Playa Negra
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Playa Negra is a beach in the Guanacaste Province
of Costa Rica
and a featured location in the movie Endless Summer II. It is south of the town of Tamarindo
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Los Pargos is the town where Playa Negra is located.
Playa Negra offers several restaurants, from the now famous peruvian food at Cafe Playa Negra, French cuisine at Villa, mexican food, and a pizza parlour. It has developed to be an outdoors activity growing town with a yoga center, adventure tours, several small shops, Surf shops, surf rentals and various cabinas and hotels.
Considered by many surfers to be one of the top spots in Costa Rica. It has become famous , in part, to its' ease of access apart from its' quality as a surfing wave. Playa Negra has rock reef bottom with good right-hand barrels and a well defined channel for paddling out. This channel also assists surfers to return to the point where the wave breaks. There is a strong rip current that takes the surfers back through the impact zone. Depending on the swell direction and tides a left breaking wave may also be surfed. The break has good exposure to both Northern and Southern Hemisphere swells and is reasonably consistent year-round. The wave can break well with large and small swells. It may also produce good surfing waves during the entire tide range.
Guanacaste Province
Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern part of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean. To the north it borders Nicaragua. To the east is the Alajuela Province, and to the southeast is the Puntarenas Province. It is the most sparsely populated of all the...
of Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
and a featured location in the movie Endless Summer II. It is south of the town of Tamarindo
Tamarindo, Costa Rica
Tamarindo is a town and distrito located on the Northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica in the Province of Guanacaste. The district has a population of 3,525, although the town itself is about 500. But it can swell to 5,000 people or more during the tourist season and during special holidays...
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Los Pargos is the town where Playa Negra is located.
Playa Negra offers several restaurants, from the now famous peruvian food at Cafe Playa Negra, French cuisine at Villa, mexican food, and a pizza parlour. It has developed to be an outdoors activity growing town with a yoga center, adventure tours, several small shops, Surf shops, surf rentals and various cabinas and hotels.
Surf
Playa Negra is home to the surfing break known worldwide since being featured in Bruce Brown's movie Endless Summer II. However, there are many accounts of individuals who surfed Playa Negra long before the movie came out. Some claim to have been here in the '70's.Considered by many surfers to be one of the top spots in Costa Rica. It has become famous , in part, to its' ease of access apart from its' quality as a surfing wave. Playa Negra has rock reef bottom with good right-hand barrels and a well defined channel for paddling out. This channel also assists surfers to return to the point where the wave breaks. There is a strong rip current that takes the surfers back through the impact zone. Depending on the swell direction and tides a left breaking wave may also be surfed. The break has good exposure to both Northern and Southern Hemisphere swells and is reasonably consistent year-round. The wave can break well with large and small swells. It may also produce good surfing waves during the entire tide range.