Vega Baja
Discover the river plains, salt lagoons and coastal towns of the Vega Baja comarca.
What is plotted on the Vega Baja map
The map carries 4 places on this coast: 2 towns, 1 beach, 1 natural park. They span roughly 16 km in a straight line, from Guardamar Dunes (Guardamar del Segura) in the north to Torrevieja in the south.
The Vega Baja coast, north to south
Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.
| Place | Type | From previous |
|---|---|---|
| Guardamar Dunes (Guardamar del Segura) A vast belt of pine-forested sand dunes backing the long beaches of Guardamar del Segura — a century-old reforestation project | Beach | — |
| Guardamar del Segura Guardamar del Segura is a quieter, greener coastal town where the Segura meets the sea, with beaches, a century-old pine | Town | 4 km |
| Pink Lake of Torrevieja (Laguna Rosa) A salt lagoon near Torrevieja whose water turns vivid pink, part of a natural park of salt flats that also | Natural park | 11 km |
| Torrevieja Coastal town on the southern Costa Blanca famed for two contrasting salt lagoons in the Lagunas de La Mata y | Town | 3 km |
By what you are looking for
Town (2): Guardamar del Segura, Torrevieja
Beach (1): Guardamar Dunes (Guardamar del Segura)
Natural park (1): Pink Lake of Torrevieja (Laguna Rosa)
How to read the map
Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.
For the coast written up as a single read, see the region page.
Sand, salt lagoons and the Segura
The Vega Baja is the flat southern end of the Costa Blanca, shaped by the Segura river and two salt lagoons. Torrevieja’s lake turns pink from the algae and bacteria in its brine. At Guardamar, a pine forest planted in the nineteenth century stopped the dunes from burying the town outright.
Town guides in this comarca
- Torrevieja — next to a lake that turns pink
- Guardamar del Segura — planted with pines to stop the dunes burying the town
- Orihuela — a Baroque city most beach visitors never reach
- Almoradí — artichoke country, rebuilt after the 1829 earthquake
- Callosa de Segura — hemp-rope heritage under a limestone ridge
For the coast as a whole, see the full Costa Blanca map or the Costa Blanca guide.