Photos and movies of people surfing in the Amazon River Pororokka

In the Amazon River, a large wave of 5 m high flows backward from the mouth, a phenomenon called Pororoca occurs. Pororoca dates back upstream at a speed of 65 km / h, and it may be from 300 km to the estuary. A person who surfed this big wave recently appeared, and in 2003 there were people who were riding in the wave for 34 minutes.

Photos and movies surfing in Pororoca are from the following.
Pororoca on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Pororoca_Festival - 05a on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


PoRoroca on Flickr - Photo Sharing!


Besides surfing, there seem to be some people who canoe.












YouTube - pororoca surfing


YouTube - pororoca 1


YouTube - pororoca 2


A longer movie.
Red Bull Pororoca - Surf Amazon - Google Video






You can download movies from "TRAILER" on the left.
Boreriders.com




An explanatory movie on what Pororoccha is like. I can understand why the old man was afraid of the disaster.
YouTube - The Pororoca Phenomenon


A story of a director who covered Pororoca. Perhaps the movie that I introduced may also belong to the Araguari River.

Okamura Atsushi B16 - Poro Rokka's thought as a poet

Other images can be found at the link below.

Corran Addison about the Pororoca Wave

RB Big-Wave Tow-in surfers on mile-long Pororoca wave