Charco Azul (San Andrés y Sauces)
Charco Azul (Blue Pond) is a bay with a sea swimming pool on the rocky northeast coast of the Canary Island of La Palma and is located in the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces . The bay is north of the village of San Andrés and south of the fishing port of Puerto Espíndola . There are three small pools in it, which are fed by sea water and allow a bath: the eponymous Charco Azul , the Charco de los Guardias and the Charco de las Damas , which are accessed via stairs and paths.
Sea swimming pool
The Charco Azul swimming pool is protected against the surf of the Atlantic by a wall through which the pool has a direct seawater inlet. The water in the pool is therefore mostly calm. There is also a children's pool that is supplied with Atlantic water by pumps. Severe storms and thunderstorms in 2008 and 2009 resulted in severe damage to the sea pool; it was repaired again in the following years. Not far from the walled-in basin, it is also possible to swim or fish in the natural pools that have been left in their original state. In addition to changing rooms, the facility also includes a restaurant with bar and veranda. Visitor parking spaces and a stop for bus line 104, which runs three times a day (not on weekends), have been set up above the facility.
Surroundings
The Paseo Marítimo , a well-developed promenade along the sea, runs between Charco Azul and San Andrés .
Above the cliff there are around twenty houses (farmsteads, houses, workplaces) along the Camino El Melonar road . The landscape above the rocky coast is dominated by the predominant banana and, to a lesser extent, sugar cane cultivation in the region . The distillery , a little further north at Punta Espíndola, specializes primarily in rum and rum liqueurs and aguardiente made from sugar cane juice (from La Palma) . In the building of the distillery and sugar cane mill, there is a factory outlet and the museum on the history of sugar cane cultivation and rum: Centro de Interpretación de la Caña de Azúcar y el Ron .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the literature, especially in travel guides, the name Charco Azul is only used for the bay and the sea swimming pool that was built in the bay.
- ↑ a b Baedeker travel guide La Palma, El Hierro, 6th edition 2014, ISBN 3829714114 , page 237
- ↑ a b Pictures and description of Charco Azul
- ↑ More than 600,000 euros for renovation work ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ La Palma by bus
- ^ San Andrés: Sitios de Interés
- ^ Geographic information system of the Gobierno de Canarias
- ↑ Information Center for Sugar Cane and Rum - Destilerías Aldea
- ↑ Rumtradition on La Palma ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 28 ° 48 ′ 28.6 " N , 17 ° 45 ′ 41.8" W.