Puerto Colón, Adeje, Tenerife
Charter departure port · Salt water · in Tenerife
A purpose-built leisure marina on the south-western coast of Tenerife in the municipality of Adeje, with capacity for three hundred and sixty-four moored vessels and two hundred and thirty-seven dry berths, and a stated maximum length overall of twenty-four metres. It carries the largest concentration of charter and excursion boats on the island.
Safety: boat traffic and being seen — can cause serious injury or death. 2 more points apply here.
Particular to this water: A departure port, not a fishing mark. What the fleet catches is recorded against the offshore ground rather than against this harbour, and what any individual boat may fish for is a matter for its skipper and the fisheries authority.
FishingHQ describes what this place is, not whether you may fish it. Access, permits and who to ask.
Fish documented nearby, not here
Nothing below has been documented at Puerto Colón, Adeje, Tenerife itself. Each one has been documented at a named place on the same ground, and the places are listed with it. Treat this as what the water around here holds rather than as a catch list for this mark.
Also documented at neighbouring places
One or two accounts each, on the ground around here. Enough to know the fish is caught in these waters; not enough to say anything about this place.
From the shore
- White seabream — documented at Punta de Teno, Tenerife; Garachico; Candelaria (+4 more)
- Atlantic horse mackerel — documented at El Médano, Tenerife; Punta Rasca, Tenerife; Candelaria
- Mediterranean parrotfish — documented at Garachico; Candelaria; The El Sauzal coast (+1 more)
- Greater amberjack — documented at Punta de Teno, Tenerife; Punta Rasca, Tenerife; The El Sauzal coast
- Common dentex — documented at Punta de Teno, Tenerife
- Atlantic bonito — documented at Punta de Teno, Tenerife
- Bogue — documented at Garachico; Candelaria; Puerto de la Cruz
- Salema porgy — documented at Garachico; Candelaria; Puerto de la Cruz
- Comber — documented at Garachico; The El Sauzal coast
- Common octopus — documented at Garachico; Puerto de la Cruz
- European squid — documented at Puerto de la Cruz
- Red porgy — documented at The El Sauzal coast
From a boat
- Greater amberjack — documented at Punta Rasca, Tenerife
How people fish it
Practised here: Sea fishing.
The ground and the water
- The ground
- A purpose-built leisure marina on the south-western coast of Tenerife in the municipality of Adeje, with capacity for three hundred and sixty-four moored vessels and two hundred and thirty-seven dry berths, and a stated maximum length overall of twenty-four metres. It carries the largest concentration of charter and excursion boats on the island.
- Exposure
- On the lee coast, in the wind shadow the island's central massif throws across its south-west. That shelter is the reason the charter fleet is on this side of Tenerife and not on the north, where the same swell that scours the Anaga coast makes a working marina impractical.
- Depth
- The western slope of Tenerife falls away steeply a short distance offshore, which is the property that makes this a boat coast: blue water is reached in a run measured in minutes rather than hours.
Getting there
What public sources describe, last checked 2026-08-29. Car parks fill, services change and a path existing is not a path anybody may use — none of this is a guarantee of availability and none of it is permission to be anywhere.
- Getting to it
- A marina inside the Costa Adeje resort coast, reached from the coast road through Adeje. It is one of the busiest maritime-tourism harbours in the archipelago and the boats leave from numbered pontoons rather than from a single quay.
Where this access information comes from
- Puerto Colón, Adeje: the marina operator's own account — Puerto Colón (Adeje, Tenerife), with the Canary Islands tourism board's port register (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The marina's berth capacity, its stated maximum length overall, and the fuel, lifting and pontoon services recorded against it.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
What is there
Drinking water
Fresh water and electricity are supplied on every pontoon, on the marina's own account.
Slipway or launch
A ramp, a crane and a travel lift are recorded at the marina, alongside a fuel station.
Charter boats depart from here
The largest charter fleet in Tenerife works from here. What any individual operator is authorised to do from this port is the port's and the operator's affair, and it is being changed: see the note on the marina source.
Harbour facilities
A serviced leisure marina with a fuel station, lifting gear and marine maintenance available on site.
Safety
Boat traffic and being seen — Can cause serious injury or death
Summer small-craft traffic on this coast is heavy and fast, and a swimmer, breath-hold diver or small float is nearly invisible from a planing hull until it is too close to alter course.
What reduces it: Carry a surface marker buoy with a dive flag and keep it directly above the diver, work inside marked zones where they exist, and leave water where traffic is heavy rather than trying to be seen in it.
Cliffs and rock platforms — Can cause serious injury or death
Atlantic swell reaches the northern and western coasts with little energy lost, because there is no shelf to dissipate it. Waves at exposed lava platforms are larger and less predictable than the wind suggests, and people are washed off regularly.
What reduces it: Check swell rather than wind. Watch any platform for a sustained period before committing to it. Never fish a position you could not leave immediately, and treat undercut and blowhole ground as unsafe regardless of conditions.
Sun, dehydration and fatigue — Can cause injury needing treatment
Long summer sessions on shadeless rock produce dehydration and heat exhaustion, and both degrade judgement and coordination well before they produce collapse, on ground where both are what keep somebody safe.
What reduces it: Carry substantially more water than the session appears to need, fish the ends of the day rather than the middle of it in high summer, and treat shade and a stopping time as part of the plan.
Rules and access
FishingHQ does not know the current access position here. The Canary Islands are an autonomous community licensing their own recreational sea, boat and underwater fishing, separately from mainland Spain, and the archipelago carries marine reserves in which fishing and diving are restricted or prohibited on boundaries a visitor cannot see from the shore. Measures change. Check the current position with the Canarian government's fisheries administration before going.
Particular to this water: A departure port, not a fishing mark. What the fleet catches is recorded against the offshore ground rather than against this harbour, and what any individual boat may fish for is a matter for its skipper and the fisheries authority.
Who holds the answer:
- The Canarian government's fisheries administration, which licenses recreational sea and underwater fishing in the archipelago.
- The island council, for local measures and for access to the coast.
- The marine reserve administration, where the water is inside a reserve.
- The Canary Islands autonomous government's fisheries department, which administers recreational sea fishing licensing and rules in Canarian waters.
- The management authority of any marine protected area in which fishing is proposed.
- The Spanish national fisheries administration for offshore waters and for matters reserved to it.
- The harbour authority of the port used, for berthing, launching and charter arrangements.
- International fishery bodies whose measures apply to billfish and large pelagic species taken in Atlantic waters.
Nearby fishing
Other publicly documented places within about 40 km, by distance. Positions are approximate public geography and are never exact marks.
- Los Cristianos, Tenerife — 2–5 km · Charter departure port
- Punta Rasca, Tenerife — 10–25 km · Headland
- Playa San Juan and Alcalá, Tenerife — 10–25 km · Harbour wall
- Los Abrigos, Tenerife — 10–25 km · Harbour wall
- El Médano, Tenerife — 10–25 km · Surf beach
- Los Gigantes, Tenerife — 10–25 km · Harbour wall
- Garachico — 25–40 km · Rock platform
- Punta de Teno, Tenerife — 25–40 km · Headland
Sources for this place
- Puerto Colón, Adeje: the marina operator's own account — Puerto Colón (Adeje, Tenerife), with the Canary Islands tourism board's port register (Local authority, harbour or protected-area body)Relied on for: The marina's berth capacity, its stated maximum length overall, and the fuel, lifting and pontoon services recorded against it.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
- EMODnet — the European Marine Observation and Data Network — The European Commission, assembled from the national hydrographic offices, geological surveys and marine institutes of the member states (Scientific institute)Relied on for: Charted bathymetry, seabed substrate and seabed habitat for European sea areas, assembled from the national hydrographic and geological surveys, at the resolution the product publishes.States this directlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
- The European Environment Agency's assessments of Europe's waters, seas and coasts — European Environment Agency, Copenhagen (Conservation authority)Relied on for: Assessment of Europe's coasts and regional seas, including the condition of coastal water bodies, the pressures recorded on them and the coverage of designated sites.Background and mechanism onlyCitation checked — the work exists and is described correctly
How FishingHQ labels evidence is explained in the evidence policy. Last reviewed 2026-08-29.