Guaxenicos

The Guaxenicos inhabited the country north of León, in the lowlands toward the Gulf of Fonseca. The sixteenth-century chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo described communities bearing this name along the route beyond Olocotón toward Palangagalpa. Their settlements lay within a landscape of rivers and plains on the Pacific side of Nicaragua, where several indigenous peoples encountered the advancing Spanish colonial settlements.