Playa Porto Marie (Playa Porto Maria in Papiamento) is a beach on the Caribbean island of
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
, located near the village of
Sint Willibrordus
Sint Willibrordus is a village in Bandabou on the western half of Curaçao, northwest of the Bullen Bay and about 25 km from the capital Willemstad. The village has been called this since the dedication of the church in 1888; until then, the town ...
, at the
Porto Marie Bay
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...
. The beach is used as a starting point for scuba diving and snorkeling. There is a small bar.
Porto Marie Beach is experimenting with
artificial coral reefs in order to improve the reef's condition, having placed hundreds of artificial coral blocks.
References
Curaçao Beaches Tourism Curaçao
Beaches of Curaçao
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