Nito was a trading post of the Maya civilization in Mesoamerica. The site was located at the mouth of the Dulce River, where the river empties into the Gulf of Honduras. The modern Guatemalan city of San Gil de Buena Vista in Izabal Department now occupies the area. Ralph Roys proposed that Nito was inhabited by Pipil people, but it has also been considered a Manche Ch'ol settlement.