Teustepe Nicaragua
Teustepe Valley Nicaragua
Teustepe Valley Nicaragua is a small village of low mountains in a region of arid climate and in fact, the driest in the country (western slopes of the mountain ranges of Central and North) where rainfall, erratic, appearing in a sentence 4 months.
The houses are made of adobe and roofs, handcrafted tiles (terracotta). The peasants live mostly livestock. Many have no land and rent due. Red beans, corn and sorghum, or on the banks of some rivers is grown on high.
Cows, pigs, ducks, etc. They are strange, small and hardy breeds, descendants of the races that were imported by the Spanish colonists and today, completely disappeared in Europe!
Agricultural activity being limited to a very short rain season, most farmers migrate much of the year to other regions: the North of the country to the coffee harvest, or East for growing beans. But in recent years, most migrate to Costa Rica, its plantations of sugar cane, bananas, palms, etc.
Farmers themselves have to emigrate with all their animals in search of greener pastures, occupying the width of roads at certain times of the year.
