Playa de Santa Ana, Beach in Querúas, Valdés, Spain
Playa de Santa Ana is a beach in the village of Querúas, in the Valdés municipality of western Asturias, within the Paisaje protegido de la Costa Occidental de Asturias. It forms a soft shell-shaped cove about 150 m long and 40 m wide, with dark medium-grained sand mixed with large stone slabs, enclosed by large cliffs.
The beach belongs to the village of Querúas in the council of Valdés, on Asturias' western coast. It lies within the Paisaje protegido de la Costa Occidental de Asturias, a protected coastal landscape; the sources record no earlier fishing history or conservation designation date for the cove itself.
The beach belongs to the village of Querúas, and the route to it is described by the only telephone box in the village: take the track on the left, then keep right at each of the next two forks. The sand lies at the mouth of a stream where a flock of crested cormorants is almost always present.
To reach the beach, find Querúas and head to its only telephone box; take the track on the left, then the right-hand path at the next two forks. A small car park sits about 20 m from a waterfall and the beach entrance. The beach has no services.
At the river mouth at one end of the beach, a flock of crested cormorants is almost always present. The beach has no services at all, and the recommended activities are spearfishing and rod fishing.
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