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This is the first article in a four-part series on the fishing-and-surfing village of Huanchaco, Peru. Most days you’d never know you were 30 minutes to Trujillo, Peru’s third-largest city when walking Huanchaco’s nearly-empty beach and crumbling colonial backstreets, but on summer weekends the malecón (boardwalk) explodes with Peruvian tourists and foreign surfers. While its position in the Humboldt Current makes the water cooler and the skies cloudier than its famous northern neighbor Mancora, it also thins down the crowds to people serious about their surfing and their relaxing.
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