Daimús, Golden sand beach in Daimús, Spain.
Daimús, also called Platja dels Pedregals, is a fine-sand beach east of the town centre of Daimús in the Safor region. It measures 650 m long and about 40 m wide, and is backed by a dune cordon with residual mobile dunes to the north and south. North of the beach, the coastal plain is given over to citrus groves; to the south lies a small wetland at the mouth of the Barranc de l'Assagador.
The name Platja dels Pedregals comes from the first settlers of the Daimús coast, who lived in the barriada de los Pedregales. Measurements of the shoreline between 1947 and 1981 show the beach is clearly regressive, with fine to very fine sand and poorly defined longshore drift.
The name Platja dels Pedregals, 'stony beach', comes from the Pedregals district, where the first inhabitants of the Daimús coast settled. The beach is the busiest in the municipality, with services and equipment, and its southern end meets the mouth of the Barranc de l'Assagador and the Marjaleta wetland.
The beach lies east of Daimús's town centre and has a car park with almost 100 spaces. The nearest hospital is San Francisco de Borja in Gandia, the same town as the closest marina. The sand is fine to very fine and the shoreline has been retreating, as observations between 1947 and 1981 showed.
The beach and its dunes are clearly retreating: observations between 1947 and 1981 recorded a regressive shoreline with little defined longshore drift. At the southern end, where the Assagador ravine reaches the sea, a small wetland survives; together with the dunes and the Marjal del Nord (Marjaleta), it is rated as an area of high environmental interest.
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