Playa Las Canteras, Gran Canaria Live Cam

Playa de Las Canteras runs across this webcam view in Las Palmas, the capital of the island of Gran Canaria. Small boats lie inside the reef bar that runs along the beach, and the city front curves away to the isthmus in the distance.

Las Canteras is a city beach three kilometres long, protected by a natural rock bar — La Barra — that breaks the Atlantic swell a couple of hundred metres out and leaves the inner water flat. At the far end the isthmus joins the peninsula of La Isleta to the rest of the island.

Because the bar shelters it, this beach is used all year and in almost any weather. Beyond the bar the same water is open ocean and surfed.