Puerto Lumbreras is located in the region of Alto Guadalentín, southwest of the Murcia.

The mountain of Cabezo de la Jara Mount is the highest in the municipality with a height of 1,242 meters above sea level, making it one of the highest summits of all Murcia.

The valley including the plains of Esparragal and Puerto Adentro. In between are various ramblers, where the Nogalte is the most important.

There are sites that reveal that the current location of Puerto Lumbreras was already inhabited before the Roman occupation.

Later it became virtually depopulated during Roman times. There were new settlements of population during the era of domination by the Moors, during which the castle Nogalte was built.

After the reconquest, the area again become depopulated. In the sixteenth century, there was a stable population, however, it was always dependent on the neighbouring city of Lorca.

In the eighteenth century the town grew, the name of Puerto Lumbreras was born and Cardenal Belluga ordered the building of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary.

The Constitution of 1812 stipulated that populations of more than a thousand inhabitants should constitute an independent municipality. It was the first approach to the independence of Puerto Lumbreras, but was not carried out by the restoration of absolute monarchy with Ferdinand VII.

During the Spanish Civil War it remained independent, but did not get the final emancipation of the municipality until the fifth attempt, on July 7, 1958, when it was established as an independent municipality. At that time Puerto Lumbreras had about 8,000 inhabitants.

The most significant recent history was the flood of October 19, 1973, which took 85 lives and caused great economic loss. Today, there is a central street that recalls the incident