For at least 3,500 years, fishermen along the Peruvian coast have been making reed-bound boats and surfing the waves back to shore. Three-metre-high waves crash onto Playa El Mogote in the northern ...

Huanchaco Beach, located in the northern part of Peru makes for an all-round break. At the outset, let us make it clear that this isn’t really the beach for swimming. It is quite rocky in parts. Howev ...

Lorenzo Ucañan is a reed boat fisher. He comes from Huanchaco, a fishing village on the northwestern coast of Peru. Following tradition, he builds his reed boat, known as a ‘caballito’, himself. But ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of human-shark interaction going back more than 3,5000 years in Peru, including ceremonial shark burials and fishermen buried with additional body parts. This human ...

The cemetery is located near a Spanish colonial church built in Huanchaco, Peru, around 1535. Gabriel Prieto / Huanchaco Archaeological Program Researchers in Peru have concluded that two toddlers ...

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Huanchaco Beach, Huanchaco Peru. Huanchaco Beach, located in the northern part of Peru makes for an all-round break. At the outset, let us make it clear that this isn’t really the beach for swimming.