The bank of "El Cachucho" or "Le Danois" is an underwater mountain located 65 km north of Ribadesella (Asturias). The mountain has particular geomorphological and hydrodynamic characteristics which classify it as a place of high productivity due to the rise of nutrient rich deep waters. These features turns "El Cachucho" into important breeding grounds for commercial and non-commercial species, as well as a place where fragile animal population with high ecological value can be found, such as sponges, gorgonias and deep corals. 

The shallow part of the mountain holds a flat platform at an average depth of 550 meters. The north side of the platform ends on a slope which goes 4,000 meters deep, while the south part of the platform is located within a 900 meter deep basin that isolates it from the continental shelf of Asturias. "El Cachucho", like other areas of the Asturian coast ( the submarine canyons of Avilés, Llanes and Lastres), is considered an important area also for the populations of whales and seabirds that usually hang around it.

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Informe del estudio de CRAM (IN SPANISH) [Size 1,5 Mb]

Informe de Síntesis de los Valores Ambientales de El Cachucho (IN SPANISH) [Size 1,6 Mb]