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Canallave Beach – Costa Quebrada Rock Formations loop from Parque Natural Dunas de Liencres y Costa Quebrada
03:50
14.2km
190m
Hiking
Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: March 18, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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532 m
Canallave Beach
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2.66 km
El Madero Beach
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3.35 km
Somocuevas Beach
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Its name comes from the caves between the rocks at the tip of Somocuevas. Nearby there is an islet that is frequented by seagulls and cormorants.
It has a length of 100 meters and its access is through a staircase of 139 steps that descends from a high cliff located to the west of the beach. This staircase is reached by a narrow path that comes from the parking area located a few hundred meters from the stairs. The slope of access to the water is gentle and the waves are also gentle because it is protected from the open sea by an inlet. The bottom is partly rocky although fine sand is also abundant. It is frequented by nudists, it is not official nudist as such. It is freely accessible.
The surroundings are made up of Atlantic meadows and residential developments. To the west is the natural park of the Dunas de Liencres, one of the most important coastal points of the Cantabrian Sea.
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4.24 km
Cerrías Beach
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4.99 km
Portio Beach
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5.08 km
Costa Quebrada Rock Formations
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Costa Quebrada is a stretch of coastline that constitutes a true classroom of sea and land where both teachers, in a book of stone sheets with traces of salt, not only show us the result of their rough but tender relationship in thousands of years, but that through the footprints in the rocks of different origin, structure and composition that the sea is stripping, lead us to intuit and know the processes that over millions of years, have given rise to the relief of Cantabria, thus constituting to say it, a codex of the memory of our land.
Thus, in the scarce twenty kilometers that separate the sandbanks of Liencres from the Magdalena peninsula, the Geodiversity Route that is Costa Quebrada surprises us with an exceptional variety of coastal forms that apart from their beauty have generated a no less valuable variety of biological communities underpinning the slogan of “Geodiversity Begets Biodiversity”.
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6.49 km
Arnía Beach
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7.03 km
View of Covachos Beach
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14.2 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
5.31 km
3.58 km
2.68 km
2.59 km
Surfaces
6.55 km
5.42 km
1.79 km
288 m
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Lowest point (10 m)
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