Playa
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Playa (plural playas) may refer to:
Landforms[edit]
- 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
- Playa is the Spanish language word for beach
Named playas[edit]
- Nabta Playa, Nubian Desert
- Racetrack Playa, Death Valley
- Willcox Playa, Arizona, USA
- Petregan playa, Iran
- Pilot Valley Playa, Utah, USA
Populated places[edit]
- 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[edit]
- The Playa, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, site of Burning Man
- Playa (band), an American R&B trio
- Playa, colloquial and/or African American Vernacular English spelling of "player"; see Player (dating)
- Playas de Castellón FS, an indoor football (indoor soccer) team
- "Playa Boi", a song by Cher Lloyd off of her 2011 album Sticks + Stones
See also[edit]
- Cienega, a Spanish Colonial term for a spring
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