Playa de Oriñón, Beach in Oriñón, Castro-Urdiales, Spain

Playa de Oriñón lies at the mouth of the Agüera River, where it forms the ría of Oriñón in the Castro-Urdiales municipality of Cantabria. The beach is enclosed between two rocky outcrops: a large rock wall above the village of Oriñón on the left and the hill crossed by the Hoz tunnels of the A-8 on the right.

The beach lies at the mouth of the Agüera River, where it opens into the Ría de Oriñón before reaching the Cantabrian Sea, in the Castro-Urdiales municipality of Cantabria. The river mouth is enclosed between two rocky outcrops: a large rock wall above the village of Oriñón on the left and the hill crossed by the Hoz tunnels of the A-8 motorway on the right.

Oriñón is a small coastal village in Castro-Urdiales, and its beach sits at the mouth of the Agüera River, where the river forms the Ría de Oriñón. The beach is enclosed between two rocky outcrops: on the left a large rock wall above the village, on the right the hill crossed by the Hoz tunnels of the A-8 motorway.

The beach offers parking facilities and marked pathways from the village, with lifeguard services during summer months. Visitors should plan around the tidal patterns, as the water line shifts significantly between high and low tide.

At low tide the water withdraws more than 500 metres, exposing sand that reaches toward the ría, the mouth of the Agüera River. The beach lies between two rock outcrops: a large rock wall above the village of Oriñón on the left and the hill pierced by the Hoz tunnels of the A-8 on the right.