It is located on top of one of the millenary hillocks that border the coastline, halfway between the beach of La Antilla and the port of El Terrón.

[4] Other watchtowers were built all along the coast of Huelva, which are in different states of preservation: from the disappearance to the restoration, including an inverted tower after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake (Torre de la Higuera).

[6] This arrangement was intended to protect the lighthouse keepers from a direct assault on the building, and access to the tower was by means of a rope or wooden ladder that was later removed.

[8] The chamber of the tower has a circular floor plan, 4.60 meters in diameter, and a semi-spherical vault, from brick rigging (A soga y tizón).

The half-barrel bull that marks the beginning of it is composed of a double sheet of brick, the lower one a tizón and the upper one a soga,[9] under which three gargoyles throw the rainwater to the outside.

[10] El Comendador de Hornos, Luis Bravo de Lagunas, visited the towns on the coast of Huelva and met with the aldermen of Lepe and the notary public on August 5, 1577 to communicate the royal order to build a watchtower and fort in El Terrón and a watchtower in Sierra Bermeja.

[11] In 1584, the Crown sent the lawyer Gilberto de Bedoya to promote the construction of the towers by distributing and collecting the corresponding costs from the nobles.

Drake's expedition of 1587 in the Bay of Cadiz increased the interest in accelerating the construction of the coastal defensive towers and it is recorded that the Torre del Catalán was rising in June 1587 to a height of twenty feet, that is to say, about 5.60 meters high.

[13] As a watchtower, a visitor foresaw for it in 1618 three soldiers on guard, without artillery, which would presumably be located in the Torre de El Terrón, closer to the mouth of the Piedras River.

The assistance in the defense of the coast to the Torre del Catalán and El Terrón corresponded to the town of Lepe, according to various reports of the early 17th century.

[24] The objective of this agreement is to create an Interpretation Center of the history and defensive architecture of the municipality around the tower under the project "Enhancement and accessibility of the Torre del Catalán of Lepe and development of La Vera", presented at FITUR 2020.