El Cocal spans 29,111 hectares (71,904 acres) of pristine, unspoiled and virtually uninhabited tropical land. Vast stretches of Caribbean sand alternate with rocky cliffs for 33 miles. The property borders the Rio Indio-Maiz Biological Reserve in southeastern Nicaragua, a place virtually untouched by modern man. Spanning 640,000 acres, Rio Indio-Maiz is the largest lowland tropical rainforest North of the Amazon. A state land preserve of over one million acres also buffers the property's Northern and Western borders.

With tropical lowland forest, mangrove estuaries, endless jungle waterways, lagoons, rocky cliffs and pristine Caribbean beaches, El Cocal is a truly unique and eclectic geographic phenomenon that never ceases to amaze. El Cocal is even home to a working coconut plantation (hence its namesake).