Playa de La Ribera, Urban beach in Suances, Spain

Playa de La Ribera is a beach in the municipality of Suances, on the Cantabrian coast of Cantabria, Spain, where the Suances river meets the sea. Its shoreline of fine sand slopes gently into the water, giving bathers easy, direct entry.

La Ribera lies in Suances, on the Cantabrian coast of Cantabria, at the mouth of the Suances river estuary. The single source documents only this location, so the beach's own origin and later changes are not recorded; the wider port history of Suances belongs to the town, not to this beach.

The name La Ribera means "the riverbank" in Spanish, referring to the beach's position at the mouth of the Suances estuary in Cantabria. Bathers share the shoreline with the tidal channel where the river meets the Cantabrian Sea, and the sand flats left at low tide are used for walking and digging for shellfish.

The beach has showers, drinking water stations, and parking areas for visitors. A rescue service is stationed there during the warmer months.

The bay's natural shape shelters the water from rougher Cantabrian Sea conditions. This creates consistently calm waters that make swimming more enjoyable regardless of offshore weather.