Qualla: El Ostional https://qualla.com/el-ostional en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: El Ostional https://qualla.com/el-ostional El Ostional: Introduction https://qualla.com/el-ostional/ In 1995, a group of armadillo hunters near El Ostional stumbled into something far older than the village itself. Digging into a burrow, they found fragments of ancient pottery. Further excavation at the site -- just two kilometers from town, in an area called Miraflor -- uncovered human remains seated on stone metates, adorned with necklaces of white, black, and green beads, some with jade figurines. The indigenous cemetery belonged to the Greater Nicoya culture, and the jade marked its occupants as people of status. Despite this discovery, the site has never been formally studied or protected. Hundreds of pieces were sold or given away during the 1990s. El Ostional's history, like much of Nicaragua's Pacific coast, tends to surface by accident and slip away before anyone can hold onto it.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/1/g/p/el-ostional-wp/d1gp-el-ostional-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full El Ostional: The Oyster Bay https://qualla.com/el-ostional/ El Ostional takes its name from the Spanish word for oyster -- ostion -- and the naming was literal. Indigenous people settled this crescent-shaped bay on Nicaragua's Pacific coast because of the abundance of fish, turtles, and oysters in its mangrove estuary. The mangrove water ...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/1/g/p/el-ostional-wp/d1gp-el-ostional-the-oyster-bay.mp3 0:06 2 full El Ostional: Colina 155 https://qualla.com/el-ostional/ The hill overlooking El Ostional carries a military designation rather than a name: Colina 155. In late May 1979, during the final phase of the Nicaraguan Revolution, young Sandinista guerrillas -- some as young as 15 -- climbed the hill, dug trenches, and waited. The Southern Fr...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/1/g/p/el-ostional-wp/d1gp-el-ostional-colina-155.mp3 0:06 3 full El Ostional: When the Sea Rose https://qualla.com/el-ostional/ On September 2, 1992, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck off Nicaragua's central Pacific coast and generated a tsunami that devastated communities along the shore. Run-up values ranged from 2 meters in the north to 10 meters at some central locations. In El Ostional, the water rea...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/1/g/p/el-ostional-wp/d1gp-el-ostional-when-the-sea-rose.mp3 0:06 4 full El Ostional: An Ecosystem Under Pressure https://qualla.com/el-ostional/ El Ostional's bay supports remarkable biodiversity -- 304 classified species of fish and shellfish, with an estimated 1,423 species along the broader Pacific coast. Olive ridley turtles nest on its beaches. Howler monkeys, spider monkeys, white-headed capuchins, jaguars, pumas, a...

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