{"id":1352,"date":"2016-07-04T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planout.es\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T10:05:36","slug":"cabo-de-palos-islas-hormigas-marine-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/cabo-de-palos-islas-hormigas-marine-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabo de Palos-Islas Hormigas\u00b4 marine reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the prestigious Spanish website EFEverde<\/strong><\/a>, Cabo de Palos-Islas Hormigas\u00b4<\/strong> marine reserve<\/strong> has been claimed to be one of the most important areas in the Mediterranean<\/strong>. Nowadays, this location is considered the area of greatest underwater biodiversity of Europe, an essential requirement that has advertised its importance as the perfect Spanish dive destination<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Its 1.900 hectares<\/strong> encompass an immense amount of different submarine species, covering seaweed (vast colonies of posidonia<\/em><\/strong>, extended in the Mediterranean Sea and the south coast of Australia) and colonies of coral, making it the perfect environment to foster biodiversity<\/strong>. But this is not its only allure!<\/p>\n

The fact of being catalogued as a dangerous space for navigation has prompted another major tourist attraction, since its seabed \u201cshelters\u201d the remains of ancient shipwrecks: the Italian ocean liner \u201cEl Sirio\u201d (the Syrian<\/em>)<\/strong> sunk off the coasts of Cabo de Palos<\/strong> in 1906<\/strong> \u2013 110 years ago \u2013, taking away the lives of its crewmen, together with other four sunken vessels from ancient times \u2013 it has been discovered rests of a Phoenician cargo<\/strong>, as well as a cannon from an old xebec. As a result of these previous loses and in order to conserve wildlife, Cabo de Palos-Islas Hormigas<\/strong> became a protected space<\/strong> in 1995, and moreover, Cabo de Paloss\u00b4<\/strong>\u00a0lighthouse was declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2002<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To preserve this natural paradise, there have been various restrictions in the field of fisheries, including other nautical activities. However, diving \u2013 in a controlled manner \u2013 is still considered a valid activity in the area because of its huge tourist power and how enriching the experience is, allowing humans to contact directly with the hidden beauty of the ocean and its exoticism.
\nFor this reason, we invite our most adventurous readers to join this rewarding and interesting experience!<\/p>\n

Some of the diving activities we have in Cabo de Palos are<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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The purpose of diving baptism is to have first contact with the diving environment, discovering the sensations produced to be able to breathe…<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t65 €<\/span><\/span> p\/p<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Enjoy the scuba diving in the best place of Europe (Reserva Islas Hormigas - Cabo Palos)....<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t360 €<\/span><\/span> p\/p<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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According to the prestigious Spanish website EFEverde, Cabo de Palos-Islas Hormigas\u00b4 marine reserve has been claimed to be one of the most important areas in the Mediterranean. Nowadays, this location is considered the area of greatest underwater biodiversity of Europe, an essential requirement that has advertised its importance as the perfect Spanish dive destination. Its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,12,13,16,17,22,23,32],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planout.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}