The Bentomiz mountain range is abundant with cold and healthy springs and streams of clear water that flow down between the crags, and the inhabitants irrigate their vegetable gardens and farms in irrigation ditches along the slopes.
Before the arrival of the Castilians, water was communal and was distributed according to strict rules, according to collective interests, because according to the Koranic tradition, water, grass and fire could not be the object of private appropriation. The Castilian conquest would alter this careful balance that turned irrigation into an important pillar of the economy of the kingdom of Granada.