Sirsirtara

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Sirsirtara is a indigenous miskito community located in Puerto Lempira, Gracias a Dios, Honduras. The actual population of the city is around 1600 persons and around 152 houses, the community has natural water resource but is not potable for each house they get water direct from the river, they have no acces to lighting energy just some people have solar panels, also there is no communication by any antena for phones signal, there is just 2 cars in the town and some 3 motos, the transportation here is by a private car that has a cost for its use. The community of Sirsirtara has acces to public education by a kinder, and a small school divided in two sections each one with three classrooms one is built with concrete and the other is built by wood, the school has no water nor bathrooms that are on good conditions sames as the classrooms, there are two churches one is Morava and the other catholic, both are very concurrent, the main language in this region is Miskito as is native one and spanish as a second language. One of the main activities of this place is agriculture in small crops of yuca, coconut, rice and beans, fishing, hunting wild animals. The main source of food is the river beside the town that is called River Ibantara or River Mocorón, the river helps to the crops and as a main source of water. The community is remote but has access by the road, this is a dirt road not with asfalt and is accesible, near the community is another small community that share some commercial or cultural needs is called Buena Vista, and are as similiar with the activities that in Sirsirtara does. Women in Sirsirtara is used to work the crops as same as man and take care of their family, other activity women is down to be done is cook, wash clothing and mostly be at home when is a home with the two main members, when wowan is single mother has to do all the work as a man does normally to sustain their home. Sirsirtara preserves their cultural heritage as a ethnia, this includes traditions like food, songs, witchery, native religious rites, mortorious rites, language or dialect, natural medicine and magical beliefs. In this community the soil and lanscape is a big green sabanah almost at the level of the sea maybe 112m over the sea level, the main forest around here is pine tree, near the river you can find some other species of trees, most of the ground is white gravel with clay soil. The town has a parcel kind of distribution housing, with a latrine and a water well, majority of the houses are made with wood as is the traditional house of the miskitos, the inside is just a main room where beds are located and has a addition area for the kitchen this is a traditional clay stove with wood as burner. They have community liders and they use to make reunions to take decisitions on any matter of the town. The community doesn't have money as a main economic resource they trade with food and sometimes when is possible they can have a small amount of money for their homes. They trade some of them color wood like cedro, san Juan, or Caoba is the most big economic source they have but is not all of them, they own the land as community there is a council of ethnic miskitos that regulate the land, the state of Honduras doesn't have any influence or power over their lands. Sirsirtara is located 1 hr of distance of the main city Puerto Lempira, and to get here you have to take the only transport in the main city or by a car.