Spot guide
Salsa Brava is an NE-facing reef break in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. It picks up swell from N to NNE and NNE and NE to E, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 62% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the SW: light winds or SW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while NE onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Reef
- Faces
- NE (35°)
- Best swell
- NNE to E (30°–90°), 11 s or longer
- Best wind
- S to W offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 4–10 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- N to NNE (2.5° to 19°); NNE (20.5° to 33.5°); NE to E (34° to 91°)
- Offshore wind
- SW
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- None yet