On a 2013 trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Miskitu Coast of Caribbean Honduras and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. As sea levels rise, already economically-marginalized coastal villages in the mangrove swamps are slowly being inundated by the rising tides.
![mangrove, La Mosquitia, Honduras, Miskito Indians](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mangrove-Swamp-Jack-Eidt-1280x943-e1383399531381.jpg)
STORY: Miskitu Stories: ‘Crazy Sickness’ and the Duendes of the Wild
![Rio Kruta, Miskitu Village, Miskito Indians](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Rio-Kruta-Jack-Eidt-1280x1215-e1383399975716.jpg)
![Rio Kruta, La Mosquitia, Honduras, fishing, Caribbean Sea, Miskito People](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Fishing-off-Kruta-Jack-Eidt-1280x960-e1383401173788.jpg)
STORY: Miskitu Portrait: Lobster and Life on Laguna Caratasca
![Rio Kruta, La Moskitia, La Mosquitia, Honduras, Miskito People](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Morning-Action-Miskitu-Dock-Jack-Eidt-1280x960-e1383400605435.jpg)
STORY: Miskitu Legend: Journey for Love into the Afterlife
![Miskito People, La Moskitia, Honduras, Rio Kruta](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Friendki-na-Kruta-Jack-Eidt-1280x959-e1383401396390.jpg)
![Kruta, Miskito Indians, Honduras](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Waikna-Lupia-Kruta-Jack-Eidt-839x1280-e1383401775989.jpg)
![Miskitu society, Honduras, Miskito Indians](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Willbania-from-Kruta-Jack-Eidt-1280x960-e1383402521153.jpg)
![Kruta, Miskitu People, Miskito Indians, Honduras, La Mosquitia](https://wilderutopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kruta-Wilds-Jack-Eidt-1280x957-e1383402081673.jpg)
Updated 11 October 2021
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