🇵🇪 Chicama
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Best directionSSW
Wind speed15–22kt
SeasonApr – Dec
Skill levelAdvanced
WaterWaves
Ridden forKitesurfing
Home to the world's longest rideable left-hand wave, over 2km on a good day — legendary in surfing circles and increasingly on kiters' radars too, with the same smooth afternoon side-shore wind found along Pacasmayo and the rest of this coast.
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Getting therePuerto Malabrigo, about 1.5 hours north of Trujillo Airport (TRU) via the Pan-American Highway and rural sugar cane roads. A car is needed for the coast; free…
HazardsThis is genuinely the longest left-hand wave in the world, confirmed directly and consistently across many sources — rides regularly run 1-2.2km, occasionally…
Best time of dayAfternoon, when the regional wind gets reinforced by a strong thermal off the coastal dunes. After 1pm gives the sea breeze time to fill in cleanly…
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