The Las Playas Natural Monument is a protected landscape located southwest of the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) that is part of the Canary Network of Natural Protected Areas and the Natura 2000 Network. It belongs to the municipalities of Valverde and Frontera . It limits to the southwest with the rural park of Border.
It is a large semicircular escarpment, with a diameter of about six kilometers, which reaches a maximum altitude of 1,075 meters above sea level in the Risco de Los Herreños. This escarpment delimits an interior depression by the north, the west and the south, being open towards the sea in its east-southeast quadrant.
This space was declared by Law 12/1987, of June 19, of the Declaration of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands, as a natural place of national interest of Las Playas, and reclassified to its current category by Law 12/1994, of December 19 , of Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands.