Manaure Bay

Manaure lies on the dry Caribbean shore of the Guajira peninsula, where shallow coastal flats yield salt under the strong sun and wind. Wayuu communities have harvested sea salt here for generations. Salt extraction and exchange in the wider Guajira region predate European colonisation, drawing on the peninsula’s combination of saline waters, high temperatures and scarce rainfall. The flats form a distinctive part of this low, arid coastline.