Human activity from construction along the coast between Torremolinos and Málaga laid the groundwork for this erosion to occur.

Construction and climate change are eating away at one stretch of the Spanish coast at an alarming rate.

Between 2016 and 2022, the Arraijanal-San Julián coast between Torremolinos and Málaga receded up to 45 metres.

The Spanish government has said for decades that the country’s coastline suffers from the “generalised process of coastal regression”. But the extent of the problem on this part of the Costa del Sol puts the situation into focus.

So much so that the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea has declared it “a situation of serious regression”. For this to happen the beach must have regressed by five metres each year for five years and be deemed to be unable to recover to its previous state naturally.

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