The Maritime Terrestrial Natural Park Cabo de Gata-Nijar, first book of its kind in Andalusia, is created in order to address the conservation of natural ecosystems and landscape values​​, based on educational interests, cultural, scientific, tourist , recreational and socio-economic.

Lighthouse of Cabo de Gata area
It is one of Spain's natural areas, affected by more figures of protection, both natural and cultural. These inscriptions are grounded in its geological, ecological, historical, anthropological and landscape:
• It is one of the most arid landscapes of Europe, and one of the few volcanic protected.
• Its 63 km of coastline cliffs and harbor seabed ranked among the highest quality in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
• The fauna and flora of the park include a large group of particularly interesting species due to be endemic or restricted geographic distribution to nearby areas, be threatened with extinction, to be essential for normal development of ecosystems or pose a considerable economic resource.
• The plant catalog consists of over 1,000 terrestrial and marine to 250, among which some have extremely ecologically important as the oceanic Posidonia. Regarding the fauna, the park boasts an impressive diversity of terrestrial and marine invertebrates. Among the former are counted more than twenty endemic species and among the latter, are represented the vast majority of taxa described.
• The geographical location and climatic characteristics determine that the coastal strip protected marine species coexist normally populate on either side of the virtual border involving ocean currents between the Cabo de Gata and North Africa, without giving that circumstance anywhere else on the planet.
• Human beings, throughout history, has left a rich legacy that tracks chronologically how to utilize the resources, interacting with nature and landscape modeling.
• These activities away from alter the environment, actively collaborated in some cases the conservation and maintenance of ecological balance, the saltworks being one of the few examples of harmony between industrial processes and environmental protection.
• The social and economic development of the population is linked to the conservation of the environment, the regulation of the activities undertaken in the protected space becoming necessary.
• The lighthouse at Cabo de Gata and coral Sirens are two of the most representative icons of the province of Almería.

A cinema beach, not only for its volcanic beauty in which we can enjoy beautiful rocks that look like petrified rocks breaking or of the greater dune of the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata because, in fact, it has been more than 50 years being scene of Multitude of films, commercials and music videos.

There is a parking next to the beach that can be accessed by a toboggan run from San José. If you go in summer you will have to get up early because access by car is limited, but you can always go by bus from San José.