ALHAMA DE GRANADA, southern Spain, province of Granada, 24m. S.W. of Granada. Pop. (193o) 8,204. Alhama is on a sloping shelf of limestone over a deep gorge of the river Marchan or Alhama; the rugged peaks (6,800ft.) of the Sierra de Alhama rise behind it. On Christmas Day 1884 an earth quake destroyed fine terraces of Moorish houses and Boo people, and the town was rebuilt a little way from the old site. The baths (Arabic, alhama =bath) near the river, continuously used since Roman times, survived. The temperature of the hot sulphurous springs is about I12°F.; and visitors come in spring and autumn for the fine scenery and cures of rheumatism and dyspepsia. In the 15th century Alhama and the neighbouring fortress of Loja (q.v.), were the keys of Granada.