Tourist attraction
Playa Mamitas
Lively white-sand beach lined with clubs and daybeds, facing straight into the open Caribbean.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Playa Mamitas in Playa del Carmen follows Chuanmin Hu, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida who has been watching this stretch of the Caribbean from space since two thousand six. It asks how a satellite can pick out floating seaweed from open water, and why this unsheltered beach sits squarely in the path of what the current brings. Best heard at the waterline, looking out to the horizon.
This audio guide was created using AI.