Valdevaqueros | |
Settlement Type: | Village and beach |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Province of Cádiz#Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Province of Cádiz |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Cádiz |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Campo de Gibraltar |
Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name4: | Tarifa |
Subdivision Type5: | Judicial district |
Subdivision Name5: | Algeciras |
Coordinates: | 36.0672°N -5.6781°W |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Blank Name Sec1: | Official language(s) |
Blank Info Sec1: | Spanish |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Valdevaqueros is a village and beach in the municipality of Tarifa in the Province of Cadiz in southern Spain. It is located by road to the northwest of Tarifa. Casa de Porros is a hamlet in the northwestern part. the beach measures about by about on average. Valdevaqueros has the Spin Out Kite surfing centre, established in 1988,[1] 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. Behind a large dune created to protect the Punta Paloma coastal battery (currently dismantled).[2] Arroyo Valdevaqueros, on the eastern entrance point has several houses and a coast-guard station.[3] 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.