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Tarapaca

Chile

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Characteristics
  Arica and Iquique have plenty of hawaiian style reef breaks. In the South part of the North zone you will find a great variety of breaks waves and reefs. It's often big and gnarly.

The best season is between May to August, although that generally there is waves all the year.
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  Surf Spot Photo GPS Quality Direction Type Frequency Level
1 Barrancon right and left reef-rocky all surfers
2 Cavancha right and left sand-bar all surfers
3 Colegio 17  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
4 El Brazo right and left reef-rocky all surfers
5 El Buey right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
6 El Gringo 25  right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
7 El Rancio 12  right reef-rocky experienced surfers
8 El Toro viejo left point-break experienced surfers
9 El Tubo right beach-break beginners wave
10 Intendencia left reef-rocky experienced surfers
11 La Bestia left reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
12 La Isla left point-break all surfers
13 Las Urracas left reef-rocky experienced surfers
14 Mauro left reef-rocky experienced surfers
15 Punta 1 right reef-rocky experienced surfers
16 Punta 2 right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers


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Surfing Season
Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
Best Surfing Season
Regular Swell

Regular Swell

Best season

Best season

Best season

Occasional Swell
Typical Swell Size
1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

1.5m-2m / 5ft-6ft

2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft

1.5m-2m / 5ft-6ft

1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
Surf Equipment Springsuit Fullsuit Fullsuit Fullsuit Fullsuit Fullsuit
Water temp. 19°C
66°F
19°C
66°F
18°C
64°F
16°C
61°F
17°C
63°F
18°C
64°F
Air temp. 23°C
73°F
22°C
72°F
18°C
64°F
16°C
61°F
17°C
63°F
20°C
68°F
Climate            

Dominant Swell and Wind Direction :
There is waves all the year round because of the Roaring Fourties. Wind: mostly S-SE. Go surf in the morning.

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El Gringo, Chile
By timbird79, 2007-04-29 01:24:03

The tide was too high this morning but i've been surfing it for the past 5 days. It was only small (and when i say small some of the sets were 2-3m) and breaking real close to the rocks so when you didn't make the takeoff (which is often) you
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comment by Anonymous, 2008-04-13 12:49:10


I love Arica! I will be back soon!

comment by Anonymous, 2008-02-29 13:24:12


...one of the best surf cities in the world... great city, beautiful waves, perfect climate, warm water and delicious sea-food!!!

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