El Rincon
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About this site
El Rincon is a boat dive on El Hierro, only two minutes from the harbour. It takes its name, meaning the corner, from its position where the port wall meets a rocky bar running out into the sea. It is a beginner dive with little or no current.
The dive goes down to about 20 m and then follows a lava tongue. Along the route divers meet dusky and island groupers, trumpetfish, barred hogfish, Canary lobsters and sea bream. Porcupinefish and the endangered angel shark can turn up in cracks on the way back to the anchor line.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
European ParrotfishSparisoma cretenseReported here · unconfirmed
PufferfishPufferfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavoReported here · unconfirmed
Eastern Atlantic TrumpetfishAulostomus strigosusReported here · unconfirmed
Canary DamselSimiliparma luridaReported here · unconfirmed
Macaronesian TobyCanthigaster capistrataReported here · unconfirmed
Planehead FilefishStephanolepis hispidaReported here · unconfirmed
Atlantic DamselfishChromis limbataReported here · unconfirmed
GrouperGrouperConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
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