Platja Els Bufadors

place 43519 Catalonia

Platja Els Bufadors, in the municipality of El Perelló, in the Terres de l’Ebre, lies in a low rocky area known as the “bufadors zone” (“blowholes”), where columns of water shoot up, driven by the movement of the sea.

El Perelló By the Sea
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It is a natural phenomenon caused by a series of underground tunnels that end in a single hole. When a wave enters these tunnels with force, it pushes the compressed air up through the hole, and a column of water then shoots out; the rougher the sea, the more spectacular it is.