A surfer rides a wave in front of a volcanic rock resembling a pig, which gave the beach at El Tunco its name. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) A 13-mile stretch of Salvadoran shoreline the ...

El Salvador has certainly come a long way from its past reputation. Once considered a country too dangerous to travel to thanks to its bloody civil war, the Central American country — the only one ...

Bob Levy grew up in El Salvador but discovered surfing in California, and he vividly remembers the day he returned to his homeland and hit the beach with a stiff, 10-foot surfboard under his arm.

LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador — The wait is over for Yolanda Sequeira, who finished second Sunday in the ISA World Surfing Games, grabbing one of the final seven women’s berths in this first-ever Olympic ...

Surfers in El Salvador are planning to hold a “paddle out” Tuesday to remember Katherine Díaz Hernández, one of the country’s top surfers who was killed last week by a lightning bolt while surfing.

Way back in the 1970s, two gringos rolled into El Salvador in a beat-up VW bus. Kevin Naughton and Craig Peterson were in the midst of their globetrotting, decades-spanning surf saga and the lure of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Surfers in ...

Tragic news sweeping through the sports world of surfing as an Olympic hopeful dies in a lightning strike. El Salvadoran surfer Katherine Diaz died on Friday, March 19, 2021 after being struck by ...