Listing of Chile’s best white water kayak rivers giving guide for kayakers. Includes river description, whitewater skills required, instructor tips and challenges, access info, dangers, links to similar Chile Rivers, whitewater kayak instruction resources, and related kayak trips.
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Easy Chile Rivers & Lakes
Class I to III
Intermediate Chile Rivers
Class II to III+
Advanced Chile Rivers
Class III+ to IV
Expert Chile Rivers
Class IV to V
Easy Chile Whitewater Rivers Lakes & Hotsprings
Easy Chile Rivers & Lakes is designed for the recreational kayaker or wannabe whitewater kayaker seeking to learn the roll, explore and play in the lakes or rivers. The Lakes District is a Chile phenomenon of Andean precipitation gathering and flowing in a series of lakes and lagunas en route to the Pacific.
Beginner Whitewater Kayak Chile Trips
Multiple Dates Available
For beginner and wannabe whitewater kayakers. Equipment, rivers, fun adventures, and challenges included. Bring a friend or meet new ones while you learn to kayak Chile rivers.
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River (II to IV)
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River is our only trip great for all skills. Beginners and intermediates can ducky, pack raft, and raft while advanced kayakers surf and charge rapids.
Trancura River Delta & Lago Villarrica (II to III)
Chile’s Trancura River Delta is for beginner kayakers with safe eddy lines to learn ferrying, rapid running, eddy hopping, and rolling.
Tolten River (II to III)
Chile’s Tolten River is for beginner kayakers seeking to practice combat rolls, learn to paddle and run river rapids with vistas of Volcano Villarrica.
Lower Maichin River (II to III)
Beginner white water kayakers can experience a Chilean canyon, practice rolling, ferries, and eddy catching on this gorgeous river.
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Beginner Chile Kayak Trips We’re Offering
Chile’s rivers are remarkably beautiful and ideal for beginner kayaking. Beginner trips are designed to teach you skills to progress to intermediate rivers, and love the sport of whitewater kayaking.
Intermediate Chile Whitewater Rivers
Chile’s best whitewater rivers for intermediate kayakers with development features including eddy lines, safe rapids, combat rolls, wave trains, and eddy hopping. Great to safely progress and challenge your kayak skills as you learn.
Kayaking Chiles Lower Trancura River
The Lower Trancura is one of Chiles best development whitewater sections offering challenging rapids and world class features. Put-in right at our base… convenience.
Liucura Wave to Trancura Confluence
World class development section with play boating, aggressive eddy piercing, and boofing features.
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River (II to IV)
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River is our only trip great for all skills. Beginners and intermediates can ducky, pack raft, and raft while advanced kayakers surf and charge rapids.
Tolten River (II to III)
Chile’s Tolten River is for beginner kayakers seeking to practice combat rolls, learn to paddle and run river rapids with vistas of Volcano Villarrica.
Lower Maichin River (II to III)
Beginner white water kayakers can experience a Chilean canyon, practice rolling, ferries, and eddy catching on this gorgeous river.
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Intermediate Chile Kayak Trips We’re Offering
With a multitude of class III river sections intermediate kayakers progress daily to more challenging rapids. Your riverside base is the heart of Chile’s most abundant whitewater. After a week of coaching and world class features it’s possible to run a waterfall or progress to the Advanced Kayaking programs.
Advanced Chile Whitewater Rivers
Chile’s advanced whitewater rivers are for experienced rivers runners with a solid combat roll. The variety of beautiful rivers are packed full of quality features to challenge and improve your skills. Rivers include big water blue rapids, low volume creeking, canyon sections, and even safe clean waterfalls.
Kayaking Chiles Lower Trancura River
The Lower Trancura is one of Chiles best development whitewater sections offering challenging rapids and world class features. Put-in right at our base… convenience.
Liucura Wave to Trancura Confluence
World class development section with play boating, aggressive eddy piercing, and boofing features.
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River (II to IV)
Kayaking Chiles San Pedro River is our only trip great for all skills. Beginners and intermediates can ducky, pack raft, and raft while advanced kayakers surf and charge rapids.
Kayaking Chile’s Upper Palguin River (III+ to IV)
South America’s most run waterfall section the Upper Palguin Canyon is like a waterfall park idea for experts keen to master advanced skills in a safe setting, and first time creekers excited to learn creeking and waterfalls techniques.
Kayaking Pucón’s Upper Trancura River (III to V)
Glaciers, creeks, and rivers flow into the Rio Trancura guaranteeing year round boofs, drops, and challenges for advanced to expert kayakers. Idea for easy access half day laps.
Upper Fuy River (III+ to IV+)
The Upper Fuy is one of Chile’s white water kayaking gems with its crystalline blue warm water and relatively easy to run rapids and waterfalls.
Kayaking Chile Waterfalls Rio Claro
MULTIPLE DATES AVAILABLE
Advanced and Expert Kayakers
Leaders: Mark Taylor, Joe Gudger
Kayak Chiles Claro Canyon basalt waterfalls. 66,000,000 years milled and carved to kayaking perfection. Access, logistics, equipment, meals, coaching included. Bring your Go Pro and elbow pads.
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Advanced Kayak Trips We’re Offering
For kayakers with combat roll, river running skills, keen to improve and explore a variety of Chile rivers and whitewater challenges. River features with blue colors offer challenge eddies, boofs, waterfalls, fast paced rapids, and canyons idea to progress your skills and experience.
Expert Chile Whitewater Rivers
Expert Chile whitewater rivers are for hard core kayakers seeking quality creeking, waterfalls, spouts, stout, and to be challenged on rapid rich sections. Whether you want canyons with glorious waterfalls, big volume rapids, or even to notch a clean 50 footer we’ve got an option.
2022-23 Trip Calendar
All TripsNovember Trips - Experts Only This is the Chilean spring time and that means optimum levels for creeking, more rivers and waterfalls options. Dates Trip Details OCT 29 - NOV 4 Pucon Creek Week (IV - V) Book Trip Mark Taylor/David Hughes OCT 29 - NOV 11 Custom...
Kayaking Chile’s Upper Palguin River (III+ to IV)
South America’s most run waterfall section the Upper Palguin Canyon is like a waterfall park idea for experts keen to master advanced skills in a safe setting, and first time creekers excited to learn creeking and waterfalls techniques.
Kayaking Pucón’s Upper Trancura River (III to V)
Glaciers, creeks, and rivers flow into the Rio Trancura guaranteeing year round boofs, drops, and challenges for advanced to expert kayakers. Idea for easy access half day laps.
Kayaking Chile Waterfalls Rio Claro
MULTIPLE DATES AVAILABLE
Advanced and Expert Kayakers
Leaders: Mark Taylor, Joe Gudger
Kayak Chiles Claro Canyon basalt waterfalls. 66,000,000 years milled and carved to kayaking perfection. Access, logistics, equipment, meals, coaching included. Bring your Go Pro and elbow pads.
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Expert Chile Kayak Trips We’re Offering
For solid whitewater kayakers seeking to explore canyons, charge stouts and spouts, and notch Chile’s best waterfalls, rivers, and creeking… as good as whitewater kayaking gets.