Caratasca Lagoon

Caratasca Lagoon opens from the Caribbean coast of north-eastern Honduras, a wide body of brackish water covering about 1,100 square kilometres. Several rivers, among them the Mocorón, Warunta and Nakunta, drain the wet lowlands behind the shore into it. Tansin is the largest island in the lagoon, and sandbars and channels divide its waters into navigable reaches. Miskito fishers and traders used the lagoon's canoe routes to move between the coast and the forests inland.