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The Ten Best Surfing Countries in the Americas

The Americas offer enough variety of waves and surfing conditions to satisfy any surfer for a lifetime.

The Americas is the entire western hemisphere, from the frozen Arctic region in the north to the equally frigid Antarctic region in the south. This vast area has every climate possible on planet Earth, from savannas, deserts and dry forests to steamy tropical jungles and pleasant temperate regions between northern Canada and the tip of South America in Patagonia.

In this vast area, we have a multitude of surfing locations featuring some of the best waves in the world. There is every type of wave imaginable, from the long right points of California to the longer left points of Peru on the western-facing coastlines to the beachbreaks and tidal bores of Brasil and the shallow and sharp coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea. The Americas offer enough variety of waves and surfing conditions to satisfy any surfer for a lifetime.

While the surfing tradition of “secret spots” may well have originated in this area, with once hush-hush locations like Petacalco in mainland Mexico, La Libertad in El Salvador and Pavones in Costa Rica known only to a few hardcore surfers, many of them involved in the equally secretive drugs trade, there are not many bonafide secret spots left in the western hemisphere. 

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