Beach and part of the dune cordon of Es Cavallet.
At the beach of Es Cavallet, which has a surface area of 22,700 m2 and a width varying between 15 m and 40 m, lies one of Eivissa’s two most representative beach-dune systems, closing to the sea the eastern sector of the island’s saline pools. The other dune system is that of Ses Salines.
This coastal barrier is formed by a narrower, flattened initial fringe of bioclastic sands that form the beach, followed by a series of dune cordons lying in parallel with the coastline. These are mobile dunes dating from the Holocene age to the present day, also constituted by bioclastic sands.
Different zones into which the littoral zone can be divided.
The sands that compose the present system beach-dune are deposited over a fossilised beach-dune system of the Pleistocene age (marés).
Outcrop of the fossilised beach-dune system which serves as the base for the present-day dune system.
Marés rock is formed by calcarenites of delicate tones with spherical grains of diameters between 0.5 and 1.0 mm.
The continued passage of people creates zones without vegetation which lead to the destabilisation of the dunes. The zone is now protected and in process of regeneration.
Lack of vegetation on the dunes and footprints left by people.
