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Palm Mar Cave (La Cueva de las morenas)
Las Rosas, Canary Islands, Spain
Max depth32 m
LevelEstimated: Advanced and up
Water bodyAtlantic Ocean
Water temp19–24°C
Estimated from climate dataAug–Nov
About this site
Palm Mar Cave (La Cueva de las morenas) is a cave dive site near Las Rosas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean. It has a maximum depth of about 32 m. Marine life recorded within about 5 km (OBIS/GBIF) includes dolphins, stingrays, sea turtles, 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
Common Bottlenose DolphinTursiops truncatus
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavo
Sharpnose PufferCanthigaster capistrata
TrantranAulostomus strigosus
Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgaris
Guinean PufferSphoeroides marmoratus
Nearby sites
- 1Palm-Mar Roncadores0.9 km
- 2Cueva de las Morenas1.4 km
- 3Palm Mar Wall (Bufadero)1.5 km
- 4Montaña Guaza1.5 km
- 5El Condesito Wreck1.8 km
- 6El Meridian1.9 km
Straight-line distances.
Sources: Species occurrences: OBIS (CC BY 4.0), GBIF.org