Santa Lucía () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Boaco Boaco () is the capital city and a municipality of the Boaco Department of Nicaragua. The municipality of Boaco has a population of 63,422 (2022 est.) and an area of 1,087 km2 (26% of the Boaco Department) while the department (state) is 4,1 ...

department of

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. It has a population of 10,300 (2006, est.) and an extension of 120.78 km². The capital is the town of Santa Lucía located 94 km from

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. Approx. 72% of the population lives in rural areas and 28% in the urban zones.

Overview

The economy is based mainly on agriculture with around 2,200 small farmers in the whole municipality. There are also some agropecuarian activities. The mayor of the municipality of Santa Lucía is Elba Maria Salinas Guzmán from the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC).

History

Back in the days of the Spanish colony, the town of Santa Lucía was known as ''Potreritos'' (''small pasturelands'', in English) and was part of the municipality of Teustepe. The town was later renamed in honor of

Saint Lucy Lucia of Syracuse ( – 304 AD), also called Saint Lucia () and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman people, Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic Church, Catholic, Angl ...

. On August 16, 1904, the town of Santa Lucía became the capital town of the homonymous municipality and part of the

department.

Local festivities

From December 10 to 17 in honor of

. The festivities continues on February 12 and 13. The municipality celebrates its patron with ''corridas'', popular ''fiestas'' and religious activities during the festivities.

References

Municipalities of the Boaco Department {{Nicaragua-geo-stub