Boucan Canot Beach, White sand beach in Saint-Paul, France.

Boucan Canot is a 750-metre sand beach on Réunion's west coast in Saint-Paul, between Cap Homard to the south and Cap Boucan Canot to the north. Pale sand meets the water along a gently curving shoreline, with a low dark stone wall separating the beach from buildings and palms behind it. A sea-water pool built from black volcanic rocks since 1965 sits at the northern end.

The beach's name comes from the straw huts, called boucans, that fishermen built here, and from their small traditional boats, the canons. A seawater pool made from black volcanic rock found on site was built at the northern end in 1965 and renovated in 2017. A shark net has protected one section since 11 December 2015, after fatal attacks including those on bodyboarder Eddy Auber and surfer Mathieu Schiller in 2011.

The name comes from the fishermen who once built small straw huts called boucans on the sand and kept traditional boats called canons. Today the beach draws a young crowd, mostly teenagers, and Zoreilles (people from metropolitan France) are said to be more numerous here than elsewhere. Couples with small children tend to prefer the lagoon-protected beaches further south.

Access from Route nationale 1A is via a ramp descending to the sea, then a short two-way street that becomes a one-way lane marked by bollards, passing an hotel and shops before crossing the redeveloped back-beach. The sand lies below on the right, reached by wooden stairs through a thin shaded strip. The southern part, near the Ravine de Boucan and Cap Homard, is unsupervised and swimming is prohibited there.

The seawater pool at the northern end was built in 1965 from black volcanic rock found on site and was renovated in 2017. It forms a short breakwater jutting into the ocean, and bathers use it when the orange flag signals a rough sea.