Playa (disambiguation)
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Landforms
- Sink (geography)Sink (geography)A geographic sink is a depression within an endorheic basin where water collects with no visible outlet. Instead of discharging, the collected water is lost due to evaporation and/or penetration...
, also known as an alkali flat or sabkhaSabkhaSabkha is a transliteration of the Arabic word for a salt flat. Sabkhas are supratidal, forming along arid coastlines and are characterized by evaporite-carbonate deposits with some siliciclastics. Sabkhas form subaerial, prograding and shoaling-upward sequences that have an average thickness of a...
, a desert basin with no outlet which periodically fills with water to form a temporary lake - Dry lakeDry lakeDry lakes are ephemeral lakebeds, or a remnant of an endorheic lake. Such flats consist of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali salts. Dry lakes are also referred to as alkali flats, sabkhas, playas or mud flats...
, commonly called a playa in the southwest US and Mexico - Playa is the Spanish languageSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
word for beachBeachA beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...
Named playas
- Nabta PlayaNabta PlayaNabta Playa was once a large basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern day Cairo or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, 22° 32' north, 30° 42' east...
, Nubian Desert - Racetrack PlayaRacetrack PlayaThe Racetrack Playa, or The Racetrack, is a scenic dry lake feature with "sailing stones" that leave linear "racetrack" imprints. It is located above the northwestern side of Death Valley, in Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California, U.S.....
, Death Valley - Willcox PlayaWillcox PlayaThe Willcox Playa is a large endorheic dry lake or sink in Cochise County. It is located south of and adjacent to Willcox, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert ecoregion. It is the remnant of Pleistocene pluvial Lake Cochise...
, Arizona, USA - Petregan playaPetregan playaPetregan playa is a playa in eastern part of Iran next to the border with Afghanistan.It is located in the Zirkuh County of the Qaenat Township in the Razavi Khorasan Province....
, Iran - Pilot Valley PlayaPilot Valley Playa, UtahThe Pilot Valley Playa is a playa and salt pan in Box Elder County, Utah and Elko County, Nevada that is a remnant of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville. Located in northwestern Utah and northeastern Nevada, the Pilot Valley Playa varies from five to ten miles wide, and is thirty miles long, with an...
, Utah, USA
Populated places
- Playa (Ponce)Playa (Ponce)La Playa de Ponce, Ponce Playa, La Playa, or simply Playa, is one of the thirty-one barrios that comprise the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Bucaná, Canas, Vayas, and Capitanejo, Playa is one of the municipality's five coastal barrios...
, a barrio of Ponce, Puerto Rico - Playa, HavanaPlaya, HavanaPlaya is one of the 15 municipalities of the City of Havana, Cuba. It is the most north-western of them. It stretches from the Almendares River in the east, to Santa Fe in the west. On the north is the sea. The word "playa" means "beach" in Spanish....
, one of the 15 municipalities of the City of Havana, Cuba - Playa del CarmenPlaya del CarmenPlaya del Carmen is a balneario resort city just south of Cancún on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the northeast of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The city is the seat of the Solidaridad municipality. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 149,923 people and it is rapidly growing...
, Quintana Roo, Mexico - Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPlaya del Rey, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPlaya del Rey is a beachside community within the city of Los Angeles, California. It has a ZIP code of 90293 and area codes of 310 and 424...
, a beach community - Playas, New MexicoPlayas, New MexicoPlayas was a small unincorporated town in Hidalgo County, the "bootheel" of the southwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico.It is a former company town, named after a nearby former settlement along the Southern Pacific Railroad...
- Playas, Ecuador
- Playas, Guayas, Ecuador
- Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
- Playas de TijuanaPlayas de TijuanaPlayas de Tijuana is the westernmost borough of the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California.-Location:The borough of Playas de Tijuana is located in the city of Tijuana, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the United States to the north, the municipality of Playas de Rosarito to the south...
, Mexico - KralendijkKralendijkKralendijk is the capital city and main port of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands. The language spoken in the town is Papiamentu, but Dutch and English are widely used. In Dutch, Kralendijk means "coral reef" or "coral dike". The Papiamentu name for the town is Playa or "beach"...
, the capital city of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles - Playa del InglésPlaya del InglésPlaya del Inglés is a sea resort in the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria. It is a zone part of Maspalomas, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, and is a popular tourist attraction, particularly among the gay community in Northern Europe.-Overview:It has a long beach made of...
, Canary Islands - Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca
- Playa BlancaPlaya BlancaPlaya Blanca, meaning "White Beach" is the southernmost town of the Spanish island of Lanzarote. It is the newest, yet fastest growing resort on the Island...
, Lanzarote - Playa VicentePlaya VicentePlaya Vicente is a municipality located in the south zone of the State of Veracruz, about 220 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 2,122.14 km2. It is located at .-Geographic Limits:...
, Veracruz, Mexico - Playa de las AméricasPlaya de las AméricasPlaya de las Américas is a purpose-built holiday resort in the northern part of the Municipality of Arona, close to the adjoining Municipality of Adeje in the south of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. It was built in the 1960s beside the town of Los Cristianos and stretching northward to the...
, Tenerife
Other
- The Playa, Black Rock DesertBlack Rock DesertThe Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan...
, Nevada, site of Burning ManBurning ManBurning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening... - Playa (band)Playa (band)Playa was an American R&B/hip-hop group. Composed of Smoke E. Digglera , Digital Black , and the late Static Major , Playa is best known for their 1998 hit album, "Cheers 2 U", produced by longtime collaborator Timbaland...
, an American R&B trio - Playa, colloquial spelling of "player"; see Player (dating)
- Playas de Castellón FSPlayas de Castellón FSPlayas de Castellón Fútbol Sala is a futsal club based in Castellón, city of the province of Castellón in the Spanish autonomous community of Valencian Community.Its local pavilion is Ciutat de Castelló with a capacity of 4,500....
, an indoor football (indoor soccer) team