Peru's surfboard building industry started with some wooden boards made locally. Around 1969, Dennis Choate and Leo Hetzel came and made Pacific Surfboards. Peru was the first country in Latin America to build surfboards and the main manufacturers of this craft were Aldo Fosca, Bruja Letts, Alan Sitt, Fernando Ortiz de Zevallos, Wayo Whilar, and Iván Zarda. Of these shapers, Ivan and Wayo still are on top of the world class elite designing and building surfboards. Both are still shaping state of the art surfboards.