Kitesurfing in South America

Destinations

• Atins & Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil

  A village at the edge of a desert of white dunes and rainwater lagoons, reached by boat or 4x4 and by very few people.

• Cartagena Coast, Colombia

  A walled colonial city on the Caribbean, where the trade winds blow from December to April and the beaches start fifteen minutes from the old town.

• Cumbuco, Brazil

  A fishing village on the Ceará coast that the trade winds turned into a kitesurfing town, with glassy lagoons a buggy ride down the sand.

• Jericoacoara & Preá, Brazil

  A fishing village in a national park where the streets are sand, and fourteen kilometres of beach downwind that made it a kitesurfing pilgrimage.

• La Guajira, Colombia

  The desert peninsula at Colombia's northern tip, where the Wayuu live and the wind blows for ten months of the year.

• Paracas, Peru

  A desert bay on the Peruvian coast beside a national reserve, with wind on around three hundred days a year.

• Santa Verónica, Colombia

  A sheltered flat-water bay and a wave beach beside it, an hour from Cartagena on Colombia's Atlántico coast.