Los Escullos to the Caldera de la Majada Redonda 26 February 2022

The Cabo de Gata natural park owes its dramatic landscape to volcanic activity from 16 to 8 million years ago. Just north of the campsite is a large round Caldera; a collapsed volcano.

Today was windy and overcast, so we took ourselves off for a run up the rambla (footpath following a dry stream bed) to explore. The path took us to the bottom of the basin of the caldera, where we were surrounded by the steep walls of the now-extinct volcano.

The story of the Caldera (collapsed volcano)
The Rambla up to the Caldera
A small bit of civilisation en-route
Typical rock structure at side of Rambla: these greenish rocks are the remnants of pyroclastic flows of hot ash (similar to those which swamped Pompeii in AD79)
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Within the Caldera. The hill in the background is part of the rim of the Caldera
Another view of the Caldera rim