El Salvador Surfing

El Salvador's 320km of Pacific coastline is dominated by at least 10 or more world class righthand point breaks. Many of these waves break for 100-200 yards and don’t close out. The coastline resembles a tropical Santa Barbara county set-up. Imagine Rincon, Hammonds, Sandspit, Campus Point and El Capitan in the same swell window as Puerto Escondido with waves over 300 days of the year, 82 degree water, and no crowds. Sound like a fantasy? No, it is just a 4.5 hour flight from Los Angeles…

El Salvador surfing is roughly divided into 2 surfing zones - the LA LIBERTAD area in the Northwest which encompasses about a dozen different breaks of high quality starting at the coastal town of La Libertad (only a 30 minute drive from the airport) and extending for about an hour's drive northward along a mountainous and scenic coast. The other area is known as the WILD EAST and lies about 3 hours drive south and eastward down the coast. This remote area is less trafficked and boasts the world class righthanders Las Flores and Punta Mango. And others place virgins .