72 different countries. Another 38.20 per cent are Spaniards who moved there from other parts of the country, leaving just 35.38 per cent who were born locally.

The report shows that the largest foreign community is British (754 residents), followed by Germans (253), Dutch (171), Romanians (153), Moroccans (138), French (124) and Italians (108).

Mayor Raúl Orellana said: “The diversity is a very significant factor at a social, economic and cultural level,” he said. “Different languages, customs, cuisines and ways of understanding the world coexist in the same space, and that enriches us as a municipality and as people.”

“The arrival of foreign residents helps Orgiva maintain, and even increase, its population,” Orellana explained.