Menorca, the area around Cap d'en Font

Menorca · Spain · Cave & cavern

Cap d'en Font

Named stalactite chambers from 26 m up to a 3 m inner cave

Area photo: Alejandro Muñoz Cabrisas · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cap d'en Font is a cave system on the south coast made of named chambers — Moon Pool, Tom's Belfrey, The Organ Loft and the Cathedral — stacked between 3 and 26 metres and linked by narrow passages hung with stalactites. Binibeca Diving rates it the finest cave diving on Menorca and Scubago advises at least two dives to see the whole thing.

Also known as Caves of Cap d'en Font.

Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of Cap d'en Font: typical dive 3–26 m (10–85 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit3 m26 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

39.8248° N, 4.2080° EPublished position for this site.

The dive

Entry is through the Moon Pool, a large entry cavern at 17 metres. From there the route rises up the wall and passes through a freshwater halocline, where the water goes briefly out of focus, into an inner cave at only about 3 metres. That climb from 17 metres to 3 inside the rock is the character of the system as a whole: chambers stacked at different depths, joined by narrow corridors.

The other chambers are named for what is in them. Tom's Belfrey lets divers surface deep inside the cavern under a display of stalactites, at 24 metres; The Organ Loft, also 24, is dense with stalactites and stalagmites. The Cathedral is the biggest of them, at 26 metres, naturally lit with diffused turquoise light, and a single rock sits on its floor like an offering left to a forgotten marine god.

Binibeca Diving lists the same chambers under their Catalan and Spanish names — catedral, organo, campanario and pozo de la luna — with two more, Scorpions and Fossils, and describes the whole as narrow corridors with several air chambers. Outside on the cliff walls there are nudibranchs, moray eels and octopus; inside, prawns, crabs, cardinalfish and scorpionfish. Scubago advises two dives at least.

Marine life and season

  • Nudibranchs
  • Octopus & cuttlefish
  • Macro critters
Month-by-month season rating for Cap d'en Font
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Season follows Menorca: Menorca's tourist season runs May to October; June to September holds the warmest water, near 25–27°C in August, while February and March fall to about 12–14°C.

Know before you go

  • The chambers are joined by narrow corridors and the air spaces inside are pockets, not exits: cavern training, a torch and a guide who knows the route through the system are the baseline here.

Dive videos

Buceo en las cuevas de Cap d'en Font - Binibeca Diving · Binibeca Diving Menorca on YouTube

Cuevas submarinas d'es Cap den Font · JAVIER FARTO COSCOLIN on YouTube

Sources

  1. Cap d'en Font — Scubago
  2. Diving in Menorca's Marine Reserve - Dive Sites — S'Algar Diving
  3. Bucear en Menorca, nuestro top 10 de inmersiones en la isla — Binibeca Diving

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