Boca Chica has always been very popular with Dominicans living in the capital city. Weekend in weekend out, and especially on Sunday and public holidays, Dominican families go out to spend the day on this beach, which can get really crowded. In addition to locals, tourists spending their holidays in nearby hotels and lodgings also come to Boca Chica.

Its proximity to the city of Santo Domingo, its crystal clear water and white sand have turned Boca Chica into the busiest beach in the Dominican Republic. Offshore there are two small islets: Los Pinos, built with the sand dredged out from the port of Andrés in the 1950s, and La Matica, a key featuring mangrove swamps, where a host of bird species live. Boca Chica beach has a natural breakwater as well as a freshwater spring rising up from the Brujuelas underground (actually underwater) river.