Notification for interested buyers of land

The Rama Territorial Government (GTR) makes public, that according to

• Law 445 of January 2003, “Communal Property Right of the Indigenous Peoples and
Ethnic Communities in the Autonomous Regions of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua and
the Rivers Bocay, Coco, Indio and Maíz”,

• In line with Law 28 of October 1987 “The Regional Autonomy Regime of the Atlantic
Coast of Nicaragua”

The Nicaraguan State recognizes the ownership to the indigenous and ethnic communities
of the land they occupy traditionally.

A consequence of this legislation is that:

The colonist or third parties that have been living in the territory more than 10 years are
welcome to stay because they have been living there peacefully together with the Rama
without negotiating land or compromising our rights, like they have also preserved natural
resources and our environment. See the Rama Politic on Third Party Occupancy in the
Rama Territory

Likewise we would like to remind the public in general and in particular lawyers, judges
and public registration offices involved in land transactions that, according to law 28,
indigenous lands have been illegal to sell and buy since 1987.

That since the promulgation of Law 445 in 2003, no Transitory Titles (Títulos Supletorios)
nor titles based on the Agriculture Reform Legislation can be given in indigenous or ethnic
peoples’ land. (Law 445 article 71).

We therefore recommend national and international interested buyers to be extremely

careful if they are being offered to buy property right that is based on that kind of titles and
located in the traditional Rama Territory (or any indigenous land). Otherwise you run the
risk to get involved in a land conflict with our Territorial Government and will loose the
money invested.

The Rama Territorial Government also ask the Regional and Municipal authorities to cease
motivating colonists to migrate into the Rama Territory which are at the same time
protected areas by the State, and settlement is double illegal according to the regulations of
the National Law on Environment and Natural Resources.

Sebastian McCrea Ruiz Pearl M. Watson

President of the Rama Territorial Government Secretary of the Rama Government