Route Cabo de las Huertas - Lighthouse - San Juan Beach. Ruta Cabo de las Huertas - Faro - Playa de San Juan.

Starting Point

We start the route with these wonderful views.

Flora

Mediterranean plant

Stipa tenacissima

Stipa tenacissima (esparto, esparto grass, halfah grass, alfa grass, or needle grass) is a perennial grass of northwestern Africa and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Viewpoint

The Coves of Cabo de la Huerta in Alicante.

Santa Pola's lighthouse

In this photograph we can see the Santa Pola lighthouse.

Lantana camara

Lantana camara or Spanish flag is a hairy shrub native from tropical America. It is regarded as a notorious weed, and popular ornamental garden plant in many parts of the world.

Convolvulus althaeoides

Convolvulus althaeoides is a species of morning glory known by the common names mallow bindweed and mallow-leaved bindweed. This flowering plant is native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it is occasionally seen in other areas of similar climate, such as California in the United States, where it has been introduced. This is a climbing perennial plant with solitary flowers on long peduncles. The flower is a funnel-shaped pink bloom 3 or 4 centimeters wide. The leaves are deeply divided into narrow, fingerlike lobes.

Views of Alicante city

Magnificent views of the city of Alicante

La Calita Beach

La calita, is one of the coves that we find on our tour.

Mediterranean sea

City ​​views. You can see the castle, Santa Ana and the Serra Grossa.

We go on walling

Pedestrian promenade in Cabo de las Huertas.

Cala Cantalar

Located just a few minutes from the city center, Cala Cantalar is 100 meters long and around 6 wide, which makes it a perfect space to disconnect and enjoy the warm waters that bathe it and, above all, of the magnificent views that it leaves us.

Cala Cantalar

Located just a few minutes from the city center, Cala Cantalar is 100 meters long and around 6 wide, which makes it a perfect space to disconnect and enjoy the warm waters that bathe it and, above all, of the magnificent views that it leaves us.

Glebionis segetum

Glebionis segetum (syn. Chrysanthemum segetum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, probably native only to the eastern Mediterranean region but now naturalized in western and northern Europe as well as China and parts of North America. Common names include corn marigold and corn daisy.

Erosion

In Cabo de la Huerta there are rock strata that were marine sediments between approximately 10 and 8 million years ago. The geological epoch in which these rocks were formed is given the Upper Miocene name.

Go on hiking

We continue along the path near the sea

On the right

We have different options.

Waves

The waves erode the coast

Crithmum

Crithmum is a monospecific genus of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, with the sole species Crithmum maritimum, known as rock samphire, sea fennel or samphire. The name "samphire" is also used for several other unrelated succulent halophyte species of coastal plant.

Cala La Palmera

Cove where we can enjoy a swim

Erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

Way

We continue our route near the Mediterranean Sea.

Quarry

Quarry where the rock was extracted to build the lighthouse.

Cabo de las Huertas Lighthouse

Lighthouse with a circular floor plan and cylindrical volume. It rises above the ground at the end closest to the sea, independent of the other buildings, and has 4 levels formalized in three bodies: base, shaft and top. The basement, or lower level, is constituted by a cylinder of 3.00 m in diameter through which it is accessed. The shaft, with two intermediate levels, is made up of a smaller cylinder, which houses the staircase, and has an external annular terrace. The coronation, or upper level, is occupied by the cylindrical lantern with a spherical closure of 1.75 m in diameter, which also has a circular terrace. It is executed in its entirety, walls and floors, in reinforced concrete.

Bacterial mat

The bacterial mat is the life form most similar to the beginning of life on earth 3.5 billion years ago.

Panorama

Cormorant

Phalacrocorax is a genus of fish-eating birds in the cormorant family Phalacrocoracidae. Members of this genus are also known as the Old World cormorants.

Panorama

Fantastic views of the coast and the mountains of Alicante.

Map of Cape Huertas

End of our route with an explanatory sign.