Las Machas Surf Report & Forecast

Las Machas is a long beach that starts in Chile and ends in Peru. It's mostly a great training ground for the young and less-experienced surfers, but during the huge winter swells it serves also as a decompression valve from the morning sessions in one or more of the bigger, gnarlier waves of Arica. Wind works like clockwork in Arica: no wind in the morning, then at around midday or 1pm, winds start to pick up and blow away the best waves in town (Gringo and Buey). Machas works pretty much all d... Read more