The Orihuela Palm Grove is located in the vicinity of the Barrio de San Antón, on the outskirts of the city, at the foot of  the easternmost foothills of the Sierra de Orihuela:  Monte de San Miguel, El Oriolet and La Muela. 

The Palm Grove has a roughly fusiform plan. One of its most significant peculiarities is  the  proximity  of  the mountain range, which  protects it from the north and west  winds  and  with   whose forest mass it comes into contact. It is not a forest or a messy assemblage of palm trees,  it is a human creation, where palm trees are distributed along the margins of fields, roads and  irrigation channels .

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The palm grove is an interesting agricultural system of intensive irrigation, characteristic of the oases of North Africa, although in the case of the Oriolan palm grove, its origin seems to be later. The use of the land is maximum when crops are grown on two or even three floors or heights: the lower floor is made up of herbaceous and vegetable, the middle floor is made up of fruit trees and the upper one is made up of date palms.

The irrigation system of the palm grove is of Islamic origin. As in the rest of the Huerta de Orihuela, it is based on the existence of two types of  riverbeds:

? Channels of living water, formed by major ditches , arrobas, bracers and threads that distribute the water taken from the river.

? Dead water channels  made up of larger azarbes, azarbetas and corridors that drain the land, collecting the surplus and returning the water to the river. In the case  of the palm grove , the supply of water for irrigation was mainly produced through  the Escorratell  and Azarbe de las Fuentes canals, nowadays also through the flow of several wells. To increase the efficiency of the system, various water lifting devices such as girders and foot bulbs were used.

Traditionally, everything in the palm tree has been used:  from the trunk to beams and benches; leaves or palms for the manufacture of brooms and the making of fences and sheds, or as white palm (once discolored with sulphur) for the manufacture of palms on Palm Sunday and also in basketry; dates are either raw or marinated in vinegar for human consumption, as well as tender shoots or hearts of palm, a typical delicacy at the San Antón and San Sebastián Fairs.