SURF ATLAS/ CENTRAL AMERICA
Salsa Brava
🇨🇷 Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Costa Rica's heaviest wave, a shallow Caribbean reef right at Puerto Viejo. 'Wild Sauce' throws a thick, hollow barrel over live coral — a rare Caribbean slab that needs a big winter swell and rewards it with gnarly, shallow tubes.
REGION
Central America
BREAK
Reef Break
LEVEL
Advanced
SEASON
Dec–Mar
BEST SWELL
N–NE groundswell
BEST WIND
SW offshore
WATCH FOR
Shallow live coral
LIVE REPORT
reading the buoys…
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