{"id":4418,"date":"2023-02-13T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T09:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portugal-surfcamp.de\/nazarethe-big-wave-surf-spot\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T08:34:50","slug":"nazarethe-big-wave-surf-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portugal-surfcamp.de\/en\/nazarethe-big-wave-surf-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazar\u00e9<\/u><\/br><\/br>The Big Wave Surf Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only for big balls!<\/p>\n

The place<\/p>\n

\"\"The coastal town of Nazar\u00e9 is also located on the Portuguese Atlantic coast, about 40 kilometers north of our camp. The surf spot is located north of the town, at Praia do Norte, right next to the rocky outcrop, below the fortress of S\u00e3o Miguel Acanjo.<\/p>\n

The spectacular thing about this wave is that it breaks only a few hundred meters from the beach, so you can experience everything up close!<\/p>\n

The usually unusual height of the wave breaking here has various causes. Just off the coast is a canyon, an approximately 230 kilometer long sea gorge with a depth of up to 5000 meters. The end of the underwater canyon is therefore just off the coast of Nazar\u00e9, resulting in very large jumps in water depth in a very small area. This is where the full power of the incoming waves is discharged.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, with the appropriate wind and wave conditions, a strong current is directed into the sea along the beach and the rocky outcrop, resulting in a further “build-up” of the wave through the so-called rip. With a correspondingly large swell with predicted wave heights around 12 m, the waves can then break with more than 20 m height.<\/p>\n

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The surf<\/p>\n