Awastara

Awastara is a Miskito community on Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast. Its name joins the Miskito words for pine and great, recalling a large pine tree once associated with the settlement. The surrounding country includes sandy coast, wetlands, pine woodland and waterways. Fishing is an old practice here, and the offshore cays form part of the wider maritime landscape of the Miskito coast.

The later city of Puerto Cabezas lies here.