# Puerto Cabezas (NI PUZ)

**UN/LOCODE:** NI PUZ  
**Country:** Nicaragua  
**Water Body:** Caribbean Sea; North Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Very Small  
**Harbor Type:** Open Roadstead  
**GPS:** 14.0167, -83.3833

A rebuilt pier of about 280 metres, with fixed cranes up to 70 tonnes, is the working heart of Puerto Cabezas – known in Miskito as Bilwi – on Nicaragua's North Caribbean coast. The multipurpose terminal handles timber and resin exports, mining-machinery imports, petroleum products and fishing vessels, with only limited container capability. As an open roadstead of modest depth – roughly 10 metres in the channel and 6.4 metres at the pier – it is built for conventional and breakbulk cargo rather than large container lines. Founded in 1921 as a company town of the Bragman's Bluff Lumber Company, the port remains the main maritime gateway of the autonomous RACCN region, whose hinterland has scant rail access. For containerised or larger shipments, El Bluff/Bluefields to the south and the Pacific main port of Corinto are the alternatives.

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