🇨🇱 Puertecillo
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Best directionS
Wind speed20–30kt
SeasonOct – Mar
Skill levelAdvanced
WaterWaves
Ridden forKitesurfing
A fast left point break on Chile's O'Higgins coast, part of the same cold-water, strong-wind cluster as Matanzas just up the coast.
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Getting thereAbout 3 hours southwest of Santiago via a steep, narrow unpaved switchback track locally nicknamed 'the knife' — confirmed directly against multiple…
HazardsA high-intensity wave spot with a powerful left-hand point break, real shorebreak, and genuine undercurrent tracking along the rocky cliffs. Poorly suited to…
Best time of dayAfternoon, when inland valley heat triggers a strong thermal suction accelerating the prevailing SSW wind along the point…
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