South America · Illustrated record
Playa Blanca (Baru)
Cartagena · Colombia
The short version, from the cited sources
Playa Blanca on the Baru peninsula is Cartagena's white-sand escape: a strip of bright Caribbean beach an hour from the walled city, with water in the improbable turquoise that the city's own urban beaches lack. Day-trip boats and buses fill it by late morning and it empties again toward evening, when a small number of rustic beach camps remain. Vendors and moto-taxis are part of its texture; seclusion is not the offer.
- Country
- Colombia (CO)
- Region
- South America
- Sand
- White
- Water
- Calm, bright-turquoise caribbean water
- Administrative area
- Bolívar
- Timezone
- America/Bogota
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2018-12-06
Names in the record
Playa Blanca (Baru)
- Playa Blanca
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
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Source position
10.29519, -75.58875
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Direct provenance
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Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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