Villaricos

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Villaricos

| image_skyline= Puerto villaricos la esperanza.jpg

| caption = Port

| coordinates = {{coord|37|14|57|N|1|46|16|W}}

| population_total = 626

| subdivision_type = Region

| subdivision_name = Levante Almeriense

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Cuevas del Almanzora

| area_total_km2 = 63

| elevation_m = 3

}}

Villaricos is a coastal district located in Cuevas del Almanzora, Spain.{{cite web |url=http://www.arqueoweb.com/playazo/inthistorica.htm |title=La Minería en la Sierra Almagrera (s. XIX-XX). |access-date=4 November 2019 |work=Arqueoweb |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202173758/http://www.arqueoweb.com/playazo/inthistorica.htm |archive-date=2 February 2011}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cuevasdelalmanzora.net/pedanias.html |title=Cuevas del Almanzora... mil razones para visitarla |access-date=4 November 2019 |work=Cuevas del Almanzora |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902162505/http://www.cuevasdelalmanzora.net/pedanias.html |archive-date=2 September 2011}} On 5 April 1863 the barque Candahar was driven ashore at Villaricos and broke in two.{{Cite news |title=Mercantile Ship News |newspaper=The Standard |location=London |date=18 April 1863 |issue=12070 |page=7 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/C-Ships/candahar1840.html |title=Candahar |publisher=Shipping and Shipbuilding Research Trust |access-date=11 April 2020}} By 2018 it has 626 inhabitants, 335 men and 291 women.{{cite web |url=http://www.ine.es/nomen2/index.do?accion=busquedaRapida&subaccion=&numPag=0&ordenAnios=ASC&nombrePoblacion=Villaricos&botonBusquedaRapida=Consultar+selección |title=Nomenclátor: Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional a 1 de enero |access-date=4 November 2019 |work=INE |language=es}}

Baria, an ancient Punic and later (since 209 BC) Roman city, was found in Villaricos.Schneider, Jan (2017). Ländliche Siedlungsstrukturen im römischen Spanien. Das Becken von Vera und das Camp de Tarragona – zwei Mikroregionen im Vergleich [Rural settlement structures in Roman Spain. The Vera Basin and the Camp de Tarragona - a comparison of two micro-regions]. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, vol. 22. Oxford: Archaeopress, {{ISBN|978-1-78491-554-4}}, esp. pp. 9–14.