Rincón is known as "The Surfing Capital of the Caribbean" and also as "The Town of Beautiful Sunsets." 

The town of Rincón is located in the Western Coastal Valley, west of Añasco and Aguada. To the north, Rincón nestles between La Cadena Mountains and a series of beaches facing the Atlantic to the north and the Caribbean to the south. 

The half-dozen reef-lined Atlantic beaches have become a winter mecca for skilled surfers since the World Surfing Championship was held here nearly twenty years ago.

Endangered humpback whales visit in the winter. 

The Punta Higuero Lighthouse was built by the Spaniards in the early 1890s and rebuilt after an earthquake in 1921.

This lighthouse still in use and uses an unmanned 26,000-candlepower rotating beacon.