The closest town is ten minutes away called Salinas Grandes, a fishing and a salt mining community. You can pick up basic supplies and all the fresh fish you can eat. Also, there is the port town of Puerto Sandino, you can reach by boat in ten minutes. Here, you will find all your groceries and charters for boating. For an authentic spanish colonial city experience, you are very close to Leon. Leon is 14 minutes on a dirt road to the Pan American highway and then 10 minutes on this paved, good quality highway. Here you will find all of the luxuries of the country's second largest city of 490,000 people.