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Coast near Mundaka, BiscayMundaka is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. On the coast, Mundaka is internationally-renowned for its surfing scene.
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Surfing
Mundaka is well renowned world wide for its quality of surf. Huge swells roll in from the Bay of Biscay and slam into the rocky coastline of the Basque Country. The estuary at Mundaka has created a perfect sandbar which forms hollow waves that can be watched from the town's harbor wall. Mundaka was formerly one of the sites of the World Championship Tour of Surfing. Some great surfers have marked their legacy on Mundaka such as Andy Irons, Taj Burrow, Kelly Slater, Mark Occilupo and Joel Parkinson.
Mundakas´s wave
The wave of Mundaka, considered one of the best lefts of the world, is “perfect” for the practice of surf one of every three days of the year. During the months of winter, the possibility of surfing increases until surpassing 50%.
MundakaAnd it is the month of January, with a 62% of surfeables days, when the bar of Mundaka displays the best scene for the lovers of this sport.
History of Billabong Pro Mundaka
Billabong Pro Mundaka is one of the most important tests of the ASP World Tour. It is celebrated in the Basque locality of Mundaca, during the beginnings of the month of October until half-full of the same month. The event, of eight years of history, has been forced to be suspended in two occasions. First, in 2001, due to the attacks of the 11 of September in New York. Second, in 2005 by the hand of the man.
Disappearance of the wave
The wave of Mundaka is seriously damaged. Its situation is critical although non irreversible. This is what the surfers want to think due to the fact that they have seen how their appraised jewel has not done act of appearance in the last months.Everything began when in 2003, the Murueta shipyard coat 57 tons of laughs of mundaca, with the aim of making it more passable for the different ships. Consequently, the sea of Mundaka has suffered the disappearance of one of its most wanted waves and in this way, the disappearance of Mundaka, of the professional circuit of surf.
SurferCancellation of the test in 2005
The extraction in 2003 of almost 300,000 cubic meters of sand laughs of Urdaibai, caused that the most famous left of Europe would lose it´s position in match WCT of the ASP. The characteristics of the wave changed as if a disease had seized of her. The tube of 400 meters that formed disminished until the 40 meters long, getting to disappear. A diving lead the consequence that, lamentably, all saw come: that the ASP suspended the test of 2005. Mundaca, that received an average of 10,000 visitors with the event, lost its main reclamation and sectors of the region as the guest house one entered into an enormous crisis. Studies of the department of Environment and the University of the Basque Country (UPV) agreed on indicating that the wave was debilitated by the drainage realised by the shipyard of Murueta. The sand was deposited in the beach of Laida and finished changing to the structure of the marine bottom and flowing of the currents. The investigations also kept awake that the own Nature was in charge to forge a similar morphology to which existed before 2003. The force of the sea returned to give to hope to Mundaca and the Billabong Pro. After months of exhausted study, as much the ASP as the sponsor of the event, Billabong, gave green light around Mundaca to the calendar of the maximum world-wide surfer competition.
Last champions
Year Champion Nacionality 2007 Bobby Martinez United States 2006 Bobby Martinez United States 2005 Cancelled - 2004 Luke Egan Australia 2003 Kelly Slater United States 2002 Andy Irons Hawaii 2001 Cancelled - 2000 Shane Dorian Hawaii 1999 Mark Occhilupo Australia 
Mundaka surf championshipOther consequences aside from the environmental ones
After the initial commotion, Mundaka begins little by little to assimilate the enormous lost that represents for the municipality the exclusion of the Billabong Pro of world-wide circuit WCT of surf.It has been a cold water jug for Mundaka and all the Basque seashore.For the proprietors of guest house businesses and establishments generally, the appointment represents an important source of income “equalable to the one of summer”
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