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title: "Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro"
id: "cabo-blanco-y-el-nuro"
category: "playas"
zone: "Cabo Blanco"
coordinates: { lat: -3.9186, lng: -81.1044 }
hours: "Open year-round"
address: "Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro coves, El Alto district, Talara"
url: "https://www.mipiura.com/en/playas/cabo-blanco-y-el-nuro/"
verified: false
source: "MiPiura.com - Plataforma Turística Oficial de Piura"
---

# Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro

Coves on the Talara coast with a world-class fishing legacy: Cabo Blanco was the global capital of big-game fishing in the 1950s — celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway visited in 1956 — and El Ñuro is today a pioneering model for watching and conserving green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) around its communal pier.

## Datos Clave / Quick Facts
- **Zona:** Cabo Blanco (Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro coves, El Alto district, Talara)
- **Coordenadas GPS:** -3.9186, -81.1044
- **Horario:** Open year-round
- **Actividades:** Swimming with green turtles, Advanced surfing (El Tubo), Sport fishing, Marine interpretation room

## Cómo Llegar
From the North Pan-American Highway at El Alto (40–47 km north of Talara), paved roads wind down to the shore. The two coves are about 15 minutes apart by local transport.

## Información Detallada
Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro lie on the coast of the El Alto and Los Órganos districts, 40 and 47 km north of Talara. Access means leaving the North Pan-American Highway at El Alto and descending paved roads among arid cliffs; the coves are fifteen minutes apart by local transport.

Cabo Blanco's fame rests on its historical fishing legacy: in the 1950s the celebrated Cabo Blanco Fishing Club turned the cove into the world capital of big-game fishing, taking advantage of the convergence of the Humboldt and El Niño currents, which sustain swordfish, giant black marlin and bigeye tuna. Ernest Hemingway came in 1956 to film scenes of The Old Man and the Sea.

In El Ñuro the star activity is controlled swimming and observation of green sea turtles around the communal pier, where the reptiles live permanently; local fishermen run a marine interpretation room. In Cabo Blanco visitors inspect the fishing club remains and pier architecture, plus the challenging tubular left wave known as El Tubo, reserved for advanced surfers.

Swimming with turtles requires life vests; touching the animals or entering with non-biodegradable sunscreen is forbidden.

## Cita Oficial
MiPiura. (2026). *Cabo Blanco and El Ñuro*. Guía Turística de Piura. https://www.mipiura.com/en/playas/cabo-blanco-y-el-nuro/