Playa Puerto Viejo, Cerro Azul — Attraction in Cerro Azul

#LocalGuidesSurf A beautiful beach that is home to abundant wildlife and one of the best waves on Earth. While jam-packed with families in the summer months, the beach is nearly deserted in the winter. The #wave is incredible! Catch it on a mid-tide with at least a 1.5m swell and you are in for a ride of your life! As point-break-y as it gets, the pop-up is super easy and gentle if you park it on the right spot. The ride is a beautiful, peeling right that has wonderful shape, before softening in the middle of the bay, and then reforming for quick, powerful faces as you get closer to shore. Careful for days over 2m; the current can easily suck you through the pier! And you will most likely need to share the space with the...

Classic peruvian beach first mentioned 50 years ago in The Beach Boy's song Surfing Safari when it was quite an adventure to get here to surf the perfect tubes. It has not changed much and that's the charm. The beach is widest in March as rainy season in the mountains sends a lot of sand down the river Cañete a bit further south. The waves continue to break perfectly and the restaurants continue to serve the fish from below those same waves. Sunsets from the pier are a must at 6pm sharp! Then head to the main square for some street anticuchos, picarones and just watch the...

Cerro Azul , el antiguo Puerto de la Fortaleza, esta ubicado 135 km al sur de Lima, en la provincia de Cañete y se asienta sobre una antigua población prehispánica de la cultura Guarco, que fueron sometidos por los Incas en el Siglo XV . Aun podemos ver los restos de ese importante asentamiento en los cerros fraile y centinela que limitan el sector Sur de Cerro Azul con una playa abierta donde se ubica, colindante al sector Norte de estos contrafuertes que se internan en el mar, en el inicio de una extensa playa que se extiende por 50 km hasta Chincha, interrumpida en un tramo por la desembocadura del río Cañete. Un hito importante de la historia de Cerro Azul es la inmigración japonesa que arribó a este puerto. El 27 de febrero de 1899, partió desde Yokohama trayendo los 790 pioneros japoneses Arribaron al Callao y luego al puerto de Cerro Azul en la provincia de Cañete el 4 de abril de ese año, integrándose a la comunidad. Podemos observar en el área del malecón un monumento en honor a los primeros inmigrantes japoneses...