Playa del Matorral
Long golden-sand beach in Morro Jable, next to the lighthouse and salt marsh.

Playa del Matorral runs along the south of Fuerteventura in Morro Jable and is one of the longest and busiest beaches on the island. Its wide strip of pale sand, warm and calm waters and the protected salt marsh behind it, watched over by the Morro Jable lighthouse, make it a much-loved spot. It flies a blue flag and has a quieter naturist section at one end.
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