An oblong absorbent article having a liquid permeable front surface sheet disposed on the skin contacting side a back surface sheet disposed on the side that does not contact the skin and an absorbent disposed between the two sheets wherein: the absorbent has a longitudinal direction and a width direction orthogonal thereto and in the region that corresponds to the region of discharge liquid conducting structures are disposed in both the longitudinal and width directions of the absorbent that are configured from groove shaped crevices excavated from the non skin contacting side in the thickness direction and pulp fiber containing concave absorption parts at the bottoms of said crevices on the skin contacting side the regions surrounded by the liquid conducting structures are provided with block shaped protruding absorption parts that protrude to the non skin contacting side contain pulp fibers and have higher basis weight than the concave absorption parts and the concave absorption parts of the liquid conducting structures are of low density and the block shaped protruding absorption parts are of relatively high density.
