Canoa is located in the beach at the Pacific ocean. While flying you can enjoy the beautiful views of this magical place and the surroundings.
The take off called The Nest is a private property owned by the local pilots, situated close to the town and to a lot of touristic beatiful places.
The place offers a fine flying with ceiling of up to 700 m ASL and prevailing south winds.
There were many hang gliding competition held in this place:
See videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEi8kU2rvww
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypbtyH6nDRc

Take off - 165 m ASL - datum WGS 84 S 00.350377 W 080.44362
The launch is spacious. 30deg. slope. Connected by a dirt road.

Oficial Landing - on the beach. 11 m ASL , S00.47535, W 80.45325 beside the asphalt road
While flying must observe air traffic rules. No Airspace restrictions

The history of hang gliding in ECUADOR dates back to the early 70's with pioneers as Tony Gittes and Eduardo Alvear in QUITO the capital City. It was in 1976 they both started to learn him self. At the same time they begun to teach to more enthusiatic friends and opened more takeoffs as the Picincha mountain with a 10000 ft asl take off in the ANDES. This place was used for more than 20 years. Then later the new generation began to discover new flying sites at sea level and in the Andes also.
The climate of the region results from the interaction of its cold ocean current called Humboldt and hot ocean current called El Niño This place all year around flyable, but the parfect months are between June and December

You can use any place along the beach as Landing zone in high or low tide