Cap Gros

Cap Gros sits on the park's northern shore between Port de la Selva and Selva de Mar, reached by boat like the rest of this stretch of coast. Like the park's other headlands, the terrain runs to rock walls and pinnacles, and depths typically extend well past recreational reef range: centres plan Cap Gros as an Advanced Open Water dive, not a shallow first-timer profile. No fish or invertebrate sighting is documented at this exact point; the groupers, gorgonians and moray eels that define the wider park are the reference for the area, not a confirmed record for this headland.

Cap Gros gives its name to one of only three marine Partial Nature Reserves inside Cap de Creus Natural Park, carried in the park's 2025 management plan alongside the reserves at Cap de Creus itself and Cap Norfeu.1 Two centres based in Port de la Selva, Cap de Creus Dive and CIPS Dive, both carry the headland on their published dive rosters.

This stretch of the reserve carries two rules that apply nowhere else in the park. Residents registered in Cadaqués, Port de la Selva or Selva de Mar may anchor overnight here, on non-consecutive nights, an allowance the reserve does not extend to other visitors. Permit-holding professional boats are also allowed to fish for lobster below 50 metres here between April and August, deeper than a normal recreational profile reaches, but worth carrying in your plan if a deeper or technical dive is on the schedule.1 Whether the headland also hides a cave or overhead section is unconfirmed; if that matters to how you plan the dive, ask your centre directly before booking.