Conceived to illuminate the estuary of Camariñas forming part of a system with three other lights: two located in luminous buoys and one on land, Punta de Lago, now out of service.
The engineer Rafael de la Cerda is in charge of approaching the project in 1927.
It entered service in 1928 with a white light and an effective range of 6 nautical miles.
Curiosities, myths and legends
In 1853 the Galician writer Rosalía de Castro spent a season in the town of Muxia accompanied by Eduarda Pondal. A stay marked by the tragedy since Eduarda, sister of Eduardo Pondal, died victim of typhus.
This stay in the village inspired Rosalía to write her first prose novel "La hija del mar". Work written in 1859 that relates the temperamental character of the woman through the history of two women who try to defend their honor.
