Pearl Lagoon

Pearl Lagoon opens to the Caribbean on Nicaragua's coast, with mangroves and river mouths around its brackish waters. Kukra communities once lived along the lagoon and the coast between it and the Río Grande. In the later seventeenth century, the region's history was changed by the arrival of Africans brought to the Americas as enslaved people and by the southward expansion of Miskito groups allied with English raiders. The Kukra population was eventually absorbed or dispersed.