Location

In Jaramijó, next to Manta.

CASA A12 and CASA C5 are inside Punta Blanca Urbanización y Club de Playa, a gated community on the cliff above Jaramijó bay. The Punta Arrecife house is in the gated community of the same name, also in Jaramijó and beside the sea.

Punta Blanca

Manta airport: 8 minutes
Bus terminal: 9 minutes
Jaramijó fish market: 4 minutes
Mall del Pacífico: 19 minutes
El Murciélago beach: 19 minutes

Approximate driving times from Punta Blanca. They can be longer in traffic.

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The community from the air, with the fishing port of Jaramijó and the coast beyond.

Punta Arrecife

Manta airport: 9 minutes
Bus terminal: 10 minutes
Jaramijó fish market: 7 minutes
Mall del Pacífico: 20 minutes
El Murciélago beach: 19 minutes

Approximate driving times from Punta Arrecife. They can be longer in traffic.

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The view from the house: the community street, the beach club and the sea out to the horizon.

CASA A12 and CASA C5 are inside Punta Blanca Urbanización y Club de Playa, in Jaramijó, the canton next to Manta, in the province of Manabí. The community sits on a cliff facing the bay.

On arrival

Punta Blanca has a single entrance, with a gatehouse and a guard 24 hours a day. You identify yourself at the gatehouse and drive in to the house's parking space.

What is nearby

The fish market beside Jaramijó's artisanal fishing port opens before dawn and is 4 minutes from Punta Blanca.
Mall del Pacífico, in Manta, is 19 minutes away.
El Murciélago beach, in Manta, is about 19 minutes away.
Inside Punta Blanca there is a pool, a playground and a boardwalk to walk along the sea.

The Punta Arrecife community

The Punta Arrecife house is in the gated community of the same name, in Jaramijó, beside the sea.

Inside the community there is a pool, a barbecue area and a beach club with a lagoon, sand and umbrellas.

It is on the Manta to Jaramijó road, a kilometre from Punta Blanca in the direction of Manta.

Outings and beaches

What visitors to this coast ask about most, with the drive from the houses.

Montecristi22 minutes: The town where toquilla straw hats are woven, a craft UNESCO added to its list of intangible cultural heritage in 2012.
Pacoche forest40 minutes: A wildlife refuge with a trail of about two kilometres, the Pasaje del Mono, where howler monkeys are heard and seen. Guides from the community lead the walk.
Crucita40 minutes: A beach town to the north known for paragliding: flights take off from La Loma, at the southern end of the beach.
San Lorenzo beach40 minutes: A beach where olive ridley turtles nest. Vehicles are kept off the sand to protect the nests.
Santa Marianita beach43 minutes: A four-kilometre beach south of Manta known for kitesurfing, with schools on the beach itself.
Los Frailes beach1 hr 50 min: A beach inside Machalilla National Park.
Puerto López1 hr 50 min: From June to September boats leave from here to see humpback whales, and all year for Isla de la Plata.

Approximate driving times, as Google Maps gives them for a weekday morning (looked up on October 13, 2026). They can be longer in traffic.

The practical things

For groceries, the Megamaxi supermarket is inside Mall del Pacífico, in Manta.
Manta's general hospital, Dr. Rafael Rodríguez Zambrano, is about 25 minutes away.
The day's fish and seafood are sold beside Jaramijó's fishing port.

The entrance building of the Punta Blanca community, with the sea behind the houses.

The community pool from above, with the white shade sail and the playground beside the cliff.

The community boardwalk at sunset: palms, a timber railing and the sun over the bay.

The beach club at Punta Arrecife: a lagoon with sand, palm trees and thatched umbrellas, and the sea behind.