Given the danger of the coastal stretch between Roncudo and Camelle confirmed by the numerous shipwrecks that have occurred over the years, engineer Francisco Godínez is commissioned to design the lighthouse in 1919.
Being an automated installation only a cylindrical tower painted white 11 m high, which in the thirties is coated with ceramics.
It enters service in 1920 with a scope of 5 miles.
Today it has beacon category and works with a fourth-order device with a range of 10 miles. Its device was modernized in 1971.
Curiosities, myths and legends
"The good barnacle is that which is as wide as long, which most resembles a big toe."
Both its thickness and length are variable depending on the state of relaxation of the muscles and mainly where it lives: thicker and shorter in areas hit by the sea, thinner and longer if it is in cracks or places where the water Occurs sideways.
The good barnacle is that of Roncudo by the continuous attacks of the sea that suffer the rocks where these crustaceans can be observed. Nowadays it is a very precious seafood but used to fertilize the fields and as food for pigs.
