Playa

Playa (plural playas) may refer to:

Landforms

• Sink (geography), also known as an alkali flat or sabkha, a desert basin with no outlet which periodically fills with water to form a temporary lake
• Dry lake, commonly called a playa in the southwest US and Mexico
• Playa is the Spanish language word for beach

Named playas

• Nabta Playa, Nubian Desert
• Racetrack Playa, Death Valley
• Willcox Playa, Arizona, USA
• Petregan playa, Iran
• Pilot Valley Playa, Utah, USA

Populated places

• Playa (Ponce), a barrio of Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Playa, Havana, one of the 15 municipalities of the City of Havana, Cuba
• Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
• Playa del Rey, Los Angeles, California, a beach community
• Playas, New Mexico
• Playas, Ecuador
• Playas, Guayas, Ecuador
• Playas de Rosarito, Baja California
• Playas de Tijuana, Mexico
• Kralendijk, the capital city of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
• Playa del Inglés, Canary Islands
• Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca
• Playa Blanca, Lanzarote
• Playa Vicente, Veracruz, Mexico
• Playa de las Américas, Tenerife

Other

• The Playa, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, site of Burning Man
• Playa (band), an American R&B trio
• Playa, colloquial spelling of "player"; see Player (dating)
• Playas de Castellón FS, an indoor football (indoor soccer) team

See also

• Cienega, a Spanish Colonial term for a spring