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Surfing in Mauritania has left few traces online. Here are the ones we found: films, videos, surf press articles, travel stories and spot guides.
Surfing in Mauritania has left few traces online. Here are the ones we found: films, videos, surf press articles, travel stories and spot guides.
The only documentary about surfing in Mauritania that we found (52 min). A family settles in the country and meets the small surf community; a trip to Lagouira in a big swell. Screened at the Bilbao Surf Film Festival 2025.
An episode of a surf travel TV series shot in Mauritania. Only the trailer is freely available.
Three months of filming from Morocco to the Gambia, Mauritania included, meeting local surf cultures.
The Basque surfer explores the desert coast alone, on a shortboard and a longboard. The most watched of the videos about surfing in Mauritania that we found.
A season at the Wharf club in Nouakchott. The channel posted one video per season from 2019 to 2023.
Sandstorm and a session at the Nouakchott Wharf, winter 1997-1998: one of the oldest filmed traces of surfing in the country.
Surfers at the Wharf filmed by drone.
The story of the 2008 surfEXPLORE expedition on the Nouadhibou peninsula, chasing winter swells.
The track from Nouadhibou to Cap Blanc.
Cap Blanc's monk seal colony, the surfers' neighbours.
The 2008 surfEXPLORE mission on the army-held peninsula: the commander's permit, a driver because of the mines, and the right-hander below the old Spanish fort.
Mauritania makes the list for the long-period North Atlantic swells, October to April, on the points of the Nouadhibou peninsula.
A surf road trip from Sidi Kaouki to Nouadhibou: the border, the Cape, a stranded ship and a monk seal mid-session.
A portrait of Kepa Acero, who also explains why he cut his stay in Mauritania short.
A van crossing from Guerguerat to the Senegal border, with border waiting times, fuel and the vehicle pass.
How to reach the Cap Blanc lighthouse by the track above the railway, and the reserve entrance.
An ocean-front hotel and campsite on the peninsula, well known to overlanders.
Lagouira and its long rights, the old pier south of Nouakchott, and a mostly flat, sandy coastline.
Spot pages and conditions, including the Dakhlet Nouadhibou area.
Links to the original sources, gathered in October 2026. Know a film, article or video that is missing? Tell us about it.