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 ...

Rachael Tilly of San Clemente, California won her third World Longboard Title at the Surf City El Salvador Longboard ...

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.

Katherine Diaz, a 22-year-old surfer from El Salvador, died Friday after being struck by lightning. She was surfing near her home in the El Tunco neighborhood, about an hour south of San Salvador, in ...

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 ...

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.

WHY IT RATES: Surfing conditions vary from beach to beach, with some too tame for the experts or too daunting for beginners - here is a cheat sheet for choosing the right set of waves for your skill ...

How can El Salvador, a country rich with epic waves but trapped in the shadows of a war-torn past, shine a light on its world-class surfing and establish itself as a tourist destination — especially ...

Katherine Diaz, 22, was training to compete in the Tokyo Summer Olympics, where surfing will make its debut Katherine Diaz, a 22-year-old surfer from El Salvador who was preparing in hopes of ...

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 ...