A mile or so south of town is Playa Cocles, a consistent beachbreak, and a few miles south of that is Punta Uva, a semi-fickle right point. There are a few reefbreaks around the port town of Limon ...
Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast is an entirely different ... heaving reefbreaks, particularly Salsa Brava, which is the closest thing Central America has to Hawaiian-style power.