CUEVAS DE VERA, a city of south-east Spain on the right bank of the river Almanzora, in the province of Almeria. Pop. (1920) 20,403. Cuevas de Vera is isolated by the Sierra de los Filabres from the railway system of Almeria. It is, how ever, the chief market for the cereals, fruit and vegetables, especially tomatoes, produced in the rich agricultural districts towards the south, and for the argentiferous lead and iron from mines in the mountains. In appearance it is modern, with an 18th century church in Doric style, but in reality the town is of considerable antiquity. One of the towers in the Moorish palace is probably of Roman origin.