June is when the left point at the river mouth is at its best, and the number that comes with that deserves to be read rather than skipped. Nuquí in June returns two clean days out of thirty, one blown out and twenty-seven too small.
Twenty-seven. That is what swell-limited means: a river point on a coast angled away from most of what the Pacific sends, needing a real southern swell to stand up, and getting one on a handful of days even in the month it does best. A week here in June will contain more flat mornings than surfed ones, and anybody planning otherwise is planning against the figures.
Set that beside Pico de Loro, twenty minutes away, which is too small on one day in thirty in its own best month. Two waves, one coast, and completely opposite problems. Knowing which of the two you have flown for is the whole of planning a Chocó trip.
