Cabo Touriñán

Cabo Touriñán is a small peninsula that is the most westerly point of Peninsular Spain.

The cape is a small peninsula that juts about 1 km into the sea, the narrowest section being an isthmus 150 metres wide between the coasts of Balal and Cuño.

The rock is made of is granite, the erosion of which has caused the formation of deposits of pebbles, known as coídos, and stony bars, which formed an islet such as the so-called A Ínsua on the west side of the cape.

Its rugged landscape causes the cape to have vegetation to be basically just thorny reed or gorse like Ulex eruopaeus.

[2] The name comes from the nearby parish of Touriñán, in which the cape is located, and that must go back to the Latin name, which is supposed to be "Taurinius" or "Taurinianus" through the genitive "Tauriniani".