Zipolite, Clothing-optional beach in San Pedro Pochutla Municipality, Mexico

Zipolite is a 1.75-kilometre sandy beach in San Pedro Pochutla Municipality, Oaxaca, on Mexico's Pacific coast. The light tan sand forms a half-moon along the shoreline, with dark rocks breaking the surface in the foreground and dry brown hills rising behind scattered white buildings.

Archaeological finds at the beach's east end show long earlier occupation, but through the first half of the 20th century only one family lived here and it was a fishing village. From 1969 counterculture hippies arrived, drawn by its isolation and weak law enforcement, and in the 1970s and 1980s it gained a reputation as a free-love paradise. Hurricane Pauline destroyed nearly everything on 7 October 1997, and a fire on 21 February 2001 burned many wood and palm-thatched structures.

The name Zipolite comes from Zapotec and means "beach of the dead"; one account says the Zapotecs brought their dead from far away to be buried here, another links it to the dangerous offshore currents. Since the 1960s the beach has drawn hippies and backpackers, and nudism has been common for decades. In January 2016 it hosted the 6th Latin American Naturism Gathering.

Zipolite lies 3 km from Puerto Ángel and 230 km from Oaxaca de Juárez; the nearest airport is Bahías de Huatulco, about 40 km east, while Puerto Escondido is roughly 60 km west. The town spreads along a 1.75 km beach with the Adoquín as its center; banks and currency exchange are in Pochutla, though ATMs sit at Playa Zipolite Hotel, below Move Gym and at Sabor A Mar. The rainy season runs June to October, when currents strengthen.

Zipolite hosted the 6th Latin American Naturism Meeting from 28 to 30 January 2016, an event that confirmed its standing as Mexico's first and only legal public nude beach. The beach's Zapotec name, "beach of the dead", is linked by locals to the strong offshore currents that still make swimming hazardous.