Playa del Pilón

La Guajira Peninsula


Playa del Pilón, far and away the most beautiful beach in Cabo, is a vivid orange-sand beach lapped by surprisingly cool waters and framed by low, rocky cliffs. Spectacular at any time of day, the colors are especially impressive at sunrise and sunset. In the wet season add lush desert flora to the mix and the whole scene is rather cinematic.

Wayuu people sell drinks and hire hammocks from open-sided huts at the edge of the car park overlooking the beach.


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Nearby La Guajira Peninsula attractions

1. Pilón de Azúcar

0.29 MILES

Pilón de Azúcar looms over the eponymous beach and provides the area's most telescopic viewpoint, with the whole of Alta Guajira displayed before you and…

2. Ojo de Agua

2.7 MILES

This remote-feeling and craggily beautiful crescent-shaped dark-sand beach is bound by 5m-high cliffs where iguanas roam. The beach gets its name from a…

3. El Faro

3.04 MILES

Wayuu and tourists alike head to El Faro, a small lighthouse at the edge of a rocky promontory, for stiff winds and tangerine sunsets. The view is…