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The island of San Cristobal occupies an important sector of the Admiral Bay.
This island, when talking of tourism, is ignored most of the times, lacking of
valuable forests, except in the south, but it is very rich in marine environments. Bocatorito is an important tourist spot, in the northern part of the island. A labyrinth of mangrove islets create a lagoon scenery that fascinates the tourist due to the calm waters. Once the boat abandon this labytinth, arrive to big sea water lagoon surrounded by mangroves and islands. There is also the site most visited by dolphins in the entire Bay. Many tours come to this place, also known as Dolphin Bay, to show the tourists the playfull marine mammals, most of the times with their babies. Bocatorito is also one of the ngobe indian communities of the island. Their houses are located in two different sectors: one, with better conditions, around an excellent touristic restaurant managed by locales, and the other, poor, to the left of the first one. The community counts with a little more than 150 inhabitants that live in 30 houses, most of them made by wood with palm leaves roof. They don't have electricity or health center, but they have water that comes from a creek and it is carried to the touristic sector by means of an aqueduct. The primary school, with multigrade system, counts with 2 classrooms and 2 teaches, attended by 35 students. Most of the villagers fishermen, activity complemented with agriculture and cattle of subsistence. Some women do handicrafts to sell to the tourists. |
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