La Boquilla
Fishing village turned kitesurfing hotspot, with steady trade winds and mangrove canoe routes.
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This guide to La Boquilla, a fishing village just outside Cartagena's old town, opens with Jesus and his wife Cindy, who built a kitesurf school by hand on a beach where fishermen have cast handmade nets for generations. It follows how a steady trade wind, blowing hard from December through April, turned this shallow bay into two economies at once. Watch for a canoe gliding through the mangrove channel behind you, or horses saddled for sunset rides along the shoreline.
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