Baru Playa Blanca
Powder-white coral sand beach on an island severed from the mainland by a colonial-era canal.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Baru Playa Blanca, near Cartagena, opens with the vendor calls that fill the beach and asks why an island of powder white sand sits here at all. It traces the answer to Spanish colonial engineers who altered the coastline centuries ago while trying to link the bay to the Magdalena River. Coral reefs still hold on in the water just offshore, feeding the fish that draw snorkelers past the sunbathers.
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