Qualla: Cabo Blanco, Peru https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cabo Blanco, Peru https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru Cabo Blanco, Peru: Introduction https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. In 1953, an oilman from Texas named Alfred Glassell Jr. hooked a black marlin off the coast of Cabo Blanco, Peru. He fought it for an hour and forty-five minutes. The fish weighed 1,560 pounds. It remains, more than seventy years later, the IGFA all-tackle world record for the species. A few years earlier, Ernest Hemingway had spent more than a month at the same small fishing village, trying to catch one himself while a film crew waited to splice the footage into the movie version of The Old Man and the Sea. He caught a 700-pounder. He was happy enough. Hemingway is gone. The Cabo Blanco Fishing Club is a memory. What remains at Cabo Blanco now is something he never saw coming: a wave.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/6pnp-cabo-blanco-peru-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cabo Blanco, Peru: The White Cape https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. Cabo Blanco - the white cape - sits on Peru's desert northwest coast, three kilometers from El Alto in Talara Province, Piura Region. It is a small place, about twenty full-time locals living between the water and the pale coastal mountains that give the cape its name. The Humbol...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/6pnp-cabo-blanco-peru-the-white-cape.mp3 0:06 2 full Cabo Blanco, Peru: Hemingway's Month https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. The Cabo Blanco Fishing Club opened in 1951 and for the next two decades was one of the most famous sport-fishing destinations on the planet. Hemingway arrived in 1956, a few years after Alfred Glassell Jr. caught the world-record black marlin off the same water. A film crew was ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/6pnp-cabo-blanco-peru-hemingways-month.mp3 0:06 3 full Cabo Blanco, Peru: The Record That Still Stands https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. In 1952, the socialite Patsy Pulitzer - granddaughter of the newspaper publisher - caught a 1,230-pound black marlin off Cabo Blanco, a then world-record fish for a woman; Sports Illustrated later featured her in 1961 as one of its Worlds Loveliest Sportswomen. It was, at the tim...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/6pnp-cabo-blanco-peru-the-record-that-still-stands.mp3 0:06 4 full Cabo Blanco, Peru: The Peruvian Pipeline https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. In 1979, a Peruvian surfer named Sergio 'Gordo' Barreda drove up from Lima to check the break. What he found was one of the best left-handed tube rides on the Pacific rim - a hollow, powerful wave peeling over a sand-and-rock bottom, working best when Pacific swells from Hawaiian...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/n/p/cabo-blanco-peru-wp/6pnp-cabo-blanco-peru-the-peruvian-pipeline.mp3 0:06 5 full Cabo Blanco, Peru: The Pier and the Wave https://qualla.com/cabo-blanco-peru/ Photo credit not stated, Public domain. A few years ago, someone proposed building a concrete fishing pier directly through the takeoff zone of the Cabo wave, which would have destroyed it entirely. The proposal also happened to be technically difficult to execute - the surf that makes the wave famous makes pier constr...

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