El Cabeton

El Cabezon — the Big Head or Big Boulder — is an intermediate dive on Fuerteventura's southwestern coast near Punta de Jandía, where a prominent basalt formation rising from the seafloor provides the focal feature that its name suggests. This area of the island's southwestern coastline combines the natural drama of an exposed Atlantic shore with the accessible diving that the Jandía Peninsula's waters offer in settled weather conditions, and El Cabezon delivers intermediate diving of genuine quality in one of Fuerteventura's most characterful coastal settings. The Jandía Peninsula forms the southern half of Fuerteventura, a rugged, wind-sculpted landscape with a dramatically different character from the northern resorts. Less developed and more remote, the Jandía coast attracts divers who value the rawness of genuine Atlantic island diving over the managed comfort of resort diving centres. El Cabezon sits in this context, its intermediate rating reflecting both the depth of the main formation and the exposed conditions that can develop on this southwestern coast. The cabezon itself — the large basalt boulder or prominent reef feature — provides the structural focal point around which the dive is organised. Large topographic features like this concentrate marine life in the specific way that isolated prominences always do: fish use them as territorial markers, predators patrol their perimeter, and the current flowing around a significant basalt feature creates the turbulence and eddies that concentrate baitfish and the species that prey on them. The American Star wreck lies in the same general area, and the combination of wreck and reef diving in the southwestern Fuerteventura context creates a multi-dive destination of genuine variety. Angel sharks are present on the sandy sections adjacent to the reef formations, and the productive Atlantic water off the Jandía Peninsula delivers the marine life encounters that reward the logistical effort of reaching this remote section of the island. An intermediate dive with the authentic Atlantic character of Fuerteventura's most isolated coast.