  The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is an air-shower array
located in Mexico. It is sensitive to the highest energy photons we detect at
the Earth, reaching energies of several tens of TeV. The observatory was
completed more than one year ago and we are presenting in this contribution the
first results about its performance. We also show the results of the first-year
survey, the first flaring events detected by the observatory, its sensitivity
to extended sources and the plans for the upgrade that is currently taking
place.
