Bawika

The Bawihka were one of the Mayangna peoples of northeastern Nicaragua. Accounts place them on the Bambana River, a tributary of the Prinzapolka, and recall earlier settlements on the Wawa and Kukalaya rivers. Forest and waterways linked their communities across the interior. Like neighbouring Mayangna groups, they belonged to a wider network of peoples whose territories stretched between the Caribbean lowlands and the mountains.