The route starts in the area known as Las Salinas de La Garita (the La Garita Salt Mines) because in the past there was a coastal space here where sea salt was collected. Here starts a seaside stroll along Telde’s major popular beaches: La Garita, Hoya del Pozo, Playa del Hombre, Melenara and Salinetas.

We will also get close to some unique spaces such as El Bufadero de La Garita or Punta Comisaría and El Rincón del Castellano, where we will be surprised by the geology and –at the last spot- by the existence of the piña de mar, a small tunicate plant exclusive to the area.

The proposed route follows solely the seaside promenade, interspersed with sections of streets. In other spots you can walk on the actual sand of the beaches, thus refreshing your feet.

The first one is La Garita beach, among the most popular and inviting in Telde municipality. Shaped like a broad conch, it boasts fine dark sand. It has eateries, disabled car parking and is a peaceful family-oriented beach. It also has a lifeguard service.

A little further south along this promenade we will have the possibility of discovering a unique landscape: the multiform basalt outline of the Corral de las Yeguas.

Moving on, we come to the “Bufadero de La Garita” blower, a submarine cavity where the overflowing spume from the great groundswells forms brief spectacular cascades falling into the Bufadero. The sea compressed into this vessel of lava then spews a jet of water to a great height through a small hole, geyser-like. A volcanic marvel on our coastline.

The writer José Luis González Ruano, a Telde native and a lover, defender and disseminator of the municipality’s natural values, said that “the Telde coast receives each day the colourful fantasy of the dawn. The early morning hours are therefore the ideal moment for contemplating beautiful marine images such as those composed by the Roques de Taliarte”.

From Telde seaside promenade, after leaving behind the Playa del Hombre beach, head towards the Taliarte lighthouse, the fishery facilities of its harbour and the Canary Institute of Marine Sciences, founded in the early 1970s as a research centre that supported the flourishing fishing industry in the Canaries and helped to promote university studies in marine science.

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Roques de Taliarte

On this route walkers will necessary stop at the well-known Rincón del Castellano, next to Taliarte. Here, less than a hundred metres from the coast, are two rocks joined to the coastline around three metres underwater and also attached to each other, to the point where low tide allows us the view of a beautiful garden of brown algae where the emerald wrasse fish like to hide. This is a place of great interest for fish science thanks to its high specific diversity. In recent years the odd family of fish has been spotted that had never before been mentioned in the Canaries.

Melenara Beach

On the Taliarte seaside promenade, at its end point, near the stairs leading down to Melenara Beach, we find the ideal spot for taking a break and admiring the aerial landscape you can view from this position.

At our feet is a small dock used by the local fishers. In front, the impassive sculpture of Neptune (Roman god of the sea) created by the artist Luis Arencibia and unveiled on 1 September 2001. “The Melenara Neptune is today one of Telde’s representative icons, as I expressed in my book The Neptune of Melenara, published by Telde Town Hall in 2007”. A quote by the writer Luis León Barreto.

From this spot we have a fantastic panoramic view of popular Melenara Beach, which is 350 metres long, 30 metres wide and is covered in black sand of volcanic origin. For some writers its sand is “fine and greyish”. Come and discover it for yourself!

Enjoy the rich and varied local gastronomy in a broad selection of restaurants. Melenara boasts a disabled car parking area and is a peaceful, very family-friendly beach. It also has a lifeguard service. In recent years it has been awarded the blue flag of the Foundation for Environmental Education in Europe, as it meets an exact set of service requirements.