Types of marine bottoms in the Columbretes
The Columbretes Islands have a volcanic origin, about 14 million years ago. This activity has caused a seabed that is made up of many hollows and areas where there is a great variety of flora. At the bottom of the archipelago there is also a great variety of marine fauna, which allows to find a representation of all the marine inhabitants of the Mediterranean area.
The variety of marine bottoms is in agreement with that amount of animal and vegetal species. In the waters of this small and rich archipelago you can find several types of submerged surfaces that help to keep alive and well supplied with food to all the species that live in them.
On the sea floor of the Columbretes Islands, it has a spectacular richness that can be visited by diving
One of the funds that we found during the dives are seagrass meadows, which are very important for the breeding of marine organisms, which also feed and take refuge in these places on the seabed.
In the maërl funds, many of the species that live in the waters of the Columbretes Islands are also reproduced, since their composition favors the appearance of nutrients that allow very rich areas to be created in these and that help the fauna of the islands always remain vital.
The rocky bottoms allow the red lobsters to have a place to live, along with other species that inhabit that type of funds and that provides other elements so that in that same place you can find other species such as moray eels and a great variety of fish.
With these seabeds, the fauna of the Columbretes Islands become authentic paradises in which the people who opt for immersion, through the different companies that organize these organized trips to get to know the waters well that surround them.