DON BENITO, a town of western Spain, in the province of Badajoz; near the left bank of the river Guadiana, on the Ma drid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. Pop. (193o) 21,196. Don Benito, centre of a fertile district, dates from the i5th century, when it was founded by refugees from Don Llorente, driven out of their own town by floods from the Guadiana. Besides manufactures of oil, soap, flour, linen, lace and cloth, it has an active trade in wheat, cattle, wine and fruit, especially melons.