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Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

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Abortion in Nicaragua Abortion in Nicaragua is completely illegal. Prior to a change in the law, which took effect on 18 November 2006, the law allowed pregnancies to be terminated for "therapeutic" reasons, but this clause is no longer in effect. Abortion law in Nicar ...

Acoyapa Acoyapa is a town and a municipality in the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. Its name comes from the word "Acoyaph" which means "place from above". Geography The municipality is bordered by Juigalpa, San Pedro de Lóvago, and Santo Tomás ...

Adán Cárdenas Adán Cárdenas del Castillo (7 June 1836 – 1 January 1916) was a Nicaraguan politician and doctor. He also served as the President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua. C� ...

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Adolfo Calero Adolfo Calero Portocarrero (December 22, 1931 – June 2, 2012) was a Nicaraguan businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista government. Calero was respons ...

Adolfo Díaz Adolfo Díaz Recinos (15 July 1875 in Alajuela, Costa Rica – 29 January 1964 in San José, Costa Rica) served as the President of Nicaragua between 9 May 1911 and 1 January 1917 and again between 14 November 1926 and 1 January 1929. Born in C ...

Aeronica Aerolíneas Nicaragüenses S.A., operating as Aeronica, was an airline based in Nicaragua. Headquartered in the capital Managua, it operated scheduled passenger flights within Central America, as well as to Mexico City and the United States from ...

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Agriculture in Nicaragua Nicaragua produces coffee, cotton, bananas, sugar and beef cattle. Production In 2018, Nicaragua produced 7.2 million tons of sugarcane, being heavily dependent on this product. In addition to sugarcane, the country produced 395 thousand tons of ...

Alexander Vandegrift General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, USMC (March 13, 1887 – May 8, 1973) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. During World War II, he commanded the 1st Marine Division to victory in its first ground offensive of the war, the Bat ...

Alexis Argüello Alexis Argüello (April 19, 1952 – July 1, 2009) was a Nicaraguan professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 1995, and later became a politician. He was a three-weight world champion, having held the WBA featherweight title from 1974 to 19 ...

Alfonso Cortés Alfonso Cortés (9 December 1893 – 3 February 1969) was a Nicaraguan poet. He is often referred to as the second-most-important Nicaraguan poet, with Rubén Darío, who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (moder ...

Alfonso Robelo Luis Alfonso Robelo Callejas (born October 11, 1939),is a Nicaraguan businessman, was the founder of the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (MDN). Early life and education Luis Alfonso Robelo Callejas was born in Leon, Nicaragua on October 11, 1 ...

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Altagracia : : : Altagracia () is a municipality in the Rivas Department of Nicaragua. It is the second largest town on the island of Ometepe. Its original name was Astagalpa, meaning ‘house of the herons’ in Nahuatl. This city also has a ferry port, ...

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América Managua América Managua is a Nicaraguan football team who last played at the local top level in the 2010/2011 season. History It is based in Managua, and has been for long time the most successful team of the capital city and the one with the most fa ...

American Nicaraguan School American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

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Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

The division of the Americas into the continents of

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

is somewhat arbitrary. Most commonly,

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...

is considered to be a part of North America and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

is considered a part of South America.

Geologically Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other E ...

, the boundary between the two continents is defined by the boundary between the

Caribbean Plate The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometers (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders ...

and the

South American Plate The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-A ...

. This places the boundary roughly along the Panama-Colombia border. Other definitions place the boundary at the lowest natural crossing of the

Isthmus of Panama The Isthmus of Panama ( es, Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. It contains the country ...

near the

Panama Canal The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit ...

, or along the canal itself. Another definition places the boundary at the lowest crossing of

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

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Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ( es, Lago de Nicaragua, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest lake in Central America, the 19th largest lake in the world (by area) and the t ...

. This definition splits Central America between the continents of North and South America. **

Greater North America may be geographically subdivided into

Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America. The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean and Central America).Gonzalez, Joseph. 20 ...

, and the

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

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Central America is defined as the southeasternmost extent of North America, most commonly including the seven nations of

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

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North Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

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North Pacific Ocean North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

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Anastasio Somoza Debayle Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle (; 5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was ''de facto'' ruler of ...

Anastasio Somoza García Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1937 until his assassination in 1956. He was only officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 19 ...

Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (born 1 February 1951) is a Nicaraguan American colonel and businessman. Biography Early life Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero was born on December 18, 1951, in Miami, Florida, United States. A member of the Somoza fa ...

Ancient footprints of Acahualinca The Ancient footprints of Acahualinca (; es, Huellas de Acahualinca) exist in Managua, Nicaragua near the southern shore of Lake Managua. The region was once called "El Cauce". The tracks are fossil Late Holocene human footprints left behind in ...

* Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve *

Aristides Sánchez José Aristides Sánchez Herdocia served as a key political figure among the Nicaraguan Contras. Early on, he joined Enrique Bermúdez in efforts to start a rebel opposition to the new Sandinista government, a hand-picked choice of the CIA for ...

Arlen Siu Arlen Siu Bermúdez (15 July 1955 – 1 August 1975), was a singer-songwriter, essayist and Sandinista revolutionary, who became one of the first casualties during the insurrection against Somoza. Her death at an early age, made her a local cele ...

* Armando Morales Barillas *

Armando Morales Armando Morales (January 15, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was an internationally renowned Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered one of the most important painters of Nicaragua. Morales, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua, received many awar ...

Arnoldo Alemán José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo (born 23 January 1946) is a Nicaraguan politician who served as the 81st president of Nicaragua from 10 January 1997 to 10 January 2002. In 2003, he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to a 20-year prison term; ...

Arroz a la valenciana Arroz a la valenciana (''Valencian-style rice''; in Valencian, ''arròs a la valenciana'') or Valencian rice is a name for a multitude of rice dishes from diverse cuisines of the world, which originate from the rice-cooking tradition of the Valenc ...

* Arturo Cruz, Jr. *

Arturo Cruz Arturo José Cruz Porras (December 18, 1923 – July 9, 2013), sometimes called Arturo Cruz Sr. to distinguish him from his son, was a Nicaraguan banker and technocrat. He became prominent in politics during the Sandinista (FSLN) era. After repeate ...

* Asociación de Scouts de Nicaragua * Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua) * Atlas of Nicaragua *

Atv98 The atv98 channel (Asamblea TV) is a cable television channel from Nicaragua, similar to C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN ) is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable tele ...

Aubry Campbell Ingram Aubry is a French surname and given name. Notable people with the name include * Aubry or Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (died c. 1252), medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin * Alan Aubry (born 1974), French photographer * Augusto Aubry ( ...

Augusto César Sandino Augusto C. Sandino (; May 18, 1895 February 21, 1934), full name Augusto Nicolás Calderón de Sandino y José de María Sandino, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupat ...

* Authentic Costeño Autonomy Movement *

Ave Maria University-Latin American Campus Keiser University - Latin American Campus (KU) is a branch campus of Keiser University in Florida, United States. It is located in the small town of San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua. It is perhaps one of the only U.S. universities in Central America ...

* Avena (drink) *

Awas Tingni Awas Tingni is an indigenous Mayagna community of some 2,400 members on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, in the municipality of Waspam in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. Awas Tingni is located near the junction of the Rio Wawa and the ...

* Ayax Delgado *

Azarías Pallais Azarías de Jesús Pallais or Azarías H. Pallais (November 3, 1884 – September 6, 1954) is regarded as one of Nicaragua's greatest poets. He was born in León. Pallais's father was a medical doctor and his mother was a niece of liberal state ...

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Banana Wars The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception ...

Banking in Nicaragua Banking in Nicaragua, prior to 1978, consisted of the Central Bank of Nicaragua and several domestic- and foreign-owned commercial banks. One of the first acts of the Sandinista government in 1979 was to nationalize the country’s banking system, ...

Barbara Carrera Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury) is an American actress, model and artist. She starred in the films '' The Master Gunfighter'' (1975), '' Embryo'' (1976), '' The Island of Dr. Moreau'' (1977), ''Condorman'' (1981), ''I, the Jury'' (1982) ...

Barricada (FSLN) ''Barricada'' (1979–1998) was an official publication of FSLN during the Sandinista revolutionary period. The first issue was published on 26 July 1979 and its stated goal was to promote the revolutionary project of the revolutionary regime. I ...

* Bartolomé Martínez * Battle for Río San Juan de Nicaragua *

Belén, Rivas Belén is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica ...

Ben Linder Benjamin Ernest "Ben" Linder (July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987), was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder was killed by the Contras, a loose confederation of rebel groups funded by t ...

* Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa * Big stick diplomacy *

Bilwi Puerto Cabezas (; en, Bragman's Bluff; miq, Bilwi) is a municipality and city in Nicaragua. It is the capital of Miskito nation in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The municipality and the entire region are native American lands. ...

Blanca Castellón Blanca Castellon (born 1958 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan poet. She is the author of ''Ama del espíritu'' (poetry, 1995), ''Flotaciones'' (poetry, 1998) and ''Orilla opuesta'' (poetry, 2000). She is also the winner of Instituto de Estudios Moderni ...

Bluefields Airport Bluefields International Airport is an airport serving Bluefields, a harbor city in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. It is the busiest airport in the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. A new terminal was opened recently and ...

Bluefields Bluefields is the capital of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, South Caribbean Autonomous Region in Nicaragua. It was also the capital of the former Mosquito Coast, Kingdom of Mosquitia, and later the Zelaya Department, which was divid ...

Boaco (department) Boaco () is a department in Nicaragua. It was formed in 1938 out of part of Chontales Department. It covers an area of 4,177 km2 and has a population of 186,284 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Boaco. Indigenous peoples are the ' ...

Boaco Boaco () is the capital city and a municipality of the Boaco Department of Nicaragua. The municipality of Boaco has a population of 62,936 (2021 est.) and an area of 1,087 km2 (26% of the Boaco Department) while the department (state) is 4,17 ...

* Bocana de Paiwas * Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua * Bonanza Airport * Bonanza, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region * Bosawás Biosphere Reserve *

Bronzy hermit The bronzy hermit (''Glaucis aeneus'') is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. Taxonomy and systematics The bronzy hermit and the rufous-breaste ...

Bryan–Chamorro Treaty The Bryan–Chamorro Treaty was signed between Nicaragua and the United States on August 5, 1914. It gave the United States full rights over any future canal built through Nicaragua. The Wilson administration changed the treaty by adding a prov ...

Buddhism in Nicaragua Buddhism in Nicaragua has existed since the late 19th century, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly China. Although sources are not readily available, Buddhists are believed to constitute 0.1% of the total population in ...

Buenos Aires, Rivas Buenos Aires is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ( es, Lago de Nicaragua, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin ...

Buff-collared nightjar The buff-collared nightjar or Ridgway's whip-poor-will (''Antrostomus ridgwayi'') is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico.Bower ...

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Cabo Gracias a Dios Cabo Gracias a Dios is a cape located in the middle of the east coast of Central America, within what is variously called the Mosquito Coast and La Mosquitia. It is the point where the Rio Coco flows into the Caribbean, and is the border betwee ...

Camoapa Camoapa is a city and a Municipalities of Nicaragua, municipality in the Boaco (department), Boaco Departments of Nicaragua, department of Nicaragua. Camoapa city is the capital of a municipality described within the Boaco departmental area of N ...

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Captaincy General of Guatemala The Captaincy General of Guatemala ( es, Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala ( es, Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central A ...

Carazo (department) Carazo () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1,081 km2 and has a population of 198,395 (2021 estimate). The capital is Jinotepe. Geography Much of the department consists of a large plain sloping gently down towards the Pa ...

Cárdenas, Rivas Cárdenas is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua. In 2002, the municipality of Cárdenas had threatened the government in Managua with secession and becoming part of Costa Ri ...

* Caribbean Lowlands *

Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín (2 December 1884 in Masaya – 2 January 1942 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 9 June 1936 to 1 January 1937. He was a member of the Nationalist Liberal Party. Brenes was the president of the lowe ...

* Carlos Fonseca *

Carlos José Solórzano Carlos José Solórzano Gutiérrez (17 January 1860 in Managua – 30 August 1936 in San José, Costa Rica) was the President of Nicaragua between 1 January 1925 and 14 March 1926. History He headed a political coalition which was moderate C ...

Carlos Mejía Godoy Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a Nicaraguan musician (accordion), composer and singer. He was born in Somoto, Madriz. Son of Carlos Mejía Fajardo and María Elsa Godoy, his brother Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, three years younger than ...

Carne Pinchada Carne pinchada (translation: ''stabbed meat'') is a Nicaraguan dish consisting of meat (such as beef or chicken) marinated in an alcohol sauce, using beer (''Tona or Victoria''), wine, etc. It is usually served on a stick. See also * List of me ...

Carolina wren The Carolina wren (''Thryothorus ludovicianus'') is a common species of wren that is a resident in the eastern half of the United States of America, the extreme south of Ontario, Canada, and the extreme northeast of Mexico. Severe winters restr ...

Catarina, Masaya Catarina is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica ...

* Central America Hurricane of 1941 * Central American Defense Council *

Central American Parliament The Central American Parliament ( es, Parlamento Centroamericano), also known as PARLACEN, is the political institution and parliamentary body of the Central American Integration System (SICA). Its headquarters are in Guatemala City. History ...

Central American Unionist Party The Central American Unionist Party (Spanish: ''Partido Unionista Centroamericano'' - PUCA) is a center-right Nicaraguan political party. PUCA was originally established as a cultural grouping advocating 'Central Americanization' in 1904. Renamed t ...

* Cerro Arenal Natural Reserve *

Cerro Negro Cerro Negro is an active volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range in Nicaragua, about from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April 1850. It consist ...

* Chacraseca *

Chamorro (family) The Chamorro family has its origin in Spain. A branch of the family became prominent in Nicaragua in the 18th century and its influence continues to the present. Historically, the Chamorros have been closely associated with the Conservatives, bu ...

Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World War ...

Chichigalpa Chichigalpa () is a town and municipality in the Chinandega Department of Nicaragua. History Pre-Columbian It is presumed that Chichigalpa's first inhabitants arrived from the north. While their civilizations were not as advanced as those of the A ...

Chinandega (department) Chinandega () is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of 4,822 km2 and has a population of 441,897 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Chinandega. Largely agricultural, it produces rum f ...

Chinandega, Chinandega Chinandega () is a city and the departmental seat of Chinandega department in Nicaragua. It is also the administrative centre of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is Nicaragua's 2nd most important city (economy) and 6th largest c ...

Chinandega Chinandega () is a city and the departmental seat of Chinandega department in Nicaragua. It is also the administrative centre of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is Nicaragua's 2nd most important city (economy) and 6th largest c ...

Chinese Nicaraguan Chinese Nicaraguans (; es, Sino-nicaragüenses) are Nicaraguans of Chinese ancestry who immigrated to or born in Nicaragua. They are part of the Chinese diaspora. Chinese people first arrived in Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in the latter part of ...

Chocoyero Nature Reserve Chocoyero-El Brujo Natural Reserve (Spanish: ''Reserva Natural El Chocoyero-El Brujo'') is located in the municipality of Ticuantepe in the Managua department of Nicaragua. Chocoyero-El Brujo is one of 78 protected areas in Nicaragua, and at just ...

* Chontales *

Christian F. Schilt Christian Frank Schilt (March 19, 1895 – January 8, 1987) was one of the first Marine Corps aviators and a recipient of the United States highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. He received the Medal for using his biplane to evacuate ...

Christian Unity Movement Christian Unity Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento de Unidad Cristiana'' - MUC), was founded by dissidents from the Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path (CCN) in year 2000. As of 2006, MUC is part of the Sandinista National Liberation Front alliance ...

Christianne Meneses Jacobs Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born March 28, 1971) is a Nicaraguan American writer, editor, and teacher. She is the publisher of ''Iguana;'' a Spanish language magazine for children. Nicaragua (1971–1988) Christianne Meneses Jacobs was born in ...

* Chureca *

Churrasco ''Churrasco'' (, ) is the Portuguese and Spanish name for beef or grilled meat more generally. It is a prominent feature in the cuisine of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina. The related term ''churrascaria'' (or ''churrasquería'') is mostly under ...

* Cinco Pinos * Ciudad Antigua *

Ciudad Darío Ciudad Darío () is a town and a municipality in the Matagalpa department of Nicaragua. It is the birthplace of poet Rubén Darío and the legendary guerilla leader Edén Pastora. Previously known as ''Metapa'' and ''Chocoyos'', Ciudad Darío i ...

Ciudad Sandino Ciudad Sandino is a city and municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the ea ...

* Civic Association of Potosí *

Claribel Alegría Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central Am ...

Clark Memorandum The Clark Memorandum on the Monroe Doctrine or Clark Memorandum, written on December 17, 1928 by Calvin Coolidge's undersecretary of state J. Reuben Clark, concerned the United States' use of military force to intervene in Latin American nations. ...

Clodomiro Picado Twight Clodomiro Picado Twight (April 17, 1887 - May 16, 1944), also known as "Clorito Picado", was a Costa Rican scientist who was internationally recognized for his pioneering research on snake venom and the development of various antivenins. His wor ...

* Coast Alliance * Coast People's Party *

Coat of arms of Nicaragua The Nicaraguan coat of arms was first adopted on August 21, 1823 as the coat of arms of Central America, but underwent several changes during the course of history, until the last version (''as of 1999'') was introduced in 1971. Meaning The t ...

Coco River River Wangki in Miskitu or Río Coco, in Spanish, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River, is a river located on the border of northern Nicaragua and southern Honduras. It is the longest river that runs entirely within the Ce ...

Colegio Centro América The Colegio Centro América is a private Catholic school located in Managua, Nicaragua. Founded by the Jesuits in the city of Granada in 1916, the school serves as an elementary, middle, and high school. The school quickly became the preferred ...

* Colombia-Nicaragua relations *

Comalapa, Chontales Comalapa is a municipality in the Chontales Department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica ...

* Comedor Escolar Project * Communications in Nicaragua *

Communist Party of Nicaragua The Communist Party of Nicaragua ( es, Partido Comunista de Nicaragua, abbr. PCdeN or PCN) is a communist party in Nicaragua. Founded as the Socialist Workers' Party () in 1967, the core founding members were Juan Lorio, Augusto Lorío, Elí Alta ...

Concepción (volcano) Concepción is one of two volcanoes (along with Maderas) that form the island of Ometepe, which is situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America. Concepción is an active stratovolcano that forms the northwest part of the Isla de Om ...

Condega Condega () is a Municipalities of Nicaragua, municipality in the Estelí Department, Estelí department of Nicaragua. It was officially incorporated on June 9, 1962. Condega is situated on the Pan-American Highway (Route One) at a distance of 185 ...

Confederation of Labour Unification A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a union of sovereign groups or states united for purposes of common action. Usually created by a treaty, confederations of states tend to be established for dealing with critical issu ...

* Conservative Alliance *

Conservative Party of Nicaragua The Conservative Party () is a conservative political party in Nicaragua. Its slogan is “Dios, Orden, Justicia” (), often depicted on the three sides of a triangle. History The party is the oldest currently existing in Nicaragua. It was fo ...

Constitutionalist Liberal Party The Constitutionalist Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC) is a political party in Nicaragua. At the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, Nicaraguan general election of 5 November 2006, the party won 25 of 92 seats in the N ...

Contras The Contras were the various U.S.-backed and funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which came to power in 1979 fol ...

* Cordillera Los Maribios *

Corinto, Nicaragua Corinto is a town, with a population of 18,552 (2021 estimate), on the northwest Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the province of Chinandega. The municipality was founded in 1863. History Early years The town of Corinto was founded in 1849. It first ...

Corn Island Airport Corn Island International Airport is a civil-military public International Airport that serves Great Corn Island on the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua and located in the Island's Downtown area known locally as ''Brig Bay,'' ...

Corn Islands The Corn Islands are two islands about east of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, constituting one of 12 municipalities of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The official name of the municipality is ''Corn Island'' (the English name is ...

* Cosiguina * Costeño Democratic Alliance *

Cuisine of Nicaragua Nicaraguan cuisine includes a mixture of indigenous Native American cuisine, Spanish cuisine, and Creole cuisine. Despite the blending and incorporation of pre-Columbian and Spanish-influenced cuisine, traditional cuisine differs on the Pacifi ...

Culture of Nicaragua Culture and language Music and religious icons find their roots in Iberian culture and Amerindian sounds and flavors. The west of Nicaragua was colonized by Spain and has a similar culture to other Spanish-speaking American countries. The east ...

Cupressus lusitanica ''Cupressus lusitanica'', the Mexican cedar or cedar-of-Goa, is a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras). It has also been introduced to Belize, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, growing at altitu ...

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Dance in Nicaragua This is a compilation of traditional dances from Nicaragua. El Güegüense El Güegüense (also known as Macho Ratón) is a satirical drama and was the first literary work of post-Colombian Nicaragua. It is regarded as one of Latin America's m ...

Daniel Ortega José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguans, Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as coordinator of the ...

* David Green (baseball player) *

Democratic Conservative Party The Democratic Conservative Party (Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata'', PCD) is a Nicaraguan political party with a traditional conservative ideology. The party was formed in 1979. Clemente Guido participated as PCD's presidential candidate ...

Democratic Party (Nicaragua) The Democratic Party ( es, Partido Democrático, PD), renamed in 1893 as the Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal, PL), was a Nicaraguan political party in the 19th century. The power base of the liberal Democratic Party was in the city of León; ...

Democratic Party of National Confidence The Democratic Party of National Confidence (Spanish: ''Partido Demócrata de Confianza Nacional'' - PDCN) was a Nicaraguan political party founded by Agustín Jarquín and Adán Fletes after a split from Social Christian Party (PSC) in 1986. The ...

Democratic Revolutionary Alliance The Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ( es, Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática, links=no or ''ARDE'') were the Southern Front guerrillas in Nicaragua that fought against the Marxist elements of the original Sandinista Revolution in 1979. Despite ...

* Demographics of Nicaragua *

Dennis Martínez José Dennis Martínez Ortiz (born May 14, 1955), nicknamed "El Presidente" (The President), is a Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher. Martínez played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Cleveland India ...

Dennis Martínez National Stadium Estadio Nacional Soberanía ( es, Estadio Nacional Soberanía, links=no) is located in Managua, Nicaragua. It has a capacity of 15,000 and it was named after former MLB player Dennis Martínez. The original stadium was built in 1948 and is Nicara ...

Departments of Nicaragua __NOTOC__Nicaragua is a unitary republic, divided for administrative purposes into fifteen departments (Spanish: ) and two autonomous regions (Spanish: ): Autonomous regions In 1987, the new constitution established the Charter of Autonomy ( ...

* Deportivo Bluefields * Deportivo Jalapa (Nicaragua) *

Deportivo Masatepe Deportivo Masatepe is a Nicaraguan football team. History Based in Masatepe, they finally opened their own stadium in summer 2008 after having staged home games in the Estadio Olímpico de San Marcos and Estadio Cacique Diriangén Estadio ...

Deportivo Walter Ferretti Club Deportivo Walter Ferretti is a Nicaraguan football team who play in the Nicaraguan Premier Division. They are based in Managua ) , settlement_type = Capital city , motto = , image_map ...

Desembocadura de la Cruz de Río Grande Karawala is a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to th ...

Devern Hansack Devern Brandon Hansack (born February 5, 1978) is a former Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher who pitched for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed. Professional career Hansack, born in Pearl Lagoon, ...

* Diego Manuel Chamorro Bolaños * Dimension Costena * Dipilto * Diria *

Diriamba Diriamba is a city and a municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua, with a population of 64,757 (2020 estimate). It is located 41 km south of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Geography The city's elevation (just above 500 mete ...

Diriangén FC Diriangén FC is a Nicaraguan professional association football, football club based in Diriamba which competes in Primera División de Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Premier Division (Primera Division). It is one of the oldest clubs in not only Nicaragua ...

* Diriangén * Diriomo *

DJ Craze DJ Craze (born Arist Delgado; November 19, 1977), is a Nicaraguan American DJ and record producer who plays hip hop, Miami bass, trap, breaks, dubstep, drum and bass, and practices turntablism. He was, until 2020, the only solo DJ in history ...

Dollar Diplomacy Dollar diplomacy of the United States, particularly during the presidency of William Howard Taft (1909–1913) was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and ...

Dolores, Carazo Dolores is a municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. Located between Diriamba to the west and Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. It borders with Managua, Masaya, Granada, and ...

Donald Vega Donald Vega is a Nicaraguan-born American jazz pianist and music composer. Early life Vega was born in Masaya, Nicaragua, a town well known for its handicrafts. He was born with a severe cleft palate, for which he has had many surgeries to cor ...

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Ecocanal The Nicaraguan Ecocanal was a proposed project in Nicaragua to build a shallow-draft waterway connecting the inland Lake Nicaragua with the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River in the south of the country. The main aim of the waterway was to prov ...

Ecologist Green Party of Nicaragua The Ecologist Green Party of Nicaragua (in Spanish: ''Partido Verde Ecologista de Nicaragua'', PVEN) is a political party in Nicaragua. It was founded in Managua on November 23, 2003. The president of the organisation is Edward Martín Salazar ...

Economic history of Nicaragua Nicaragua's economic history has shifted from concentration in gold, beef, and coffee to a mixed economy under the Sandinista government to an International Monetary Fund policy attempt in 1990. Pre-Columbian Nicaragua had a well-developed agrari ...

Economy of Nicaragua The economy of Nicaragua is focused primarily on the agricultural sector. Nicaragua itself is the least developed country in Central America, and the second poorest in the Americas by nominal GDP. In recent years, under the administrations of ...

Edén Pastora Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez (November 15, 1936 or January 22, 1937 – June 16, 2020) was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. In ...

Edgar Chamorro Édgar Chamorro Coronel (born 23 July 1931) is an ousted leader of the Nicaraguan rebel Contras who later became a critic of the rebels and their Central Intelligence Agency sponsors, even cooperating with the Sandinista government in their World ...

Edmundo Jarquín Edmundo Jarquín (born in Ocotal, September 1946) is a Nicaraguan politician. He was the vice presidential running-mate of Herty Lewites, who was the presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the 2006 elections unti ...

Eduardo Montealegre Eduardo Montealegre Rivas (born 9 May 1955) is a Nicaraguan politician. He ran for president in the 2006 general election as the candidate of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN-PC) a split-off of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) in allia ...

Education in Nicaragua Education in Nicaragua is free for all Nicaraguans. Elementary education is free and compulsory although this is not strictly enforced. Many children are not able to attend if their families need to have them work. Communities on the Atlantic Coast ...

El Almendro El Almendro (meaning "The Almond Tree") is a rural municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. Tradition states that El Almendro was founded in 1892, when Nery López, Perfecto Romero Acosta, Francisco González, and others, sear ...

* El Arenal Natural Reserve *

El Ayote El Ayote is a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to t ...

El Castillo (municipality) El Castillo is a municipality located on the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. The settlement of what would eventually become the municipality of El Castillo began in 1673, when construction of the ''For ...

El Castillo (village) El Castillo is a village of about 1,500 people situated on the southern bank of the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in southern Nicaragua. It is one of 27 comarcas of the municipality of El Castillo, a subdivision of the Río San Juan Department ...

El Coral El Coral is a municipality in the southeastern portion of Chontales Department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean ...

El Crucero El Crucero () is a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua. It is located on the summit and slopes of the ''Sierras de Managua'', east of Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. I ...

El Cuá El Cuá is a municipality in the Jinotega department of Nicaragua. Formerly part of the municipality of El Cuá-Bocay, it became a separate municipality in 2002. Its population rose from 43,305 in 2005 to 56,897 in 2012. The area around El Cuá ...

* El Güegüense * El Jicaral * El Jícaro, Nueva Segovia *

El Nuevo Diario ''El Nuevo Diario'' was a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua. History In 1980, the owner of ''La Prensa'' fired the editor Xavier Chamorro Cardenal. Eighty percent of the papers employees left with Chamorro Cardena due to ...

El Rama Rama is a municipality and a city in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua.
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El Realejo El Realejo is a municipality in the Chinandega department of Nicaragua. History The town of El Realejo was constructed in 1532, during the first years of Spanish colonization. During this period it served as Nicaragua's principal port, and rema ...

* El Rosario, Carazo *

El Sauce, León El Sauce () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. Located in the foothills of the Segovia Mountains, the municipality has a population of 31,664 and covers an area of 693 km2. El Sauce is bordered to the north ...

El Tortugero El Tortuguero () is a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. It is located at about 530 km from Managua ) , settlement_type = Capital city , motto = , imag ...

El Viejo El Viejo is a city and a municipality in the Chinandega department of Nicaragua. El Viejo is a small city near the city of Chinandega, noted for its particular gastronomic specialties, which include ''rosquillas'' ( a type of doughnut), ''cajet ...

Elections in Nicaragua Elections in Nicaragua gives information on elections and election results in Nicaragua. The Republic of Nicaragua elects on national level a head of state – the president – and a unicameral legislature. The President of Nicaragua an ...

Emiliano Chamorro Vargas Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (11 May 1871 – 26 February 1966) was a Nicaraguan military figure and politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1917 to 1 January 1921, and again as interim president from 14 March to 11 November 192 ...

Emiliano Madriz Emiliano Madriz (c. 1800 – 24 January 1845) was a liberal Nicaraguan lawyer and politician who served as acting Supreme Director of Nicaragua from 26 September to 26 December 1844, and as the interim Supreme Director in León until 24 January ...

Emilio Alvarez Lejarza Emilio may refer to: * Emilio Navaira, a Mexican-American singer often called "Emilio" * Emilio Piazza Memorial School, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State * Emilio (given name) * ''Emilio'' (film), a 2008 film by Kim Jorgensen See also * Emílio (dis ...

* Emilio Alvarez Montalván * Enlace Nicaragua (Canal 21) * Enrique Bermúdez *

Enrique Bolaños Enrique José Bolaños Geyer (; 13 May 1928 – 14 June 2021) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 10 January 2002 to 10 January 2007. From 1997 to 2002, Bolaños served as vice president under Arnoldo Alem� ...

* Enrique Gottel * Eric Volz *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

Ernesto Leal Ernesto José Leal Sanchez (July 28, 1945 – December 26, 2005) was a Nicaraguan politician. Early life Leal was born in Nicaragua's capital Managua. He became a civil engineer by profession, but was interested in politics since his youth. He g ...

Erwin Krüger Erwin Krüger Urroz (November 2, 1915 in León, Nicaragua – July 28, 1973 in Managua) was a Nicaraguan folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. T ...

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Estadio Cacique Diriangén Estadio Cacique Diriangén is a multi-purpose stadium in Diriamba, Nicaragua. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer), football matches and is the home stadium to Diriangén FC. The stadium holds 7,500 people. In April 2012, it was a ...

Estadio Independencia Estadio Independencia is a multi-use stadium in Estelí, Nicaragua. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium to Real Estelí. The stadium holds 5,000 people, and has been renovated and equipped with synthetic turf i ...

* Estadio Olímpico de San Marcos * Estelí (department) *

Estelí Estelí (), officially Villa de San Antonio de Pavia de Estelí is a city and municipality within the Estelí department. It is the 3rd largest city in Nicaragua due to the high urbanization of its municipality, at 83%, with an urban population of ...

Estero Padre Ramos Natural Reserve The Padre Ramos Estuary Natural Reserve (Spanish: ''Reserva Natural Estero Padre Ramos'') is located on the northwest Pacific coast of Nicaragua, in the municipality El Viejo in the department of Chinandega. It is one of 78 protected areas of Ni ...

* ESTV (Canal 11) * Evaristo Carazo *

Evaristo Rocha Evaristo Rocha was a conservative Nicaraguan politician who served as acting Supreme Director of Nicaragua between 5 April and 30 June 1839. The first Nicaraguan Government was essentially a transitional government intended to prepare for the tra ...

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FC San Marcos FC San Marcos is a Nicaraguan football team playing in the Nicaraguan Premier Division. It is based in San Marcos. Their home stadium is Estadio Leonardo G. Jara. History San Marcos won promotion back to the Nicaraguan Premier Division in ...

* Federación Nacional de Muchachas Guías de Nicaragua Flag of Nicaragua

Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol The Nicaraguan Football Federation (FENIFUT; es, Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol) is the official governing body of association football in Nicaragua. FENIFUT comprises 19 departmental and 153 municipal federations. It oversees all national ...

Federal Republic of Central America The Federal Republic of Central America ( es, República Federal de Centroamérica), originally named the United Provinces of Central America ( es, Provincias Unidas del Centro de América), and sometimes simply called Central America, in it ...

* Feminist ideology during the Sandinista Revolution *

Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro Fernando Chamorro Rappaccioli (1933 – September 6, 1994), known as "El Negro" ("Blackie") for his dark complexion, was a longtime Nicaraguan rebel fighting both the Somoza and Sandinista regimes. Efforts to build a Contra Southern Front around hi ...

Fernando Agüero Fernando Bernabé Agüero Rocha (June 11, 1917 in Managua – September 27, 2011) was a Nicaraguan politician and the founder (1988) and leader of the Social Conservative Party. In 1967, Agüero was chosen to represent the conservative 1966 Natio ...

Fernando Chamorro Alfaro Fernando Chamorro Alfaro (1824 – 21 July 1863) was a General and member of the governing junta of Nicaragua (1860–1863). Fernando Chamorro was a firm supporter of the Conservative Party, which was dominated during his youth by his half-brother ...

Fernando Guzmán Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...

Flag of Nicaragua The flag of Nicaragua was first adopted on September 4, 1908, but not made official until August 27, 1971. It is based on, and inspired by, the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America and flag of Argentina. It is one of only three nati ...

Foreign relations of Nicaragua Nicaragua pursues an independent foreign policy. A participant of the Central American Security Commission (CSC), Nicaragua also has taken a leading role in pressing for regional demilitarization and peaceful settlement of disputes within states in ...

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. Th ...

* Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños *

Fruto Chamorro José Fruto Chamorro Pérez (20 October 1804 – 12 March 1855) was a Nicaraguan politician and military scientist who served as 10th Supreme Director of Nicaragua (April 1, 1853 – April 30, 1854) and 1st President of Nicaragua (April 30, 1854 ...

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Gabriel Traversari Gabriel Traversari (born Gabriel Augusto Traversari y Debayle on September 7, 1963) is a Nicaraguan American actor, director, writer, singer, songwriter, painter and photographer. Early life Traversari was born in Los Angeles, California, bu ...

Gallo pinto or Royal Spanish Academy y Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (2014)«gallopinto» ''Diccionario de la lengua española'' (23.ª edición). Madrid: Spain. . Consulted October 19, 2018. is a traditional dish from Central America. Con ...

Garifuna language Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan language family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside ...

Gaspar García Laviana Gaspar García Laviana (November 8, 1941 — December 11, 1978) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest who took up arms to fight as a soldier in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in 1977. Early life García Laviana was ...

Geography of Nicaragua Nicaragua (officially the Republic of Nicaragua es, República de Nicaragua ) is a country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras. Nicaragua is the largest country i ...

Gil González Dávila Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila (b. 1480 – 21 April 1526) was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to explore present-day Nicaragua. Early career González Dávila first appears in historical records in 1508, when he ...

Gioconda Belli Gioconda Belli (born December 9, 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguans, Nicaraguan author, novelist and poet. Early life Gioconda Belli grew up in a wealthy family in Managua. Her father is Humberto Belli Zapata and her brother is Humbe ...

Good Neighbor policy The Good Neighbor policy ( ) was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. Although the policy was implemented by the Roosevelt administration, President Woodrow Wilson had prev ...

Granada (department) Granada () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1040 km2 and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities. Municipalities # Diria # Diriomo # Gra ...

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Granada, Nicaragua Granada () is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of 104,980 (2021), it is Nicaragua's ninth most populous city. Granada is historically one of Nicaragua's most important cities, econ ...

Gray-rumped swift The grey-rumped swift or gray-rumped swift (''Chaetura cinereiventris'') is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife Internation ...

Great Liberal Union The Great Liberal Union ( es, Gran Unión Liberal (GUL) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party (never legally registered) formed by President Bolaños and other dissidents from the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) in 2004. After signing ...

Greater pewee The greater pewee (''Contopus pertinax'') is a passerine and is in the tyrant flycatcher group. This species' range is further north than the other Mexican species. This bird was formerly known as Coues' flycatcher. Description This species is ...

Greytown, Nicaragua San Juan de Nicaragua, formerly known as San Juan del Norte or Greytown, is a town and municipality in the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. History San Juan del Norte was founded by the Spanish and was a small fort and customs station. ...

* Grupo Armado *

Güirila A güirila is a sweet type of tortilla made from young white maize. They are usually eaten with ''crema'' (sweet or sour cream) and '' cuajada'', a type of salty Nicaraguan crumbled white cheese. The güirilas are made from shelling sweet young m ...

Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa (September 11, 1908, Leon, Nicaragua – December 16, 1997 Potomac, Maryland, United States ) was the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United States from 1943 until July 19, 1979, when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle ...

Gulf of Fonseca The Gulf of Fonseca ( es, Golfo de Fonseca; ), a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. History Fonseca Bay was discovered for Europeans in 1522 by Gil González de Ávil ...

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Hammond's flycatcher Hammond's flycatcher (''Empidonax hammondii'') is a flycatcher in the family Tyrannidae. This small insectivorous bird inhabits the coniferous and mixed forests of western North America. The name of this bird commemorates William Alexander Hammon ...

Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty ( es, Tratado Hay-Bunau Varilla) was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. It was named a ...

Hay–Herrán Treaty The Hay–Herrán Treaty was a treaty signed on January 22, 1903, between United States Secretary of State John M. Hay of the United States and Tomás Herrán of Colombia. Had it been ratified, it would have allowed the United States a renewab ...

Herty Lewites Herty Lewites Rodríguez (December 24, 1939 – July 2, 2006) was a Nicaraguan politician. He was Mayor of Managua and a candidate for president in the 2006 Nicaraguan general election when he died suddenly. Early life and involvement in the N ...

History of Nicaragua Nicaragua is a nation in Central America. It is located about midway between Mexico and Colombia, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Nicaragua ranges from the Caribbean Sea on the nation's east coast, and the Pacific Oc ...

Hoffmann's two-toed sloth Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (''Choloepus hoffmanni''), also known as the northern two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from Central and South America. It is a solitary, largely nocturnal and arboreal animal, found in mature and secondary rainf ...

* Hugo Palma-Ibarra *

Humberto Ortega General Humberto Ortega Saavedra (born January 10, 1947 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan military leader, often self-called leading Latin American revolutionary strategist, and published writer. He was Minister of Defense between the victory of the ...

Hunguhungu Hunguhungu or fedu is a form of traditional swaying circular dance performed by the women of the Garifuna people of Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The music for the dance is composed of rhythmic themes performed by three drummers with al ...

Hurricane Beta Hurricane Beta was a compact and intense tropical cyclone that impacted the southwestern Caribbean in late October 2005. Beta was the twenty-fourth tropical storm, fourteenth hurricane, and seventh and final major hurricane of the record-b ...

Hurricane Cesar–Douglas Hurricane Cesar–Douglas was one of the few tropical cyclones to survive the crossover from the Atlantic to east Pacific basin, and was the last to receive two names upon doing so. Hurricane Cesar was the third named storm and second hurricane o ...

Hurricane Felix Hurricane Felix was an extremely powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which was the southernmost-landfalling Category 5 storm on record, surpassing Hurricane Edith of 1971. It was the sixth named storm, second hurricane, and second Categor ...

Hurricane Gert Hurricane Gert was a large tropical cyclone that caused extensive flooding and mudslides throughout Central America and Mexico in September 1993. The seventh named storm and third hurricane of the annual hurricane season, Gert originated as ...

Hurricane Greta–Olivia Hurricane Greta, later Hurricane Olivia, was one of fourteen named Atlantic hurricanes to cross over Central America into the eastern Pacific while remaining a tropical cyclone. The seventh named storm of the 1978 Atlantic hurricane season, Gret ...

Hurricane Irene–Olivia Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin. It originated as a tropical depression on September 11, 1971, in the tropical Atlantic. The cyclone tracked ...

Hurricane Joan–Miriam Hurricane Joan was a long lived and powerful tropical cyclone that caused death and destruction in over a dozen countries in the Caribbean and Central America. Moving on a due west course for nearly two weeks in October 1988, Hurricane Joan caus ...

Hurricane Mitch Hurricane Mitch is the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America in 1998, including approximately 7,000 in Honduras and 3,800 in Nicaragua due to cataclysmic flooding from the slow motion ...

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Independent Liberal Party (Nicaragua) The Independent Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Independiente - PLI) is a Nicaraguan political party, which separated from Somoza's Nationalist Liberal Party (PLN) in 1944 and took part in the probably fraudulent election of 1947, won by So ...

Independent Liberal Party for National Unity The Independent Liberal Party for National Unity (Partido Liberal Independiente por la Unidad Nacional) (PLIUN) is a Nicaraguan centre-right party that split from the Independent Liberal Party in 1984 as a consequence of PLI's decision to particip ...

* Indio Maíz Biological Reserve * INCAE Business School *

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Ar ...

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of ...

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of ...

country code for the Nicaragua: NIC ** ISO 3166-2:NI region codes for the Nicaragua *

Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair ( fa, ماجرای ایران-کنترا, es, Caso Irán–Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the McFarlane affair (in Iran), or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States ...

Isla de Cozumel Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatá ...

* Islam in Nicaragua * Islands of Nicaragua

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Jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus '' Panthera'' native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the largest cat species in the Americas and the th ...

Jaguarundi The jaguarundi (''Herpailurus yagouaroundi'') is a wild cat native to the Americas. Its range extends from central Argentina in the south to northern Mexico, through Central and South America east of the Andes. The jaguarundi is a medium-sized ...

Jalapa, Nueva Segovia Jalapa is a city and a municipality in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua. It is located in northern Nicaragua, close to the Honduras border. Jalapa has been Boulder, Colorado's sister city since 1983. Contra war Jalapa, which is locat ...

* Jewish Nicaraguan *

Jinotega (department) Jinotega () is a department of Nicaragua. Its departmental head is Jinotega. It is located in the north of the country, on the border with Honduras. The Department of Jinotega has a population of 483,404 (2021 estimate) and covers an area of ...

Jinotega, Jinotega Jinotega () (derived from Náhuatl: ''Xiotenko'' ‘place next to the jiñocuajo trees’) is the capital city of the Department of Jinotega in north-central Nicaragua. The city is located in a long valley surrounded by the cool climate and Da ...

Jinotega Jinotega () (derived from Náhuatl: ''Xiotenko'' ‘place next to the jiñocuajo trees’) is the capital city of the Department of Jinotega in north-central Nicaragua. The city is located in a long valley surrounded by the cool climate and Da ...

Jinotepe, Carazo Jinotepe () is a city and Municipalities of Nicaragua, municipality in the Carazo (department), Carazo Departments of Nicaragua, department of Nicaragua. It borders with Managua, Masaya, Granada, Nicaragua, Granada, and Rivas, Nicaragua, Rivas. T ...

Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. It borders with Managua, Masaya, Granada, and Rivas. Toponymy Jinotepe comes from the náhuatl "xilotl" (“tender corn”), "tepetl" (“hill”) y "-k" (“place� ...

Joaquín Cuadra Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo, (Managua, April 11, 1951) a scion of Nicaragua's elite, joined the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in late 1972. After their victory in 1979, he became army chief of staff. Biography Cuadra studied at ...

Joaquín Zavala Joaquín Zavala Solís (30 November 1835 in Managua – 30 December 1906 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1879 to 1 March 1883 and from 16 July to 15 September 1893. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua. ...

John Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Sha ...

Jorge Salazar Jorge Salazar Argüello (1939 – 1980), a Nicaraguan coffee grower and popular leader of UPANIC (Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua - '), seemed poised to become the leader of the opposition to the Sandinista government, until his death a ...

José Areas José Octavio "Chepito" Areas Dávila (born 25 July 1946) is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969–1977 and 1987–1989. In 1998, he was inducted into the Roc ...

José Coronel Urtecho José Coronel Urtecho (28 February 1906 – 19 March 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth centu ...

José Dolores Estrada (president) José Dolores Estrada Vado (1792–1869) is a Nicaraguan national hero famed for defeating a detachment of William Walker's filibuster army at Hacienda San Jacinto in 1856. Estrada was born in Nandaime on March 16, 1792, the son of Timoteo ...

José Dolores Estrada José Dolores Estrada Vado (1792–1869) is a Nicaraguan national hero famed for defeating a detachment of William Walker's filibuster army at Hacienda San Jacinto in 1856. Estrada was born in Nandaime on March 16, 1792, the son of Timoteo E ...

José Francisco Cardenal José Francisco Cardenal (born 1940) was a Nicaraguan businessman who became known as one of the most pugnacious opponents of the Somoza and then the Sandinista regimes of Nicaragua, and played an important role in the early days of the Contra r ...

José León Sandoval José León Sandoval de la Cerda (1789 – 1854) was a Nicaraguan politician, member of the short lived centrist Republican Party, who served as 4th Supreme Director of Nicaragua from 4 April 1845 to 12 March 1847. A mestizo descendant of the co ...

José Madriz José Madriz Rodríguez (21 July 1867 – 14 May 1911) was the President of Nicaragua from 21 December 1909 to 20 August 1910. Madriz was born on 21 July 1867, in León, Nicaragua. After President José Santos Zelaya resigned on December 21, 19 ...

José María Estrada José María Estrada Reyes (1802 – 13 August 1856 in Ocotal) was the President of Nicaragua after Fruto Chamorro’s death during the Filibuster War, serving from 12 March to 23 October 1855. Estrada was born in 1802 in the Conservative capit ...

* José María Moncada Tapia *

José Rizo Castellón José Rizo Castellón (27 September 1944 – 23 April 2019) was a Nicaraguan politician, affiliated with the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC). Rizo was a lawyer trained at the Universidad Centroamericana of Managua in Nicaragua; he also stud ...

José Santos Zelaya José Santos Zelaya López (1 November 1853 in Managua – 17 May 1919 in New York City) was the President of Nicaragua from 25 July 1893 to 21 December 1909. Early life He was a son of José María Zelaya Irigoyen, who was originally from ...

José Vicente Cuadra José Vicente De la Cuadra y Ruy Lugo (25 July 1812, in Granada, Nicaragua – 10 December 1894) served as President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1871 to 1 March 1875 during that country's late-19th-century reconstruction. As a member of the Conservat ...

* Joseph A. Harrison * Joseph Adams *

Joseph Henry Pendleton Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (June 2, 1860 – February 4, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps general for whom Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is named. Pendleton served in the Marine Corps for over 40 years. Biography Joseph Hen ...

Juan Bautista Sacasa Juan Bautista Sacasa (21 December 1874 in León, Nicaragua – 17 April 1946 in Los Angeles, California) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the form ...

Juan José Estrada Juan José Estrada Morales (1 January 1872 in Managua – 11 July 1967 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 29 August 1910 to 9 May 1911. Biography Juan José Estrada Morales was a Nicaraguan military and political figure who acted ...

Juigalpa, Chontales Juigalpa () is the municipal seat of Juigalpa Municipality and the capital city of the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is located within the municipality of Juigalpa, approximately 140 km east of Managua on Carretera Rama, in the cent ...

Juigalpa Juigalpa () is the municipal seat of Juigalpa Municipality and the capital city of the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is located within the municipality of Juigalpa, approximately 140 km east of Managua on Carretera Rama, in the cent ...

Julio Valle Castillo Julio Valle Castillo (born August 10, 1952), was born in Masaya, Nicaragua. He is a Poet, Painting, painter, and a literary critic, and art critic. Early life and career Valle-Castillo studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the National Aut ...

Junta of National Reconstruction The Junta of National Reconstruction (''Junta de Gobierno de Reconstrucción Nacional'') was the provisional government of Nicaragua from the fall of the Somoza dictatorship in July 1979 until January 1985, with the election of Sandinista Nation ...

Justo Abaunza Justo Abaunza y Muñoz de Avilés (1778 – 1872) was a Costa Rican-born legitimist Nicaraguan lawyer and politician who served as acting Supreme Director of Nicaragua from 1 April to 5 May 1851, and as provisional Supreme Director appointed by ...

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Kukra Hill Kukra Hill is a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to ...

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La Concordia, Jinotega La Concordia () is a municipality in the Jinotega department of Nicaragua. Twin towns La Concordia is twinned with: * Canfranc Canfranc () is a municipality in the Aragón Valley of north-eastern Spain consisting of two villages, the origi ...

* La Conquista * La Costeña *

La Cruz de Río Grande La Cruz de Río Grande is a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the C ...

La Libertad, Chontales La Libertad () is a municipality in the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is the birthplace of President Daniel Ortega, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, and Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an of ...

La Paz Centro La Paz Centro () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. The town is located along the highway between Managua and León. The small municipality is known for its small shops and pottery. La Paz Centro is the home of ...

* La Paz de Carazo *

La Prensa (Managua) ''La Prensa'' is a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua. Its current daily circulation is placed at 42,000. Founded in 1926, in 1932 it was bought by Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya, who had become editor-in-chief. He promot ...

La Trinidad, Estelí La Trinidad () is a town and a municipality in the Estelí department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the e ...

Laguna de Perlas Pearl Lagoon is a municipality that is often time called just Lagoon and was historically known as English Bank. It is located in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. It is the most important town of the largest coastal lagoon ...

* Lake Apanás *

Lake Managua Lake Managua ( es, Lago de Managua, ), also known as Lake Xolotlán (), is a lake in Nicaragua. At 1,042 km², it is approximately long and wide. Similarly to the name of Lake Nicaragua, its other name comes from the Nahuatl language, possi ...

Languages of Nicaragua The official language of Nicaragua is Spanish; however, Nicaraguans on the Caribbean coast speak indigenous languages and also English. The communities located on the Caribbean coast also have access to education in their native languages. Additio ...

Larreynaga Larreynaga () is the second largest municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. The municipality seat is the town of Malpaisillo. The estimated population of the municipality is 33,028 but it is steadily growing at a rate of 2.22% yearly. ...

* Las Lajas (volcano) * Las Peñitas, Nicaragua *

Las Pilas Las Pilas (or El Hoyo) is a complex volcano located in the western part of Nicaragua. Part of a 30-km-long volcanic massif, Las Pilas has a series of well-preserved flank vents surrounding a central cone. Las Pilas last erupted in the 1950s and be ...

Las Sabanas Las Sabanas is a municipality in the Madriz department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa ...

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

Laureano Pineda José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (4 July 1802 – 17 September 1853) was a Nicaraguan lawyer and politician who, as a Senator in the Legislative Assembly and member of the Democratic Party, was appointed to serve as 7th and later 8th Supreme Director ...

Legitimist Party (Nicaragua) The Legitimist Party ( es, Partido Legitimista, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several year ...

* Legitimists (Nicaragua) *

León (department) Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

León, Nicaragua León () is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de León, it is the capital and largest city of León Department. , the municipality of León has an estimated population of 2 ...

Leonardo Argüello Barreto Leonardo Argüello Barreto (29 August 1875 – 15 December 1947) was a Nicaraguan politician who, after several attempts, became the President of Nicaragua in 1947. He served from 1 May to 27 May 1947. His older brother was the noted poet Santia ...

LGBT rights in Nicaragua Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Nicaragua face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Nicaragua. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is ...

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Liberal-Conservative Junta The Liberal-Conservative Junta ( es, Triunvirato de Gobierno, lit=Government Triumvirate) officially ruled Nicaragua between 1972 and 1974, though effective power was in the hands of strongman Anastasio Somoza. History Anastasio Somoza Debayle' ...

Liberalism in Nicaragua This article gives an overview of liberalism in Nicaragua. It is limited to liberal parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. For inclusion in this scheme it is not necessary so that parties lab ...

* Lincoln International Academy * Linux Tour * Lists related to Nicaragua: ** Diplomatic missions of Nicaragua **

List of airports in Nicaragua This is a list of airports in Nicaragua, sorted by location. __TOC__ List See also * * * Transport in Nicaragua * List of airports by ICAO code: M#MN - Nicaragua * Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America ...

** List of banks in Nicaragua **

List of birds of Nicaragua This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nicaragua. The avifauna of Nicaragua included a total of 786 species as of July 2022, according to ''Bird Checklists of the World''. Of them, 142 are rare or accidental and five have been introduc ...

List of books and films about Nicaragua This is a list of books and films about Nicaragua. Books Non-fiction * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fiction * * * * Films *''Walker'' A film about William Walker, a 19th-century soldier of fo ...

** List of cinemas in Nicaragua **

List of cities in Nicaragua The 15 departments and 2 autonomous regions of Nicaragua are divided into 153 municipalities. The formation and dissolution of municipalities is governed by the Law of Municipalities (in Spanish: ''Ley No.40 - Ley de Municipalidades''), drafted an ...

List of diplomatic missions in Nicaragua This is a list of diplomatic missions in Nicaragua. The capital, Managua, hosts 30 embassies. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited from other regional capitals. Its role as a promoter of Third World causes during the Cold War led ...

List of Films and Books about Nicaragua This is a list of books and films about Nicaragua. Books Non-fiction * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fiction * * * * Films *''Walker'' A film about William Walker, a 19th-century soldier of fo ...

List of hospitals in Nicaragua This is a list of hospitals in Nicaragua. *Bautista Hospital *Bertha Calderón (De la Mujer) Hospital *Carlos Marx (Alemán-Nicaragüense) Hospital *Alejandro Davila Bolaños Hospital (Military) *Japanese-Nicaraguan Hospital ''(Hospital Japonés-N ...

** List of islands of Nicaragua ** List of mammals in Nicaragua ** List of museums in Nicaragua ** List of Nicaraguan Americans **

List of Nicaraguan writers A list of Nicaraguan writers, including novelists, poets, authors, essayists, journalists, critics, and narrators among others. List * Claribel Alegría (1924–2018), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006 ...

** List of Nicaraguans ** List of Nicaragua-related topics **

List of players from Nicaragua in Major League Baseball This is an alphabetical list of 15 baseball players from Nicaragua who appeared in Major League Baseball between 1976 and 2019. Players ReferencesPlayers born in Nicaragua - Baseball-Reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Major League Baseball ...

List of political parties in Nicaragua This article lists political parties in Nicaragua. Political culture Historically, Nicaragua had a two-party system, with varying two dominant political parties. The 2006 general election could have marked the end of the bipartite scheme, as ...

List of radio stations in Nicaragua Radio Stereo Alegre Jinotepe 88.3 Radio La Buena Onda Jinotepe 91.1 Radio Eco Stereo Jinotepe 92.9 Nuevo Tiempo Diriamba 98.9 Radio Stereo Romance Jinotepe 105.3 Radio Stereo Sur Jinotepe 106.9 Radio La Voz de Teresa Santa Teresa ...

List of rivers of Nicaragua The majority of rivers in Nicaragua are located on the Caribbean coast and empty out into the Caribbean Sea. The San Juan River (Nicaragua), Río San Juan is one of the most important rivers in Nicaragua, it borders Costa Rica and connects the Ca ...

** List of schools in Nicaragua **

List of shopping malls in Nicaragua The 1972 Managua earthquake virtually destroyed all of the existing supermarkets, shops and department stores in the city of Managua. New shopping centers and malls were rebuilt on other locations, which formed the bases for Managua's dispersed st ...

List of volcanoes in Nicaragua This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Nicaragua. Volcanoes See also * Central America Volcanic Arc * List of volcanoes in Costa Rica * List of volcanoes in El Salvador * List of volcanoes in Guatemala * List of volcanoes i ...

** Outline of Nicaragua **

Universities in Nicaragua The oldest institution of higher education in Nicaragua is the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, which was founded in León in 1812, during the Spanish colonial period. In Nicaragua, there are ten core public and private non-profit un ...

* Literature of Nicaragua *

Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez (13 November 1900 – 15 April 1981) was a Nicaraguan politician and a close associate of Somoza family. Guerrero was the president of the upper chamber of National Congress of Nicaragua 1949–1950, 1953–1954, 1956- ...

Los Doce ''El Grupo de los Doce'', or Group of Twelve, were a dozen members of the Nicaraguan establishment whose support for the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) against President Anastasio Somoza Debayle played a pivotal role in the acceptance ...

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Luis Somoza Debayle Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle (18 November 1922 – 13 April 1967) was the 26th President of Nicaragua from 21 September 1956 to 1 May 1963. Somoza Debayle was born in León. At the age of 14, he and his younger brother Anastasio attended Sa ...

Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women The Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women ( es, italic=no, Asociación de Mujeres Nicaragüenes Luisa Amanda Espinoza, AMNLAE) was initially established in 1977 under the name Association of Women Concerned about National Crisis (, ...

Lya Barrioz Lya may refer to: * LYA (airport), an airport serves Luoyang, China * Lya (DC Comics), a fictional character * Lya (given name), a feminine given name * Lyman-alpha line The Lyman-alpha line, typically denoted by Ly-α, is a spectral line of hydr ...

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Macuá The Macuá is a cocktail made with white rum and fruit juices, usually lemon and guava juice. The Macuá is noted as the national drink of Nicaragua. The drink is named after '' pajaro macuá'', a tropical bird native to the country. History T ...

* Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia *

Maderas With a height of , Maderas is the smaller of the two which make up the island of Ometepe, situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America. Unlike Concepción, the other volcano on the island, Maderas has not been active in historical ti ...

Madriz Department Madriz () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1,708 km2 and has a population of 176,920 (2021 estimate). The capital is Somoto. Madriz was created from Nueva Segovia department in August 1936, and named after President Jos� ...

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Managua Department Managua () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 3,465 km2 and has a population of 1,559,774 (2021 estimate), making it the country's most populated department. The capital is the city of Managua, which is also the capital of Ni ...

Managua International Airport Augusto C. Sandino International Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto C. Sandino) or ACS is the main joint civil-military public international airport in Managua, Nicaragua. It is named after Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto ...

* Manuel Fernando Zurita * Manuel Pérez *'' Mar Caribe'' *

Marvin Benard Marvin Larry Benard (born January 20, 1970) is a Nicaraguan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants. Personal life Benard moved to Los Angeles with his mother and father wh ...

Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement Popular Action Movement - Marxist–Leninist () is a Hoxhaist communist party in Nicaragua that surged out of a split from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the early 1970s. Since 1985 it is officially named the Marxist–Lenini ...

Masatepe Masatepe () Masatepe is one of the nine municipalities of the Department of Masaya in Nicaragua. It is located on the plateau of the villages 50 kilometers from Managua ) , settlement_type = Capital city , motto ...

* Masaya Department *

Masaya Volcano Masaya ( es, Volcán Masaya) is a caldera located in Masaya, Nicaragua, 20 km south of the capital Managua. It is Nicaragua's first and largest national park, and one of 78 protected areas of Nicaragua. The complex volcano is composed of a ...

Masaya Masaya () is the capital city of Masaya Department in Nicaragua. It is situated approximately 14 km west of Granada and 31 km southeast of Managua. It is located just east of the Masaya Volcano, an active volcano from which the cit ...

Mass media in Nicaragua The mass media in Nicaragua consist of several different types of communications media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, and Internet-based Web sites. Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Nicaragua. There ...

Matagalpa Department Matagalpa () is a department in central Nicaragua. It covers an area of 6,804 km2 and has a population of 600,057 (2021 est). The capital is the city of Matagalpa with a population of about 111,000. Matagalpa is the second largest region o ...

Matagalpa language Matagalpa is an extinct Misumalpan language formerly spoken in the central highlands of Nicaragua. The language became extinct in the 19th century, and only few short wordlists remain. It was closely related to Cacaopera language, Cacaopera. The e ...

Matagalpa Matagalpa () is a city in Nicaragua which is the capital of the department of Matagalpa. The city has a population of 111,258 (2021 estimate),Mateare Mateare is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua. The municipality covers an area of 297 km2 and has an estimated population of 62,027. History Mateare, founded in 1898, is as old as the first cities founded by t ...

Matiguás Matiguás () is a town and a Municipalities of Nicaragua, municipality in the Matagalpa (department), Matagalpa Departments of Nicaragua, department of Nicaragua. It is also the twin city of Saarlouis in Germany. References

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Mayan cichlid ''Mayaheros urophthalmus'', also known as the Mayan cichlid or Mexican mojarra is a species of cichlid. Taxonomy Previously, this species was a member of the genus ''Cichlasoma'' and the subgeneric section ''Nandopsis''. However, the genus ''Cic ...

Mercedes Tenorio Mercedes Tenorio (born November 11, 1956, Rivas), a Nicaraguan nurse, was Edén Pastora's running mate in the 2006 Nicaraguan general election for the Alternative for Change Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * ...

Merritt A. Edson Major General Merritt Austin Edson, Sr. (April 25, 1897 – August 14, 1955), known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received were the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, ...

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Michael Cordúa Michael Cordúa (born 1961) is a Nicaraguan-born American restaurateur, entrepreneur, former owner of Cordúa Restaurants, and award-winning self-taught chef. Cordúa is the former owner of six restaurants in the Houston, Texas area. He was the ...

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (February 5, 1933 – June 8, 2017) was an American-born Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September ...

Miguel Larreynaga Miguel Jerónimo Larreinaga y Silva (April 29, 1771 – April 28, 1847) was a Nicaraguan philosopher, humanist, lawyer and poet. He was one of the people who traveled to Spain in 1818 to ask for independence of the Central American Republic ...

Miguel Obando y Bravo Miguel Obando y Bravo, SDB (2 February 1926 – 3 June 2018) was a Nicaraguan prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Archbishop of Managua from 1970 to 2005. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal in 1985. Life Obando was born in La Li ...

Military of Nicaragua The Nicaraguan Armed Forces are the military forces of Nicaragua. There are three branches: the Navy, the Army, and Air Force. History National Guard, 1925–1979 The long years of strife between the liberal and conservative political faction ...

Miskito Miskito may refer to: * Miskito people, ethnic group in Honduras and Nicaragua ** Miskito Sambu, branch of Miskito people with African admixture ** Tawira Miskito, branch of Miskito people of largely indigenous origin * Miskito language, original ...

Miskito Cays The Miskito Cays (Spanish: Cayos Miskitos) are an archipelago with an area of 27 km2 located off shore in the northeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, part of the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The Miskito Cays are composed of 7 ...

Miskito language Miskito ( in the Miskito language) is a Misumalpan language spoken by the Miskito people in northeastern Nicaragua, especially in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and in eastern Honduras. With 700,000 speakers, Miskito is the most w ...

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Mombacho Mombacho is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, near the city of Granada. It is high. The Mombacho Volcano Nature Reserve is one of 78 protected areas of Nicaragua. Mombacho’s last eruption occurred in 1570. There is no historical knowledge of earl ...

Momotombo Momotombo is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, not far from the city of León. It stands on the shores of Lago de Managua. An eruption of the volcano in 1610 forced inhabitants of the Spanish city of León to relocate about west. The ruins of thi ...

Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine was a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile ac ...

Montelimar Beach Montelimar is a beach located on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the Managua Department, department of Managua. Montelimar consists of 3 km of white sand beach. The main tourist attraction is the Barcelo Hotel and Resort. The current locat ...

Montezuma oropendola The Montezuma oropendola (''Psarocolius montezuma'') is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatema ...

Morrito Morrito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Cost ...

Mosquito Coast The Mosquito Coast, also known as the Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore, historically included the area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It formed part of the Western Caribbean Zone. It was named after the local Miskit ...

Moyogalpa Moyogalpa () is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa ...

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Muelle de los Bueyes, South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region Muelle de los Bueyes is a town and a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the no ...

Multiethnic Indigenist Party The Multiethnic Indigenous Party ( - PIM) is a regional Nicaraguan political party founded in 1998 by the PLC dissident and Maranatha __NOTOC__ ''Maranatha'' (Aramaic: ') is an Aramaic phrase which occurs once in the New Testament (). It also ...

* Multiethnic Party for Coast Unity * Mulukuku, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region * Murra, Nueva Segovia * Museum of Traditions and Legends *

Music of Nicaragua The Music of Nicaragua contains a mixture of White Nicaraguan, European, Indigenous Nicaraguans, Indigenous, and Afro-Nicaraguan, African influences. Occasionally, it also rarely features Asian music, Asian and Arab music, Arab musical influences ...

Muy Muy Muy Muy is a municipality in the Matagalpa department of Nicaragua. The municipality of Muy Muy was named by the Matagalpa people, who were the indigenous group native to the area. In their native language "''muimui''" translates to "the best" ( ...

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Nacatamal A ''nacatamal'' is a traditional dish found in Nicaragua and Honduras similar to the ''tamal'' and to the ''hallaca''. Its name originates from the Nawat language spoken by the Nicarao, which were situated on the Southern Pacific coast of Nicar ...

Nagarote Nagarote () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. The town of Nagarote has a population of 25,578 while the rural areas surrounding it has a population of 13,448. Nagarote is located from Managua. History Nagarote ...

Nandaime Nandaime is a town and a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua. Nandaime is a small town in the southwestern part of the country. It is located on the Panamerican highway which crosses the Pacific area of Nicaragua, at a distance ...

* Nandasmo *

National Action Party (Nicaragua) The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional - PAN) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party founded by Eduardo Rivas Gasteazoro in 1985 as a split from the Social Christian Party (PSC) in 1985. The PAN received legal status on appeal in ...

National anthem of Nicaragua National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

National Assembly of Nicaragua The National Assembly ( es, Asamblea Nacional) is the legislature, legislative branch of the government of Nicaragua founded in 1986 to replace the bicameral National Congress of Nicaragua, which consisted of two chambers. Composition The Nic ...

National Autonomous University of Nicaragua The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua ( es, link=no, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, UNAN) is the main state-funded public university of Nicaragua. Its main campus is located in Managua. The original campus, UNAN-Leon, is ...

* National Conservative Action *

National Guard (Nicaragua) The National Guard ( es, link=no, Guardia Nacional, otherwise known as ) was a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the occupation of Nicaragua by the United States. It became notorious for human rights abuses and corruption under t ...

National Opposition Union National Opposition Union ( es, Unión Nacional Opositora, UNO) was a Nicaraguan wide-range coalition of opposition parties formed to oppose president Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the 1990 election. Its candi ...

* National Project *

National symbols of Nicaragua National symbols of Nicaragua are the symbols that are used in Nicaragua and abroad to represent the country and its people. National Symbols of Nicaragua Flag The Flag of Nicaragua was adopted in 1971 and is based on the former flag of the Un ...

National System of Protected Areas (Nicaragua) National System of Protected Areas ( Spanish: ''Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas'') SINAP, is the Nicaraguan national parks administrator, and is part of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA). SINAP is entrust ...

* National Unity Movement * New Liberal Party * Nica (toponym) *

Nicaragua at the 1968 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed in the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. ReferencesOfficial Olympic Reports Nations at the 1968 Summer Olympics 1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other ...

Nicaragua at the 1972 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Results by event Athletics Men's 800 metres * Francisco Menocal :* Heat — 1:58.6 (→ did not advance) Boxing Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) * Salvador Miranda ...

Nicaragua at the 1976 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fifteen competitors, all men, took part in nineteen events in six sports. Athletics ;Men's High Jump * Carlos Abaunza :* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance) ...

Nicaragua at the 1980 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. Results by event Athletics Men's 400 m Hurdles * Leonel Teller :* Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance) Boxing Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg) * Onofre Ramirez ...

Nicaragua at the 1984 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. References Official Olympic Reports Nations at the 1984 Summer Olympics 1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full ind ...

Nicaragua at the 1992 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Eight competitors, seven men and one woman, took part in nine events in six sports. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics Me ...

Nicaragua at the 1996 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, United States. Athletics Baseball Men's Team Competition Nicaragua's debut performance at the Olympic baseball tournament resulted in a semifinal run for the t ...

Nicaragua at the 2000 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Athletics Shooting Swimming Taekwondo Weightlifting Men See also *Nicaragua at the 1999 Pan American Games References Official Olympic Reports ...

Nicaragua at the 2004 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Athletics Chinese athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at t ...

Nicaragua Betrayed ''Nicaragua Betrayed'', published by Western Islands in 1980, is the memoir of former President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle (as told to Jack Cox), who had been toppled the previous year by the Sandinista insurgency. At the time of the ...

Nicaragua Canal The Nicaraguan Canal ( es, Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project (also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect th ...

* Nicaragua Christian Academy *

Nicaragua national football team The Nicaragua national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de Nicaragua) represents Nicaragua in men's international football and is controlled by the Nicaraguan Football Federation. Nicaragua achieved its first qualification to a major in ...

* Nicaragua under Mexican rule *

Nicaragua v. United States ''The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America'' (1986) was a case where the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Sandinista ...

Nicaraguan American A Nicaraguan American ( es, nicaragüense-americano, ''nicaragüense-estadounidense'', or ) is an American of Nicaraguan descent. They are also referred to as "nica" or "nicoya". The Nicaraguan American population at the 2010 Census was 348,202 ...

Nicaraguan Campaign Medal The Nicaraguan Campaign Medal is a campaign medal of the United States Navy which was authorized by Presidential Order of Woodrow Wilson on September 22, 1913. A later medal, the Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was authorized by an act of the U ...

Nicaraguan Christian Democratic Union Unión Demócrata Cristiana ( es, Unión Demócrata Cristiana - UDC) is a Nicaraguan political party founded by the center-left Popular Social Christian Party (PPSC) and the center-right Democratic Party of National Confidence (PDCN) in 1992. The ...

Nicaraguan córdoba The córdoba (, currency sign, sign: C$; ISO 4217, code: NIO) is the currency of Nicaragua. It is divided into 100 ''centavos''. History The first córdoba was introduced on March 20, 1912. It replaced the Nicaraguan peso, peso moneda corrient ...

Nicaraguan Democratic Force The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (', or FDN) was one of the earliest Contra groups, formed on August 11, 1981 in Guatemala City. It was formed to oppose Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government following the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somo ...

Nicaraguan Democratic Movement The Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (Movimiento Democrático Nicaragüense - MDN) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party with social democratic ideology. The MDN was formed in 1978 and re-registered in 1989. MDN was the first Contra party give ...

* Nicaraguan diplomatic missions * Nicaraguan fifty-cordoba note * Nicaraguan five hundred-cordoba note *

Nicaraguan general election, 2006 General elections were held in Nicaragua on 5 November 2006. The country's voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and 90 members of the National Assembly. Daniel Ortega (FSLN) won the election with 37.99% of the vote, ...

Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA), is in charge of environmental protection and of the study, planning, and management of the Nicaragua's natural resources. It was formerly known as the Nicaraguan Institute of Natural R ...

Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( – ALN) is a political coalition in Nicaragua. It was started in 2005 by Eduardo Montealegre and other members of the Constitutional Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista – PLC) who opposed former P ...

Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign The Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign ( es, Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetización, CNA) was a campaign launched in 1980 by the Sandinista government in order to reduce illiteracy in Nicaragua. It was awarded the prestigious UNESCO UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krup ...

Nicaraguan one hundred-cordoba note Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean Sea, Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to ...

Nicaraguan peso The peso was the currency of Nicaragua between 1878 and 1912. It was Nicaragua's first national currency, replacing the Central American Republic real The real was the currency of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1824 to 1838/1841. ...

* Nicaraguan Resistance Party *

Nicaraguan Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; es, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It is of particular interest to linguists as it off ...

Nicaraguan Social Christian Party The Social Christian Party (Partido Social Cristiano – PSC) is a Nicaraguan political party with Christian democrat ideology founded in 1957. As of 2006, the PSC was part of the Sandinista Renovation Movement alliance in the 2006 Nicaraguan gene ...

Nicaraguan Socialist Party The Nicaraguan Socialist Party (''Partido Socialista Nicaragüense'') is a political party in Nicaragua. Founded in July 1944 by Dr. Mario Flores Ortiz. PSN operated as the official communist party in the country. At the time of its foundation, P ...

* Nicaraguan ten-cordoba note * Nicaraguan twenty-cordoba note * Nicaraguan Workers' Centre *

Nicaraguan Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

*Nicaragüense de Aviación (NICA) *Nicarao (cacique) *Nicarao people *Nicavisión (Canal 12) *Nicolás Osorno *Nindirí, Masaya *Nindirí *Niquinomo *Nora Astorga *

*Nueva Guinea *Nueva Segovia (department), Nueva Segovia *Nutting's flycatcher

O

*Occupation of Nicaragua *Ocelot *Ocotal *Olive warbler *Omar Cabezas *Omar D'León *Ometepe *Operation Gold *Organization of Central American States *Orlando Montenegro Medrano *Oscar Danilo Blandón *Oswaldo Castillo * Outline of Nicaragua

P

*Palacagüina *Palestinian Nicaraguan *Palm tanager *Palo de Mayo *Pantasma *Partido de Nicoya *Party for Citizen Action *Patricio Rivas *Pearl Cays *Pearl kite *Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro *Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal *Pinolero *Pinolillo *Pio Quinto *Plain chachalaca *Plain-brown woodcreeper *Plus Ultra Brigade *Political history of Nicaragua *Politics of Nicaragua *Polytechnic University of Nicaragua *Poneloya, Nicaragua *Popular Conservative Alliance *Popular Social Christian Party *Porfi Altamirano *Posoltega, Nicaragua *Potosí, Rivas *President of Nicaragua *Primera División de Nicaragua *Prinzapolka *Protected areas of Nicaragua *Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare *Pueblo Nuevo, Estelí *Puerto Cabezas Airport *Puerto Cabezas *Puerto Morazán *Puerto Sandino

Q

*Quesillo *Quezalguate *Quilalí

R

*Rail transport in Nicaragua *Rafaela Herrera *Rama language *Rama people *Rancho Grande *Rationing in Nicaragua *Real Estelí *Real Madriz *North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region *South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region *Religion in Nicaragua *René Schick Gutiérrez *Republic of Nicaragua ''(República de Nicaragua)'' *Revolutionary Unity Movement *Revolutionary Workers' Party (Nicaragua) *Ricardo Mayorga *Rigoberto Cruz *Rigoberto López Pérez *Río Blanco, Matagalpa *Río San Juan (department) *Rivas (department) *Rivas, Nicaragua, Rivas *Roberto Sacasa *Róger Calero *Róger Pérez de la Rocha *Role of women in Nicaraguan Revolution *Roman Catholicism in Nicaragua *Roman Gonzalez (boxer), Roman Gonzalez *Roosevelt Corollary *Rosario Murillo *Rosendo Alvarez *Rosendo Chamorro *Rosita Airport *Rota (volcano) *Roy Geiger *Rubén Darío *Rufous motmot

S

*Salomón Ibarra Mayorga *Salvador Machado *''"Salve a ti, Nicaragua"'' *San Carlos, Río San Juan *San Cristóbal volcano *San Dionisio, Matagalpa *San Fernando, Nueva Segovia *San Francisco de Cuapa *San Francisco del Norte *San Francisco Libre *San Isidro, Matagalpa *San Jorge, Rivas *San José de Achuapa *San José de Bocay *San José de Cusmapa *San José de los Remates *San Juan de Limay *San Juan de Nicaragua *San Juan de Oriente *San Juan del Río Coco *San Juan del Sur, Rivas *San Juan del Sur *San Juan River (Nicaragua) *San Lorenzo, Boaco *San Lucas, Madriz *San Marcos, Carazo *San Marcos, Nicaragua *San Miguelito, Río San Juan *San Nicolás, Estelí *San Pedro Airport, Nicaragua *San Pedro de Lóvago *San Pedro del Norte *San Rafael del Norte, Jinotega *San Rafael del Norte *San Rafael del Sur *San Ramón, Matagalpa *San Sebastián de Yalí *Sandinismo *Sandinista Ideologies *Sandinista National Liberation Front *Sandinista Popular Army *Sandinista Renovation Movement *Sandinista Workers' Centre *Santa Lucía, Boaco *Santa María de Pantasma *Santa María, Nueva Segovia *Santa Rosa del Peñón *Santa Teresa, Carazo *Santo Domingo, Chontales *Santo Tomás del Norte *Santo Tomás, Chontales *Scorpión FC *Sébaco *Sebastián Uriza *Semilla de Jicaro *Sergio Ramírez *Shawn Hasani Martin *Silvestre Selva *Sistema Nacional de Televisión (Nicaragua) *Sistema Sandinista de Televisión *Siuna Airport *Siuna *Smedley Butler *Snowcap *Social Conservative Party *Social Democratic Party (Nicaragua) *Solentiname Islands *Somotillo *Somoto Canyon National Monument *Somoto, Madriz *Somoto *Somoza *Sopa de Mondongo *Southern rough-winged swallow *Spanish colonization of the Americas *Spanish conquest of Nicaragua *Spanish language *Sumo languages, Sumo language *Supreme Electoral Council (Nicaragua), Supreme Electoral Council

T

*T-Bone *Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío *Telenica (Canal 8) *Telenorte Canal 35 *Televicentro (Canal 2) *Telica *Telica (volcano) *Telpaneca *Terrabona *Territorial disputes of Nicaragua *Teustepe *The Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan Revolution *The Freedom Fighter's Manual *Thelma Rodríguez *Ticuantepe *Timeline of Colombia-Nicaragua relations *Tipitapa *Tip-Top Restaurant *Tiscapa Lagoon Natural Reserve *Tisma *Tola, Rivas *Tomás Borge *Tomás Martínez *Tony Melendez *Torombolo *Totogalpa *Tourism in Nicaragua *Transportation in Nicaragua *Tropical Storm Bret (1993) *Tuma-La Dalia *Turquoise-browed motmot

U

*United Fruit Company *United Nations founding member state 1945 *United Nicaraguan Opposition *United States embargo against Nicaragua *United States embargo against Nicaragua *Unity Alliance *Universidad Centroamericana *Universidad Nacional Agraria *Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería *

*UNO-96 Alliance *Up with the Republic *Uriel Molina

V

*Vaho *Vicente Padilla *Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes *Vigorón *Villa El Carmen *Villanueva, Chinandega *Villa Sandino *Violeta Chamorro *Viva Managua Movement *VMA-231 *Volcanoes of Nicaragua *Voseo

W

*Waslala *Waspam *Waspam Airport *Water supply and sanitation in Nicaragua *Whiskered screech owl *White-shouldered tanager * *Wildlife of Nicaragua *William Walker (soldier) *Witness for Peace *Wiwilí de Jinotega *Wiwilí de Nueva Segovia *Women and the Armed Struggle in Nicaragua

X

*Xavier Chamorro Cardenal

Y

*Yalagüina *YATAMA

Z

*Zapatera *Zelaya (Nicaragua)

References

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