Playa El Desnarigado is a small beach of

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, a Spanish city bordering northern

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. The beach is about 80 metres in length with an average width of about six metres. The beach is named after ''the Desnarigado'' who was said to be a

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. He had worked and then escaped in mines in the Riff mountains. He was named ''the Desnarigado'' as this means without a nose which was the method of marking those who worked in the mines.

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