This page houses a map of nicaragua's atlantic coast region dated 8 may 1928.   As can be seen in the legend to the right, the US Marines made this map by reducing & tracing an original map produced by the Bragmans Bluff Division of the Standard Fruit & Steamship Company.   It is very likely that the order to produce a small, compact, useful map of the East Coast region and the mining districts resulted directly from the surprise Sandinista offensive into the Pis Pis & La Luz mining districts a month earlier, commencing in mid-April 1928, as seen in the EAST COAST PAGES, where this map is also housed.

     This map is especially useful for its depiction of the plots of land ceded to private companies, mostly Bragmans Bluff Lumber Company, for their banana-growing & lumbering operations.  A JPEG file containing the whole map is followed by a colorized version that helps one to visualize more clearly those zones devoted to production of bananas & lumber for export.

     The original map is housed in RG127 in Archives II in College Park, MD and measures 21" high x 25" wide.  The map presented here is a panoramic JPEG stitch of scans of a photocopy.