Where is the smallest beach?

That's right – Gulpiyuri beach in Llanes, Asturias is backwards. The usual mountain-sand-sea landscape is the wrong way round, and the sea stops at the mountain on the 'horizon'. It's also largely thought to be the smallest beach in the world.



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Playa de Gulpiyuri is a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, in Asturias Northern Spain, around 100 m from the Cantabrian Sea. It is the shortest beach in the world.

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Gulpiyuri is a spot full of peculiarities. First of all, as already mentioned, it is the smallest beach in the world. With its 40 meters long, this is how it is considered all over the planet. In addition, it has no direct access to the sea.

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Australia's coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometres and is linked by over 10,000 beaches, more than any other country in the world.

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The deepest sea found within swimming distance of a beach is the Mariana Trench, which is located in the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii has some of the deepest drop offs in the world where the eroded shoreline is very close to deep water.

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Beaches Were Formed 3.3 Billion Years Ago The team realised that the earth's most ancient rocks rose from the first-ever beach. This study was concluded that the Singhbhum craton of Jharkhand first came above sea around 3.3 billion years ago and is one of the most ancient beaches on earth.

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1. Los Cristianos, Tenerife, Spain. When it comes to warm weather and beaches in Europe, Spain usually has the best offer. It will probably require an extra flight to visit the warmest ones since these are in the spectacular Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands.

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