Pinamar - Norte (Botavara)

About this spot

• air12-30 kt
• exploreNoreste · Sur · Este
• wavesWaves
• signal_cellular_altIntermediate
• calendar_monthBest: Jan–Dec

Pinamar Norte is one of the most important kite beaches on the Buenos Aires coast: wide sand, no rocks or obstacles, and almost guaranteed wind in summer. It is set up on the open beach north of Balneario Botavara, where the Windkite Pinamar school operates, and you ride in the shorebreak in front of the beach. The summer wind is the northeast sea breeze, which comes in side-shore along the coast; the south is the most frequent of the year and arrives with fronts, bringing more waves. The west and northwest blow from the dunes towards the sea: do not go out. The best times are from November to March. 600 m to the north, at the Kota Beach parador, the Downwind starts, the largest kitesurf meeting in the country: since 2018 it has run 12 km down the coast and in 2023 it gathered more than 150 sails. In summer, the beach resorts have swimming zones: do not ride in front of the umbrellas and return to the beach before reaching them. There are kite, wing foil and foil schools, equipment rental and the resort's parador; parking is in the lot next to the avenue, about 200 m from the shore. Photos: "Mar atlantico , Pinamar , BS AS Argentina" by Ezequiel Casanovas (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons; "Hombre pescando en la orilla" by Rocío Mateos (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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