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Death toll from Mitch still climbing: Hundreds of bodies found in Nicaragua villages buried by crater- lake flooding
; MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Rescue workers...buried when a crater lake overflowed and sent...those communities, Nicaragua's vice president...disaster told Radio Nicaragua on Sunday that she...bank of Managua Lake, about 25 miles...last week when the lake's edge advanced...have been killed ...
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Room Service: NICARAO LAKE RESORT, NICARAGUA
; ...capital of Granada, on the shores of Lake Nicaragua - the largest freshwater lake...of many hundreds of islands on Lake Nicaragua. The Nicarao may not be grand...Granada. Besides its sheer size, Lake Nicaragua's other claim to fame is the presence...
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Nicaragua: Rehabilitation of Lake Managua
; Rehabilitation of Lake Managua (part of a wider effort to rebuild...restore and utilize the 400-square-mile lake, which is a virtual dead sea after decades...Details: Ing. Horacio Wheelock, Coordinator, Lake Managua Basin Commission, IRENA. Tel. 31593...
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How We Blew It in Nicaragua
; ...FALLING By Anthony Lake Houghton Mifflin. 317 pp. $18.95 NICARAGUA has often been a...near-monopoly of power. Lake notes that at the...meetings, experts on Nicaraguan politics and history...dissatisfaction in Nicaragua, and the external...internal opposition. Lake's book differs ...
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Nicaragua plans a big dig to rival Panama canal.(WORLD)
; ...Science Monitor OMETEPE ISLAND, NICARAGUA -- The southern part of Ometepe...single dirt road that flanks Lake Nicaragua, pigs are left undisturbed...ships traversing the globe, Nicaragua has announced its own plan...to construct a canal across Nicaragua have been around for well...
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Nicaragua weighs digging own canal
; ...with Costa Rica and lets out into Lake Nicaragua. From the western side of the...Pacific. Other river routes to Lake Nicaragua have also been proposed, as well...clothes in the lapping waves of Lake Nicaragua, the project seems as far away...
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Getting to know Nicaragua: a ravishing landscape is among the country's strongest selling points. (Destination: Central America/Nicaragua).(Brief Article)
; Nicaragua offers many attractions for well-traveled clients in search...discover. Pascal Picot, owner of Oro Travel in Granada, Nicaragua, points out that only 35 percent of the 400,000 visitors who came to Nicaragua last year were from the U.S. Picot offers net prices for...searching for gold). Granada, at ...
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A man, a plan, a canal - Pamana? (EcoCanal plans would build a canal in Nicaragua, near the border of Costa Rica, to better move goods in the country)(Brief Article)
; ...east, to the great Lake Nicaragua and so to the west...sake of the canal, Nicaragua was first choice...Juan river and the lake. The Spanish conquistadors...the river up to Lake Nicaragua. The next could...locks from the lake to the Pacific...
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NICARAGUA'S CRISIS ECONOMY, LONG IN DECLINE, NOW SEEN PLUNGING TOWARD PARALYSIS
; MANAGUA, Nicaragua - It is possible these days...hot wind blowing off the lake, and watch the country's...years of steady decline, Nicaragua's economy is collapsing toward...ally of the Sandinistas. Nicaragua always has been a poor country...000 percent in 1988. The Nicaraguan cordoba, which ...
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Nicaragua hopes ship comes in: Backers say building a canal to rival Panama's would fulfill the nation's `destiny,' but skeptics fear disappointing history is doomed to repeat itself.
; ...ships would enter huge, freshwater Lake Nicaragua. Then the preferred canal route...other fields. Nicaragua says its lake, and two rivers in the east, would...canal the advantage. Of course, Nicaragua supposedly had the edge in 1875...
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