Máncora

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A beach in Mancora

Máncora is a town and beach resort in the Piura Region, in northwestern Peru. It is located in the Talara Province and is capital of the Máncora District. The town has 8,852 inhabitants (1999).

The Pan-American Highway serves Máncora's main street. The area is known for its attractive turquise beaches and good waves making it a surfing destination. The location of this beach is favoured by two ocean currents year round: the cold Humboldt Current 14 to 19 C° and the warm Niño Current 21 to 27 C°, giving it a tropical-dry climate with ocean waters averaging around 24 C°.

Summers go from December to April and are very hot, rainy days during the night are usual and the temperature can reach over the 38 °C. The rest of the seasons are blessed with dry weather, a nice refreshing breeze, tropical sun and sunny days that remain. The temperature during winter and spring never falls bellow 25 C° during the daytime and is usually around the high 20's. Nighttime temperatures drop to around 17 C°.

The beach town has over 30 different beach resorts that receive tourists from all over South America. It is not uncommon to see license plates anywhere from Argentina or Chile to Colombia. It boasts a large porportion of luxury restaurants and nightclubs for being a town of 10,000. Resorts brim the nearby kilometers of beaches connected by on road. Most people arrive by bus, private car, or plane from the Talara Airport or Tumbes Airport. Currently tourism is booming as a humongous influx of tourists take to the beaches all year round. In 2005 340,000 tourists visited Mancora. The resort town has the magical ability to seem private and empty when relaxing on the beach, while brimming with people late into the night at the many nightclubs in town playing loud music. It is extremely well connected to the rest of the country and world. Buses run down the Peruvian coast to Lima every day with various different companies varying in quality and price.

Distances:

City	Land	Air
Lima	18 hours	2 hours
Arequipa	34 hours	3.5 hours*
Cajamarca	14 hours	2 hours*
Chiclayo	7 hours	1 hour
Chimbote	13 hours	--
Cusco	42 hours	3.5 hours*
Piura	3 hours	--
Piñas	5 hours	--
Tacna	35 hours	4 hours*
Trujillo	10 hours	1.5 hours
Tumbes	2.5 hours	--
Bogotá, CO	62 hours	5 hours*
Buenos Aires, AR	80 hours	6.5 hours*
Guayaquil, EC	7 hours	--
Santiago, CH	62 hours	6 hours*
Sao Paulo, BR	105 hours	7 hours*