Beaches of Galicia

The coast of Galicia corresponds to the NW end of the Iberian Penninsula and extends from the estuary of the Eo River, in the north, to the mouth of the Mino River in the border with Portugal. This coast has distinctive characteristics compared with the rest of the Atlantic Iberian coasts given the importance of geological and structural controls that define the deeply indented coastline. Although is a coast exposed to a energetic storm and swell wave regime, at different scales there are great variations in the orientation of the coastline that causes a high variability in the exposition and the energetic regime.