<span>Lake Nicaragua is the largest in central america</span>
The main reason FOR exploiting a tropical rainforest would be the products we get out of it -> pretty orchids for our gardens, the products of plants that can be used as food or medice (1/4 of all medicine comes from the rainforests), the exotic animals, the timber than ccan be used for building, etc.
At the beach. Its not desert like and its the only logical explaination I can logically come up with.