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Big Hitters

By Ritmo Costeño • Mar 23rd, 2009 • Category: Community

This weekend the annual Atlantic Coast baseball tournament is coming to Bluefields. After a highly successful tournament last year in the Mining Triangle, this year’s event is sure to be bigger than ever.
Ritmo Costeño will bring you all the highlights and results from the tournament, so keep on visiting the site for the latest information.



Exploring the Indio Maiz

By Ritmo Costeño • Feb 21st, 2009 • Category: Environment, Travel

There are no roads that reach it, there are no hotels to stay at and if you’re hungry there are no restaurants or cafes either yet the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve is one of the country’s leading tourist destinations.



BSS opens recording studio

By Ritmo Costeño • Feb 20th, 2009 • Category: Lead Article

Musicians throughout the Atlantic Coast are now in a position to reach new audiences for their tunes with the opening of the first professional recording studio in the region in Bluefields.



King of the Tiles

By Ritmo Costeño • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Community, Culture

At first it seems like a wild bar room brawl is taking place. You can hear it from a block away. A raucous crowd of men stand on the sidewalk peering in and cheering. And then there is the sounds – bam, thud and crash. As you move closer however, it becomes obvious that this [...]



From Monkey Point to Vegas

By Ritmo Costeño • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Features

The Atlantic Coast is no outpost when it comes to producing world class sportsmen. Ask anyone in the street in Bluefields and they will tell you with pride about the local boys who have made it to the major leagues in the states, such as Devern Hansack, Marvin Bernard and Albert Williams. But the latest [...]



Canoeing in the Indio Maiz

By Ritmo Costeño • Jul 4th, 2008 • Category: Travel

World Class Wilderness

The BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve is the largest protected rainforest in the Americas after the Amazon, covering an area in excess of 1.8 million acres in the department of Jinotega and the Autonomous North Atlantic Region (RAAN).
While scientific research in the area is far from complete, it is estimated that there are as many [...]



Pearl Keys – Caribbean Splendour

By Ritmo Costeño • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features, Travel

Ever fancied yourself as a modern day Robinson Crusoe? There are few better places to test your mettle than the isolated tropical paradise that is the Pearl Keys.



An undiscovered gem

By Ritmo Costeño • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Features

For an area of such amazing natural beauty and diverse cultures it is perhaps surprising that not more visitors take the time to get to know Pearl Lagoon. Less than one and a half hours from Bluefields by Panga, the Pearl Lagoon area is home to charming towns, accessible indigenous villages, jungle lined rivers and [...]