Percheles, golden sand beach in Cañada de Gallego, Mazarrón, Spain

Percheles is a golden-sand beach on the Mediterranean coast of Mazarrón, in the Region of Murcia. Its roughly 290-metre shoreline of fine sand faces the bay between the Sierra de las Moreras and the sea, with dunes and farmland behind it. The southern stretch is set aside for naturist use.

Percheles lies at the foot of the Sierra de las Moreras, whose mining past shaped the coast around Mazarrón. The beach remained free of the large hotel developments built at Puerto de Mazarrón and Bolnuevo from the 1960s onward, and it was kept within the protected coastal strip of the Sierra de las Moreras. Its sand and dunes are therefore still the original ones.

Percheles lies in the Mazarrón district of Cañada de Gallego, an area of dryland farming and greenhouses; the beach takes its name from the nearby Percheles gully. Bathers share the shoreline with growers working the fields behind the sand, and the chiringuito on the beach serves the catch and produce of the area.

You can reach the beach via an unpaved road from kilometer 3900 of the A-42, where parking is available for roughly 400 vehicles. It's smart to arrive in early morning or late afternoon on sunny days to find space.

The beach lies beside the protected Sierra de las Moreras, and the sand continues south past the naturist stretch toward the cove of Calnegre. The surrounding land is part of a protected area, so the shoreline keeps its open, undeveloped profile.