Indigenous Influence of Nicaragua

Modern Nicaragua is the place where South American and Mesoamerican indigenous people intermingled. Remains of the inhabitants is visible in pictographs left by various tribes as well as fossilized footprints from Acahualinca. The indigenous people of the area were closely related to the Maya, and had extensive trade relations with peoples off of Caribbean islands, which we can find evidence in leftover from trade artifacts. These peoples were some of the first to encounter conquistadors, through which infectious disease killed a great many, and others were interbred with the Spanish.