Local legend
Boca Barranca
Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica9.960, -84.741Point break · faces SSW (197°)
Spot guide
Boca Barranca is an SSW-facing point break in Puntarenas, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. It picks up swell from SSE to SSW and SSW to SW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 77% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NNE: light winds or NNE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SSW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Point
- Faces
- SSW (197°)
- Best swell
- S to SW (180°–230°), 12 s or longer
- Best wind
- NNW to ENE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–8 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- SSE to SSW (167° to 208°); SSW to SW (208.5° to 221.5°)
- Offshore wind
- NNE
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- None yet