Playa Luna, Nude beach in Puchuncaví, Chile

Playa Luna is the only recognised nude beach in Chile, at the end of the long beach of Horcón in the commune of Puchuncaví, Valparaíso Region, between Horcón and Maitencillo. Grey-tan sand scattered with dry seaweed slopes gently to the water; behind a wooden post-and-rail fence, low green and reddish groundcover gives way to a layered rock cliff, with a low concrete wall along the waterline.

Naturists moved here from Cau-Cau beach in Horcón after condominium building in the 1990s; the site, formerly called Playa La Iglesia, was named Playa Luna on 30 January 2000 by photographer René Rojas and his group. In 2001 a judge ruled nudism there was not illegal, after Rojas held Chile's first nudism gathering at the beach.

The name comes from photographer René Rojas, who with a group of nudists named the beach on 30 January 2000 and later formed the Playa Luna Club. Each summer hundreds of Chilean and foreign visitors gather here, and the site forms part of an environmental reserve where the Dominican gull nests.

The beach is easiest to reach by car along the coastal roads south of Viña del Mar or north of Papudo, as the location is fairly remote. There are few facilities nearby, so it is worth coming prepared with water and supplies.

The beach was founded by naturism activist René Rojas, who organized the move and built the community around the new location. To this day the spot is largely self-managed by the naturist community that uses it.