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Playa el Bollullo
La Orotava · Spain
The short version, from the cited sources
A small wild cove of coarse black sand below crumbling ochre cliffs on Tenerife's north coast, reached on foot through banana terraces. The north-facing shore takes the full Atlantic swell.
- Country
- Spain (ES)
- Region
- Europe
- Sand
- Black
- Water
- Strong north-coast atlantic surf
- Administrative area
- Canary Islands
- Timezone
- Atlantic/Canary
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2018-09-12
Names in the record
Playa el Bollullo
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
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Source position
28.41758, -16.51980
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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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