Playa Cautivo
🏖️ Playa Cautivo
Playa Cautivo is a beach of about 1 km in the north-west of La Libertad.
Playa Cautivo is a beach of about 1 km in the north-west of La Libertad. The neighbourhood behind it, Cautivo, keeps English-style houses built in the 1920s for the managers of the Anglo Ecuadorian oil company; the municipality counted 12 heritage houses here in 2024.
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Source: PDOT La Libertad 2014–2019 (p. 127); 2024–2030 (pp. 195–196).
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