In 1821, when Central America gained independence from Spain, England intervened again on the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast by proclaiming the Kingdom of Mosquitia as a British protectorate, integrating the territory of Kukra Hill into it.

The Kukras were absorbed by the dominant Miskitos by the end of the 18th century, and the territory began to be repopulated in the early 19th century when the government of Nicaragua dismantled local governments and began to exert sovereignty over the Caribbean Coast territory, granting the municipality to American concessionaires for the exploitation of rubber, precious woods, bananas, prickly pear, cocoa, and livestock.

The current population of Nicaragua's Caribbean coast is made up of descendants from a wide variety of groups, including African blacks, Chinese, and Europeans.

The soils of Kukra Hill are among the most fertile in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region; they are of moderately heavy texture, with a high percentage of fine elements, clay, and silt.

Most of the primary forest that originally covered the territory has disappeared due to deforestation for timber extraction, the establishment of crops, or pastures.

in the western part of the territory; the deforested areas are covered by pastures without livestock, large plots of sugarcane and oil palm, which is the main source of employment in the south Atlantic region, hosted by a national company of the same group AGROSA, owned by Nicaraguan businessmen.

[2] The municipality is endowed with very good land and water, so the main economic activity is livestock, accompanied by agriculture.