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This community, with a population of more than 300 inhabitants, is located in the northeast tip of Isla Bastimentos, almost in front of Zapatillas Cays. Their homes, most of them over stilts, are built in wood with roofs made of palm leaves (guagara) or zinc.
The actual inhabitants of the community are Ngobe indians, whose origin is Cusapín, Bahía Azul and Cricamola, in the Valiente Peninsula, but the first occupants where afrocaribbeans who abandon the place later.
Visitors can arrive at the community by boat and, once in the entrance of the creek, navegate using the channels through a dense mangrove forest until arriving at the dock. The way that take to the community is made with concrete only in the beginning.
They do not have electricity and to have water they depend on well and rainwater. In Salt Creek there are a primary and secondary schools and a public phone, that is not working most of the time.
The main occupations of the locals are fishing and agriculture, including some cattle growing. The extraction of lobster,
is the activity that render better incomes to them.
The region is very attractive for the tourism because it is in the outskirts of the Marine Park, near leafy forests, wetlands and several guided trails that take to forests, to the beaches and near reefs. Recently it has been constructed in the community several cabins for lodging, as well as a Visitors Center where tourists can know the ngobe culture including many different kinds of handicrafts.
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