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About

Scary, mellow, epic, frustrating, clean tubes, mush balls, smell of oil, big fucking sealions , a view of Mount Aconcagua to die for.  Offshores howling off the Andes, cold Antarctic onshores. Basically a spot that can be crap or incredible and world class, depending on swell, river flow, banks  etc. There  is also a left  point off  the rocks by the fishermens yard that the spongies like, personally I wouldn't risk my fins.

Atmosphere:
Too many spongers, they used to have there own little spongy spot around the corner at Playa Amarilla, now they've migrated  to La Boca.  The beach is  ugly and  polluted,  oil refinery round the corner.  But between here,  Ritoque -the very far end of a 10 mile or so long beach which encompasses La Piedra too, you are going to be surfing good to excellent waves every day, I know because I did for 2 years.

Additional Info:
La  Boca always has waves, Punta del Piedra is  the long beach on  the other side  of the river, if La  Boca has no waves simply cross the river  and walk until you find a peak. During the El Nino, La Boca was world class, but it can be crap  and mushy or a horrendous closeout too  on a west swell.  Renaca has very good, but crowded peaky waves - compared to the wedge (?)Lots of  Beautiful girls, but the local Renaca surfers are generally wankers.  Ritoque is a scary  big  wave spot, Horcon has an excellent left point on monster swells  this is  an epic surfing coast

Location

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Access

Walk	Instant access (<5 min)
Public access	Yes
4x4 required	Yes
Boat required	No

Wave Characteristics

Type	Rivermouth
Direction	Right and left
Bottom	Sandy with rock
Power	Hollow Fast Powerful Fun Ledgey
Frequency	Very consistent (150+ days/year)
Normal length	Normal (50 to 150m)
Good day length	Very Long (300 to 500m)

Ideal Conditions

Wind direction	South SouthEast East NorthEast
Swell direction	North NorthWest SouthWest South
Swell size	Less than 3ft - 16ft and over
Tide	All tides
Tide movement	Rising and falling tides

Crowd

Week	Few surfers
Weekend	Ultra crowded

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