OgÃÂjares is a municipality located in the central-southern part of the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the city had a population of 11,877 inhabitants.
OgÃÂjares is located in the center of a fertile plain, watered by irrigation from the Monachil and DÃÂlar rivers.
OgÃÂjares had its origins as two small Arab farming villages, although utensils and interments from the Visigoths and as far back as the Neolithic have been found locally. The name comes from the Latin phrase "Hortum Sacrum", which translated in Arabic became Ortexica, and then Oxijar. With the Christian conquest of Granada, the two villages became known as High OgÃÂjar and Low OgÃÂjar, finally united into what today is OgÃÂjares. Like many nearby municipalities, OgÃÂjares has become a suburb of nearby Granada.