Surf Break Description For Northern Peru, aka Surfing the North Coast of Peru
Important Information:
3/2 fullsuit or spring is recommended.
Guayaquil Ecuador to Mancora Peru 5 Hours
Mancora:
Swell Direction: Norths and Souths.
Tide: All tides
Season: all year.
Crowds: Can get Crowded.
Great spot for home base lots of restaurants and hotels and a good left point right in front of the hotel. A good wave but not as hollow and fast as the others in the Northern Peru area.
Los Organos:
Swell Direction: Norths
Tide: All tides
Season: December through March.
Crowds: Light crowds.
Fast hollow left over shallow rocks, botties would be advisable. Does get big and hollow sometimes, a big gun would be advisable on big norths. Lodging is available on the Point. Organitos is an easier wave close to the main point good for beginners.
Cabo Blanco : ( see attached photo)
Swell Direction: Norths
Tide: Medium
Season: December through March.
Crowds: Very good Peruvian Local crowd, very localized.
Advanced Surfers only.
Considered Perus version of Pipeline. Perfect left breaking right in front of a nasty rock shelf. Do not fall and if you do quickly scamper up on to the beach. It is important to watch the waves for awhile. Obstacles inlcude heavy currents into a pier, heavy drop in front of rocks and locals. Well worth the danger, its a get tube ride the whole wave.
Panic Point :
Swell Direction: Southwest
Tide: High
Season: All year, more consistant from April through October
Crowds: Light crowds, since summertime is more crowded in Northern Peru.
Advanced Surfers only.
Very thick and hollow left reef point on the south end of the beach in Cabo Blanco. Its is heavy and shallow. Falling here is also very dangerous. Very good wave.
Pisinas, Lobitos and El Hueco:
Swell Direction: Southwest
Season: All year, more consistant from April through October .
Crowds: Light crowds, since summertime is more crowded in Northern Peru.
All levels of Surfers .
Piscinas is a fun easy left that usually is offshore and perfect it is located on a military base and you need permission to get in.
Lobitos is another very fun easy left that is usually offshore and perfect. Its does get that much swell but it is very good quality, great longboarding wave, does tube on ocasión.
The south end of Lobitos in front of alot of rocks is El Hueco, it is perfect but just a few feet from Rocks and you must not fall. Great for tube riding and that is why it is called the hole, or el Hueco in Spanish.
Bayovar Region :
You need permission for Petroperu, 4x4 access only down a dirt road for hours and very easy to get lost, no lodging or food available. Two of the best waves in Peru, Punta Tur and Punta Nunura. Camping Only. Southwest to Northwest Swells. Gets very big! We can do camping expeditions for clients that would be interested in surfing alone.
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