TORREVIEJA  , a seaport of

south-eastern Spain, in the province of Alicante, 3 m . S.W. of Cape Cervera, and at the terminus of a railway to Albatera on the Alicante-Murcia line . Pop . (1900), 9706 . The district is famous for its salt beds, which are owned and worked by the state, the Laguna Grande alone yielding more than 1oo,000 tons a year . The other industries are chiefly fishing, shipbuilding and the manufacture of ropes and sails . The roadstead affords safe anchorage . There is an active trade in fruit and agricultural products .