Local legend
Guarda do Embaú
Paulo Lopes, Santa Catarina, Brazil-27.907, -48.584Point break · faces ESE (123°)
Spot guide
Guarda do Embaú is an ESE-facing point break in Paulo Lopes, Santa Catarina, Brazil. It picks up swell from NE to SSW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 33% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the WNW: light winds or WNW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while ESE onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Point
- Faces
- ESE (123°)
- Best swell
- ENE to SSW (60°–200°), 12 s or longer
- Best wind
- WSW to NNW offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–8 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- NE to SSW (38° to 192°)
- Offshore wind
- WNW
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- None yet