Valdevaqueros is a village and beach in the municipality of

Tarifa Tarifa (, Arabic: طريفة) is a Spanish municipality in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. Located at the southernmost end of the Iberian Peninsula, it is primarily known as one of the world's most popular destinations for windsports. Tarifa ...

in the

Province of Cadiz A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

in southern Spain. It is located by road to the northwest of

. Casa de Porros is a hamlet in the northwestern part. the beach measures about by about on average. Valdevaqueros has the Spin Out

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centre, established in 1988, and beachhouse and several hotels and a camping site and is a busy beach during the summer months, and borders the

Playa de Los Lances The playa de Los Lances ( en, Beach of Los Lances) is a beach that forms one side of the town of Tarifa, in the region of Campo de Gibraltar in Andalusia, Spain. The beach is long from Punta de la Peña to Punta de Tarifa, with an average width ...

. Behind a large dune created to protect the

Punta Paloma Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music originating in the Caribbean Island of Saint Vincent And The Grenadines by the Garifuna people before being exiled from the island. Which is also known as Yurumei. It has African and Arawak ...

coastal battery Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications. From the Middle Ages until World War II, coastal artillery and naval artillery in the form of c ...

(currently dismantled). Arroyo Valdevaqueros, on the eastern entrance point has several houses and a coast-guard station. In the western part of the beach is the mouth of the river valley that forms a broad estuary that runs along the beach a few metres from the sea until reaching several hundred metres east. File:Playa de Valdevaqueros, Tarifa (Cádiz).JPG, Playa de Valdevaqueros during busy summer season File:Vista de Valdevaqueros.jpg, View of Valdevaqueros from inland

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Populated places in the Province of Cádiz Tarifa Beaches of Andalusia {{Andalusia-geo-stub