On the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua, there is little distinction of where nature ends and the city begins. Driving down any given road, it is easy to miss when the pavement turns to dirt and back to pavement again. Small buildings between the trees on the side of the road seem to be equally allotted where ever you go. Even from the center of the capital Managua, it is only a short trip until the modest streets of the city and towns nearby rise into forested mountains and then down to long beaches; the place is simultaneously an environment of unconstrained nature as it is a place of settlement, each unbothered by the the other.