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Nicaraguan Córdoba
The córdoba (, currency sign, sign: C$; ISO 4217, code: NIO) is the currency of Nicaragua and is divided into 100 ''centavos''. History The first córdoba was introduced with the new National Bank of Nicaragua (Banco Nacional de Nicaragua Incorporado) which was created in 1912, after which the government of Adolfo Díaz promulgated the Monetary Conversion Law, in March 1912. This law created the monetary unit "córdoba", named after Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, founder of Nicaragua and the cities of León, Nicaragua, León and Granada, Nicaragua, Granada, but due to the prevailing political instability at that time, the córdoba did not circulate until 1913. It replaced the Nicaraguan peso, peso moneda corriente, the Nicaraguan currency between 1878 and 1912. In 1960 the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) was founded and the banknotes and coins that until that date were issued by the National Bank of Nicaragua, began ...
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Anastasio Somoza García
Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 until his assassination on 29 September 1956, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military dictator. He was the patriarch of the Somoza family, which ruled Nicaragua as a family dictatorship for 42 years. The son of a wealthy coffee planter, Somoza was educated in the United States. After his return to Nicaragua, he helped oust President Adolfo Díaz. He became the foreign secretary and took the title of "General". With the help of the US Marine Corps, which occupied Nicaragua at the time, Somoza became the head of the National Guard. This gave him the power base to remove his wife's uncle, Juan Bautista Sacasa, from the presidency, and make himself president in 1937. In 1947, an ally nominally succeeded him, but he retained p ...
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Banco Central De Nicaragua
The Central Bank of Nicaragua () is the central bank of Nicaragua. History The bank was established in 1960 and commenced operations on 1 January 1961. Presidents *Francisco Laínez Matamoros, January 1961 - May 1968 *Gustavo A. Guerrero, May 1968 - June 1969 *Roberto Incer Barquero, August 1969 - July 1979 *Arturo Cruz Porras, July 1979 - May 1980 *Alfredo Alaniz Downing, May 1980 - June 1981 *Alfredo César Aguirre, June 1981 - May 1982 *Luis Enrique Figueroa, May 1982 - August 1985 *Joaquín Cuadra Chamorro, August 1985 - April 1990 *Francisco Mayorga, April 1990 - October 1990 *Raúl Lacayo Solórzano, October 1990 - January 1992 *Silvio De Franco Montalván, January 1992 - September 1992 *José Evenor Taboada, October 1992 - January 1997 *Noel Ramírez Sánchez, January 1997 - January 2002 *Mario Alonso Icabalceta, January 2002 - May 2006 *Mario Arana Sevilla, May 2006 - January 2007 *Antenor Rosales Bolaños, January 2007 - February 2012 *Alberto Guevara Obregón, Februa ...
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500 Cordobas
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ...
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Rubén Darío National Theatre
The Rubén Darío National Theatre () is the national theatre of Nicaragua. It is located in the capital, Managua, and was named in honor of Nicaragua's (and one of Latin America's) most renowned poets, Rubén Darío. History The National Theater was one of the few major buildings to survive, within the centre of Managua, after the devastating 1972 Managua earthquake. The Theater The Nicaraguan National Theater is a leading venue for cultural life in Managua, including music, theater and the visual artsThe theater serves as the most important theater for shows and concert A concert, often known informally as a gig or show, is a live performance of music in front of an audience. The performance may be carried by a single musician, in which case it is sometimes called a recital, or by a musical ensemble such as an ...s. See also * Culture of Nicaragua External linksRubén Darío National TheaterOfficial WebsiteVianica.comAll about the National Theater. Buildings and ...
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Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish-language literature and journalism. Life His parents, Manuel García and Rosa Sarmiento were married on 26 April 1866, in León, Nicaragua, after obtaining the necessary ecclesiastic permissions since they were second degree cousins. However, Manuel's conduct of allegedly engaging in excessive consumption of alcohol prompted Rosa to abandon her conjugal home and flee to the city of Metapa (modern Ciudad Darío) in Matagalpa where she gave birth to Félix Rubén. The couple made up and Rosa even gave birth to a second child, a daughter named Cándida Rosa, who died a few days after being born. The marriage deteriorated again to the point where Rosa left he ...
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Fortress Of The Immaculate Conception
The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, ( Spanish: ''El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción'') is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River (''Río San Juan''), in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua. The fortress is situated approximately 6 kilometers from the border with Costa Rica, at the ''Raudal del Diablo'' rapids of the San Juan River. It was completed in 1675 as part of a series of fortifications along the San Juan River, to defend against pirate attacks upon the city of Granada (which can be reached by navigating upstream from the Caribbean Sea along the San Juan River into Lake Nicaragua). The settlement of El Castillo and its fortress continued to be strategically important to the Captaincy General of Guatemala until the late 18th century. An important historic landmark of Nicaragua, the fortress is on a list of sites as an initial stage in achieving World Heritage Site status with the United Nations Educational, Scientific an ...
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Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of '' La Prensa'', the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a 1977 laureate of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize of Columbia University in New York. He married Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who later went on to become President of Nicaragua (1990–1997). In 1978, he was shot to death, one of the precipitating events of the overthrow of the Somoza regime the following year. Background Chamorro was a son of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya and wife Margarita Cardenal Argüello and paternal grandson of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Bolaños and wife Ana María Zelaya Bolaños. He was the maternal grandson of Salvador Cardenal Saborío (son of Pedro Cardenal Ayerdi and wife Ana Ma. Saborio Bonilla), and wife Isabel Argüello Prado (daughter of Pedro Argüello Argüello and wife Leocadia Parado y Méndez). Both we ...
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50 Cordobas Front 2002 Reg Cir
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determined ...
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José Santos Zelaya
José Santos Zelaya López (1 November 1853 – 17 May 1919) was the President of Nicaragua from 25 July 1893 to 21 December 1909. He was liberal. In 1909, Zelaya was ousted from office in a rebellion led by conservative Juan José Estrada who was aided by the U.S. government. The overthrow of Zelaya led to a civil war which was brought to an end with the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in 1912. Early life He was a son of José María Zelaya Irigoyen, who was originally from Olancho, Honduras, and his mistress Juana López Ramírez. His father José María was married to Rosario Fernández. Politics Zelaya was of Nicaragua's Liberal party and enacted a number of progressive programs, including improved public education, railroads, and established steam ship lines. He also enacted constitutional rights that provided for equal rights, property guarantees, habeas corpus, compulsory vote, compulsory education, the protection of arts and industry, minority representation, ...
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C$20 Cordobas
C$ may refer to: * Administrative share, hidden network shares in Microsoft Windows * Canadian dollar, currency of Canada * Confederate States dollar, historical currency of the Confederate States of America * Nicaraguan córdoba The córdoba (, currency sign, sign: C$; ISO 4217, code: NIO) is the currency of Nicaragua and is divided into 100 ''centavos''. History The first córdoba was introduced with the new National Bank of Nicaragua (Banco Nacional de Nicaragua In ..., currency of Nicaragua See also * $ (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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