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Relations with Nicaragua Relations with Nicaragua
NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH NICARAGUA, RELATIONS WITH. Nicaragua's 1838 declaration of independence from the United Provinces of Central America was originally of little interest to U.S. officials. Yet by the late 1840s, growing interest in building a transoceanic canal across Central America... Read more
Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua
Lake Nicaragua 3,089 sq mi (8,001 sq km), c.100 mi (160 km) long and up to 45 mi (72 km) wide, SW Nicaragua; the largest lake of Central America. It is drained into the Caribbean Sea by the San Juan River. Lake Nicaragua, along with Lake Managua (which drains into it from the northwest), occupies... Read more
Bluefields Bluefields
Bluefields town (1995 pop. 30,208), capital of the South Atlantic Coast Autonomous Region and Zelaya dept., SE Nicaragua, on Bluefields Bay at the mouth of the Escondido River. It is Nicaragua's chief Caribbean port. Hardwoods and fish are exported. Bluefields was a rendezvous for English and Dutch... Read more
Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba
Francisco Fernández de Córdoba fränthēs´kō fārnän´dāth dā kōr´dōbä , d. 1526?, Spanish conquistador. Sent in 1523 by Pedro Arias de Ávila to deprive Gil González de Ávila (d. 1543) of his... Read more
Managua Managua
Managua , city (1995 pop. 819,731), W Nicaragua, capital and largest city of Nicaragua, on the southern shore of Lake Managua. It is the commercial and industrial center of the country. Situated on the Inter-American Highway, the city is the hub of Nicaragua's railroads. Managua was made permanent... Read more
Garifuna Garifuna
Garifuna PRONUNCIATION:gar-ih-FOO-nah LOCATION:Eastern coasts of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua; United States; Caribbean islands POPULATION:200,000–500,000 LANGUAGE:Spanish; English; Garifuna RELIGION:Catholicism, incorporating aspects of the... Read more
Nicaragua Nicaragua
Nicaragua , officially Republic of Nicaragua, republic (2005 est. pop. 5,465,000), 49,579 sq mi (128,410 sq km), Central America. Nicaragua is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean. The... Read more
Anastasio Somoza Debayle Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio Somoza Debayle , 1925-80, president of Nicaragua (1967-72, 1974—79). The younger son of dictator Anastasio Somoza , he was educated in the United States. He assumed command of the national guard at age 21 and was elected president in 1967. Barred from immediate reelection, he... Read more
Mosquito Coast Mosquito Coast
Mosquito Coast or Mosquitia , region, east coast of Nicaragua and Honduras. The name is derived from the Miskito, the indigenous inhabitants and remnants of the Chorotega . Never exactly delimited, the region is a belt c.40 mi (60 km) wide extending from the San Juan River north into NE... Read more
La Libertad La Libertad
La Libertad, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines Peru: a region formed in 1821. The name means ‘liberty’ or ‘freedom’ in Spanish, but although Peru declared its independence in 1821 it did not gain its freedom until 1824 when... Read more

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