The current location of Canales, population belonging to Güéjar Sierra, is now at 1100 meters altitude.
With an area of 8 hectares and a generic single-family residential use, is arranged in a compact group currently composed of a dozen single-family buildings.
The village is accessed by the A395 road between Granada with Sierra Nevada.
Notably, in this town, the church that was built in the seventies of the twentieth century by Charles Pfeifer Formica-Corsi.