Matagalpa is known for its Indian Community, they are based mostly in El Chile, 18 kiometers from the city on the way to the town of San Ramon. They do their own cottom fabric and leather articles for sale. In Matagalpa you can also find these articles, as well as black ceramic unique in this region. Locally you can buy black ceramic, cowboy boots, guitars and violins local made. Close to the Cathedral there is an oil painting workshop where you can buy oil paintings with local motives like:nice coffee farms, ranches, oxen carts, carrying mules, campesinos, and mountain scenery, for reasonable prices.You can buy local fruits like bananas, pijibay, jocotes, oranges grapefruit, nisperos, mamey, etc.Walk around the town and take nice photographs of oxen carts, cowboys, loaded mules, women wearing their chals rebozo, men with hats, guitar and violin Polkas and Mazurcas. Pay them a tip to play you a music, and things that you can not find in your place of origin. Nature here is still like it was 100 years ago.
