Popularly known as 'El Cruce' (The Crossroads), this beach lies between Los Enebrales and El Portil. It's not built up, although it
has a few beach cafés, and you get to it along a road running parallel to the sea which crosses the dunes and pine woods. It's very
much frequented by residents of the capital and metropolitan area because it's one of the closest beaches to the city.
The sports commonly practised here are windsurfing, kite surfing and parascending.
Los Enebrales
Along three kilometres of coastline stretches Punta Umbría's Los Enebrales Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It consists of 162 hectares
of mixed juniper and savin juniper woodland, situated amongst dunes in which live very valued species of animals and plants.
Amongst its flora predominate the coastal juniper (a plant endemic to Andalusia's Atlantic coast), the savin juniper, the stone pine, the
Montpellier cistus, the mastic tree, the rockrose, rosemary, the blackthorn tree and Portuguese thyme (endemic to sandy coastal areas and in
Spain, only found in Huelva). With regard to fauna, there live – amongst others – species such as the subalpine warbler; the blackcap; the
blue tit; the greenfinch; the goldfinch; the Algerian sand racer; the Spanish sand racer; the fringe-fingered lizard; the ocelated lizard;
and the chameleon, in danger of extinction, which finds one of its habitats here (next to the pine woods of La Redondela and Isla Cristina
and around Isla Canela).
It's crossed by five boardwalks leading to the beach – that of playa de los Enebrales, also known as La Mata Negra – which make for fine walking.
What is important is to keep to the path so as not to impact the fragile balance of the ecosystem.
Camping-Playa La Bota
Camping Playa la Bota
Ctra. Huelva - Punta Umbría, Km. 11
Apdo. 580 - 21080 (Huelva)
Tel.: 959 314 537
Fax: 959 314 546
