Libertador Bolívar
🏖️ Libertador Bolívar
A beach comuna officially named Atravezado, between Valdivia and San Antonio.
Libertador Bolívar (officially the comuna of Atravezado) is a coastal comuna of Manglaralto parish on the Ruta del Spondylus, between Valdivia and San Antonio.
| At a glance | |
|---|---|
| Parish | Manglaralto, Santa Elena canton |
| Beach | About 1.3 km, with its own estuary |
| Water | Junta Regional de Manglaralto |
| Bus | Any Ruta del Spondylus bus from Terminal Sumpa |
What to expect
A quiet fishing village with one of the longer beaches on this stretch. From here, San Antonio's crafts and Cadeate's clay-oven bread are a few minutes north, and the Valdivia museum a few minutes south.
Did you know…?
💧 …most villages on the north coast pump their own groundwater through community water boards?
See also
Sources: PDOT cantón Santa Elena 2023–2027 (pp. 87, 220); PDOT Provincia de Santa Elena 2015–2019 (p. 216).
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