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Kitesurfing in Maldonado

2 spots · 1 destination · 6 schools

Maldonado pairs a lagoon with a resort peninsula: Laguna Garzón, on the Rocha border, is flat and shallow enough that local schools run beginner courses and instructor training there, while Punta del Este's Playa Brava — reached via its own numbered paradas — is a conditional, wave-and-current city beach for intermediate and advanced riders.

Spots with a rule2a permit, a zone or a closed season in the recordBeginner spots1where the record says a beginner can rideSeasonSeptember to Decembersomewhere in the region, and again January to MarchWindsnone namednamed by two or more of its spots

Summer wind sits in the E/SE/NE quadrant, December through March.

Maldonado holds 2 kitesurf spots in our atlas, grouped into 1 destination. Riding here is mostly lagoons. The season runs September to December. 1 of them suits beginners. 6 schools operate in the region.

When you may ride

the rules these spots carry, with the year on each

Punta del EstePunta del Este20182018: Maldonado's Beach Safety Unit moved the authorized Brava kitesurf area from Parada 31 to Parada 22 after incidents involving bathers, while keeping Laguna Jose Ignacio allowed.
2018: Maldonado's Beach Safety Unit moved the authorized Brava kitesurf area from Parada 31 to Parada 22 after incidents involving bathers, while keeping Laguna Jose Ignacio allowed.

The whole rule, on the Punta del Este page

Laguna GarzónLaguna Garzón2020Kitesurfing at Laguna Garzón is regulated inside Uruguay's protected-area system under RM 461/2020, in force since 15 December 2020, extended by RM 382/2022. Register before you start the session and again when you finish, ride only the delimited zones on the official map, use the access points and parking marked in red on that map, and keep to the cap of 30 riders at a time per zone.
Kitesurfing at Laguna Garzón is regulated inside Uruguay's protected-area system under RM 461/2020, in force since 15 December 2020, extended by RM 382/2022. Register before you start the session and again when you finish, ride only the delimited zones on the official map, use the access points and parking marked in red on that map, and keep to the cap of 30 riders at a time per zone.

The whole rule, on the Laguna Garzón page

Each block is the opening of the record's own rule, kept in its own words. Where two postings do not line up, both are kept and neither is picked for you.

The winds here

what the spot records call the wind, and the knots they quote

No wind is named across this region

Fewer than two of its spots give the wind a local name. Each spot page carries its own directions and knots.

The spots this region is known for

tier 2 of the 2 spots here

Punta del Este

Destinations in Maldonado

Punta del Esteadvancedquietgear rental1 spot · 6 schools

All spots in Maldonado

Laguna Garzónlagoon · beginner okPunta del Estemixed

Regions come from OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries; each spot page carries the record behind it. This list runs A to Z; the block above it is the tier order.

Last updated September 2026