(Liza Gonzalez Director of Paso Pacifico in Nicaragua meeting with the Nicaraguan National Surf Team)
This year’s Central American Surf Championship took place on November 19, 20, and 21 at Madera San Juan del Sur Beach in Nicaragua. Paso Pacifico partnered with Nicaragua’s National Surf Team to promote the preservation of a healthy marine habit in Nicaragua’s Paso Del Ismo. The event featured 80 of the best surfers in Central American fostering friendship between the nations and a collective awareness of the environmental challenges affecting their common coastline. President of the Nicaraguan Association of Surfing said of the championship event, “This year we want to send a message, along with Paso Pacifico, that the oceans are the life blood of the planet. We want to make a difference by appealing to the whole society to become conscience about the damage we do to nature when we throw trash into our streams and waterways”.
(Nicaragua’s Luis Chamorro)
Nicaragua’s team placed second overall with Rex Calderon finishing first by a landslid in the open event and Jose Espinoza winning first in the longboard division.