The inhabitants of Gracias, La Campa, and other nearby aldeas, including San Manuel Colohete, are mainly of Lenca descent.

Although the aldea is small, there are multiple smaller and spread out satellite communities in the hills above La Campa, such as Cruz Alta.

These communities grow coffee to consume and sell; substance crops of rice, mango, a dozen varieties of bananas, and black beans; and run their own public elementary schools and churches.

An enormous advantage it has consists of numerous fresh water springs, most emanating from within Celaque National Park.

[citation needed] The National Intitue of Statistics projected a population increase to reach in excess of 5 thousand inhabitants by 2008.