When Chile first laid claim to the port city of Arica in 1880 following its victory over Peru in the War of the Pacific little did they know that not only were they now holding a key trading location but they had inertly seized one of the best and heaviest waves in the Latin Americas if not the world. With "El Gringo" being highly regarded as one the the heaviest waves in South America it has been sitting high at the top of my bucket list of surf spots to document and with the arrival of the APB World Tour to the North of Chile it was now high time to cross it off that list.
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