The dry season means even the rivers go dry, and the cattle grow boney-looking and meager. This shot is of the Coco River during the dry season, when the meandering waters change course from day to day.

The edge of the area that looks scraped clean by the water indicates how high the flood waters reached, and with what force they flowed, during Hurricane Mitch. The Río Coco tore straight through the mountain town of Wiwili. The two separate halves of Wiwili subsequently decided to go their own ways: one side now belongs to the department (administrative unit) of Madriz and one to Jinotega.