Overview
- Catalina Zariquiey won silver in U16 girls at the ISA Junior World Championship in Punta Rocas, becoming the first Peruvian female surfer to reach a junior world podium.
- Team Perú recorded a best-ever fourth place in the overall standings, helped by Bastián Arévalo’s fifth place in U16 boys.
- The tournament took place at the IPD’s High-Performance Center in Punta Rocas, underscoring Peru’s role as a host for elite junior surfing events.
- More than 50 museums reported 234,109 visitors in 2025, a 47% increase attributed to Museos Abiertos, which offers free Sunday entry to state-run sites.
- Callao governor Ciro Castillo Rojo is under a 15-day preliminary detention order in a fiscal probe that alleges he led a network responsible for 63 irregular contracts and S/1.4 million in losses; investigators said he was not at home during an operation linked to the case.