The Iron offers great opportunities to practice different sports activities to its visitors
The Fight Canaria
The most popular sport in El Hierro, as in the other islands of the archipelago, is the Canary wrestling, whose origins would probably have to go and look at the ancient inhabitants of the islands.
It is a sport for which there is a need for great skill and physical strength. The fight was carried out by teams and often compete among themselves the various peoples and some other islands.
Diving
El Hierro is an island enigmatic. His abrupt coast hidden under their transparent and warm waters, seabed formations as fascinating as those of the surface.
The island has a large overhang and can be found 100 meters deep near the coast with a rich fauna and flora species in tropical: thorny drum (fish balloon), lobster, black coral, and mere abbots, trumpet fish, big shoals of Chop, Sarge, barracuda, etc..
These great depths enable the observation in the summer months large groups of blankets, hammerhead sharks, tuna fish and crossbow.
Wake great interest among divers diving in the warm waters of the Sea of Las Calmas.
This unique atmosphere in the Canary Islands are well known to remain calm most of the year. Declared Marine Reserve, presents extensive caves, volcanic arcs and with abundant vegetation cover.
Other activities
The Iron offers great opportunities to practice different sports activities to its visitors, with a diving one of the most exciting. In La Restinga and Tijimiraque centres diving perfectly equipped for the practice and teaching of this sport, and from which organizes outings to places of interest in the crystalline waters that bathe the island. There are also possibilities for the practice of paragliding, surfing, mountain biking, hiking, caving and many other water sports and adventure.