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Flamenco Beach lies on Culebra’s northwestern shore, curving around Bahía Flamenco with Flamenco Lagoon behind it and calm turquoise water partly sheltered by an offshore reef. Named for flamingos once common in the lagoon, it adjoins the Culebra National Wildlife Refuge and supports rich marine and bird life, including sea turtles, ghost crabs, parrot fish, blue tang, wrasse, and nesting seabirds on the Flamenco Peninsula. The beach also bears traces of a different past: two rusting M4 Sherman tanks left after the United States Navy ended more than 30 years of weapons testing there in 1975. Today it is both a public beach and an internationally recognized destination.
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