La Sirena Beach (Spanish: Playa La Sirena) is a beach located around two kilometers north of Aguas Dulces resort, in Rocha Department, Uruguay. It was officially designated as a naturist beach by the authorities of the government of Rocha.
La Sirena Beach
Playa La Sirena | |
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  La Sirena Beach | |
| Coordinates: 34°15′30″S 53°45′58″W / 34.258462°S 53.766223°W | |
| Location | Aguas Dulces, Castillos Municipality, Rocha, Uruguay |
Description
editIt is located at two and a half kilometers north from the beach of Aguas Dulces resort town. It can be reached going from Aguas Dulces, walking from the end of Cachimba y Faroles street through the beach or the sand dunes until reaching the sign posts.[1]
It is a wide beach of thin sands in along the Atlantic Ocean shore, surrounded by sand dunes covered by psammophile vegetation, with minor wetlands, ponds and acacia trees.[2]
Features
editLa Sirena is a naturist beach, specially authorized by the department authorities for practising naturism and nudism, although it is a clothing-optional beach, not being mandatory to enter completely naked. It is the second naturist beach of Uruguay after Chihuahua beach in Maldonado Department, and it opened as such in 2012.[3]
As in every beach, there are rules about hygiene and protection of the environment, but there are also specific rules related to this kind of beach: to respect the personal space of the other naturist people, to not stare at other persons persistently or in a lustful way, nor to take photos or record videos of anyone without their consent.[2]
The beach does not have its own lifeguard support and its tourist infrastructure is underdeveloped,[2] therefore, in order to seek for housing or food is necessary to travel to Aguas Dulces resort.[3] For tourism-related inquiries, these can be done at the tourist information office of the government of Rocha, in the crossing of Route 16 and Cachimba y Flores street in Aguas Dulces resort.[1]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "La Sirena: segunda playa nudista en Uruguay". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). 23 January 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b c Cano, Eshter (18 November 2021). "Así es la nueva playa de Uruguay en donde se puede practicar la desnudez total". MDZ Online (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ a b "Playa La Sirena". TurismoenRocha.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 November 2021.
External links
edit- Playa Naturista La Sirena (in Spanish), official tourism website of the government of Rocha Department