Wind Sports in Colombia

Gator says on May 22, 2008, 19:03:

Lago Calima near Cali, the lakes around El Peñol near Medellin. Also seenthis done in the Cartagena area.

"Credidi pretio parvo emere et magno vendere tibi in animo fuisse!" .

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ColombianoGringo says on May 22, 2008, 19:23:

Beachbros,

Please make sure to post anything you might find out about kite surfing in Colombia. I have been taking lessons and might want to do it sometime when I'm down there.

I know that their is a fair amount of windsurfing on the Represa de Betanya, a huge reservoir lake in El Huila department of Southern Colombia. I haven't seen anything related to kiting. If you ever head down to San Agustin, it is on the way from Neiva. However, this not the most tourist friendly area.

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iggy says on May 23, 2008, 07:58:

I was in Laguito Beach Cartagena last February and the northen Carribean wind filled away the sails as well. This season the direction of the wind has changed and i dont think that u gonna enjoy it.

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gatogris says on May 23, 2008, 09:06:

Just up from Bahia Suroeste in Providencia there is a stretch of fairly shallow water with rock steady winds this time of year...the best damn kiting next to Tenerife or the Magdalenes, absolutely primo prime...get ready to have your hair blown back!

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cali373 says on May 23, 2008, 10:36:

There is an area in Venezuela near the Colombia border that is suppossed to be the windiest place in the americas. try to find about it. I wish I knew what it was.

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Beachbros says on May 23, 2008, 11:09:

I was just in a place called Adicora like 8 hours into venezuela on the peninsula above coro. Great strong onshore winds, but i think the season is slowly coming to an end. I was told though up by cabo de villa they have winds year round, just haven`t had time to check it out.

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gatogris says on May 23, 2008, 12:45:

In Cabo de la Vela, the winds are primarily from the east, but watch out when they back around to southeast - it creates chop that can really screw up your ride. As you know the wind speed is related to how quickly the water warms up in relation to the air, so in the Guajira, its best to get started kind of early, cause the wind can get too strong in the afternoon (stay away from bootleg whiskey!) But count on wind...

If you want a more technical definition as to why, here you go: the Guajira Peninsula is the locus of particularly strong upwelling because it protrudes into the Caribbean Low-Level Wind Jet and its west coast parallels the direction of the strongest winds. The year-round upwelling varies with the wind forcing: strongest in December–March and July, and weakest in the October–November rainy season. The east–west temperature, salinity and density front that delimits the upwelling lies over the shelf edge in the east of the peninsula but separates from the south-westward trending topography to the west. A coastal westward surface jet geostrophically adjusted to the upwelling flows along the front, and an eastward sub-surface counterflow is trapped against the Guajira continental slope. The undercurrent shoals toward the western limit of the upwelling, Santa Marta, beyond which point it extends to the surface. Some of the westward jet re-circulates inshore with the counterflow but part continues directly west to form an upwelling filament. Much of the mesoscale variation is associated with upwelling filaments, which expel cooler, chlorophyll-rich coastal upwelling waters westward and northward into the Caribbean Sea. Freshwater plumes from the Magdalena and Orinoco rivers influence the area strongly, and outflow from Lake Maracaibo interacts directly with upwelled waters off Guajira. Another important factor is the Aeolian input of dust from the Guajira desert by episodes of offshore winds.

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Beachbros says on May 25, 2008, 12:11:

Wow, I feel stupider for attempting to read that. But thanks for the info, will be sure to let you know how it goes as soon as I get a chance to get up there.

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Beachbros says on Sep 13, 2008, 17:00:

I just got a few days riding in rododero next to santa marta. Was there one day and gone the next, kinda just have to be lucky. The ride was good, can go out and check out a coke mansion or any tug boats in the area. You can ride right up to the beach and have quite a few spectators, high season would be crazy. Also have about 30 kids running around asking questions, first time anyone had seen the sport.

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ujay says on Sep 25, 2008, 20:46:

there are passing wind on here now ,try that post.

http://www.jukelightning.com

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