La Cueva de la Virgen · Ruta Ana María

This is a very simple dive, with barely any current and, when present, usually mild, featuring a small tunnel about 12 metres long.

At the cave's entrance, around 15 metres deep, you'll find the image of the Virgen del Carmen, which gives the dive its name. The exit at the other end is spectacular, as it opens vertically and you can see striking backlighting. Once outside, if you look up at the cave's ceiling you'll see tiny bubbles escaping through the seagrass, filtering out through the cave's nooks and crannies.

One of the biggest highlights is visiting three boats that were sunk to create artificial reefs, the most iconic and oldest being the Ana María. On these wrecks you can see an unusual number of moray and conger eels, both in numbers and size. It's also curious to come across the tail of a sunken light aircraft.

During this dive you can find groupers, meagre, common dentex, white seabream, saddled seabream, triggerfish, barracudas, parrotfish, moray eels, conger eels, nudibranchs, sea slugs and occasionally ocean sunfish and eagle rays.

Typical marine life

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