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Cueva de las Morenas
Playa de las Américas, Canary Islands, Spain
Water bodyAtlantic Ocean
Water temp19–24°C
Estimated from climate dataAug–Nov
About this site
Cueva de las Morenas is a cave and wall dive site near Playa de las Américas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean. Marine life recorded within about 5 km (OBIS/GBIF) includes dolphins, sea turtles, stingrays, cuttlefish, groupers. Typical surface water temperature ranges from about 19 to 24 °C over the year.
Conditions by month
BestGoodMixedOctoberBest
Typically one of the best months here.
Marine life
Recorded nearby
Short-finned Pilot WhaleGlobicephala macrorhynchus
ParrotfishSparisoma cretense
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavo
Common Bottlenose DolphinTursiops truncatus
Sharpnose PufferCanthigaster capistrata
TrantranAulostomus strigosus
Common CuttlefishSepia officinalis
Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgaris
Nearby sites
- 1Montaña Guaza0.3 km
- 2Palm Mar Wall (Bufadero)0.3 km
- 3Palm-Mar Roncadores0.8 km
- 4Palm Mar Cave (La Cueva de las morenas)1.4 km
- 5El Meridian1.9 km
- 6El Condesito Wreck2.6 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org