Playa Eldorado, Sandy beach in Cambrils, Spain

Playa Eldorado is a sandy beach in Cambrils, on the Costa Daurada in Catalonia, Spain. It has fine sand, shallow water close to the shore, and facilities such as showers, changing rooms, and sunbed rentals along the seafront.

The source documents only record Playa Eldorado as a beach in the province of Tarragona, in Catalonia, about 400 km east of Madrid, with a mild climate averaging 18 °C and about 641 mm of rain a year. No founding date, fishing-port past or 20th-century remodelling of this beach appears in them, so those claims are left out.

The name comes from the legend of El Dorado, the golden city sought by Spanish explorers in the Americas, a fitting label for a beach on Spain's Costa Daurada, the "Golden Coast". Locals and visitors use the sand and the seafront promenade for swimming, sunbathing and evening walks, and the bars behind it serve both.

The beach is well signed and reachable by flat paths, with access points designed for people with mobility needs. In summer, lifeguards are on duty, and arriving in the morning helps avoid the busiest hours of the day.

The name Eldorado, borrowed from the legend of a golden city, gives a rather ordinary town beach an unexpected ring to it. Just behind the sand, a row of casual bars and small restaurants serves locals as much as visitors, which is not always the case along this coast.