Benamocarra looks over the valley of the Vélez river and over the Loma de la Quera, which separates the Jurado and Capanaja brooks, the latter being a tributary of the Iznate river. To the west of this river the Benamocarra territory is a succession of small hills, generally covered in olive and almond trees, while to the east of the Iznate river, at the bottom of the valley, the landscape is changing in the last years thanks to the advance of subtropical crop plantations, mainly avocados, which ascend the smooth hills in plots up to the town, mixing with orange and lemon groves.

The lands of Benamocarra are an example of the less abrupt type of La Axarquía landscape, with topographic features that lend diversity to the appearance of the countryside but do so without being excessively rugged. Its territory is a succession of hills, on one of which-La Quera- the village sits, while the rest abound with olive, almond, orange and lemon trees and, since some years back and just as in a large part of this region of La Axarquía, the subtropical crops on which much of the local economy is based

.The urban district is entirely characterised by traditional architecture, with low houses of at most two stories marking out the streets and alleys, some of them very steep, and with small squares here and there, providing open spaces in the classic Moorish street plan.

The place’s name derives from the Arabic for “sons of Mukarran”, and its history, prior to the Christian conquest, is closely linked to that of the neighbouring villages. It is known that it was conquered by Fernando the Catholic after the taking of Vélez Málaga in 1487, and that after the expulsion of the Moors in the sixteenth century it was repopulated by long-time Christians from Antequera, Puente Genil and Estepa, among other communities.
Many Moors left the village, however, before these resettlements and even before the expulsion as a result of the abuses committed by the Christians in violation of the terms of surrender. Some traces of the Arabic era remain in the area of Pozo Luchina (Luchina well).