Nuquí is a left point at a river mouth, on a southwest swell with an east-south-easterly offshore, and best at high tide. It is filed reliable, and it very rarely gets crowded, which on this coast means what it says rather than what it usually means.
June is its best month and the figures are the honest part: two clean days out of thirty, one blown out, twenty-seven too small. A river point on a coast that faces the wrong way for most of the Pacific's swell does not get many days, and a week here will contain more flat mornings than surfed ones.
Rocks and rips are named, and a river mouth is where the second of those lives. The bottom is river sand and the point is not.
Nobody comes to Chocó for the odds. They come because on the days it does work there is one person on it, and because there is nowhere else on this coast anybody has written down.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced
- Wave
- Left
- Bottom
- Sand
- Swell window
- SSW – WSW
- Ideal wind
- ESE
- Best tide
- high tide
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●○○○○
- Danger
- ●●●○○
A month in figures
In June, the month the forecast guides single out for this coast:
Shares of the month, from the published forecast statistics. The model reads a grid, so neighbouring breaks share a figure: this describes a stretch of coast, not this wave on its own. The other eleven months are not published.
What to watch for
- Rocks
- Rips and undertow
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.