Wide view of Playa de Samil, Vigo, Galicia.

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Playa Samil

Galicia · Spain

Playa Samil, Spain
Playa de Samil.

The short version, from the cited sources

Samil Beach is a beach in the parish of Navia, Vigo, Galicia, north-west Spain. At 1,250 metres (4,100 ft) in length and approximately 60 metres wide, it is the largest beach in the city.

Country
Spain (ES)
Region
Europe
Sand
Golden
Surface
Sand
Coast
On the Atlantic Ocean
Administrative area
Galicia
Timezone
Europe/Madrid
Source family
GeoNames
Source updated
2015-06-14

Names in the record

Playa Samil

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  • Water and swimming character
  • Access and accessibility
  • Facilities and lifeguards
  • Seasonality and crowd pattern
  • Current hazards and restrictions
  • Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds

Source position

42.20644, -8.77795

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Direct provenance

Sources behind this record

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  1. GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗

    Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.

    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-09-02
  2. OpenStreetMap beach element tagsOpenStreetMap contributors ↗

    Surface, lifeguard, access, wheelchair and facility tags read from the beach's own OpenStreetMap element; the per-record citation links the element.

    ODbL 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  3. Wikidata beach itemsWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Coordinates, administrative area, body of water, length and typed beach class read from the beach item's own statements; the per-record citation links the item.

    CC0 1.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
  4. Wikipedia beach articlesWikimedia Foundation ↗

    Encyclopedia articles used for the editorial summary of illustrated records; the per-record citation links the specific article.

    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
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