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Las Peñitas, Nicaragua. / 12.3613500°N 87.0214583°W / 12.3613500; -87.0214583. Las Peñitas is a fishing village and tourist beach community on the North Western coast of Nicaragua. It lies within the León, Nicaragua municipality and the department of León and is next to Poneloya, Nicaragua. It is becoming a more and more popular ...
The city of León, Nicaragua in 1857. León ( Spanish pronunciation: [leˈon]) 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. As of 2022, the municipality of León has an estimated population of 213,718.
Granada is located along the coast of the Lake Nicaragua (a.k.a. Lake Cocibolca), the world's twentieth largest lake. Granada is the capital city of the Department of Granada, which borders Boaco and Managua to the north, Masaya and Carazo to the east and Rivas to the south. Within the same department, the River Tipitapa which connects the Lake ...
San Juan de Nicaragua: Río San Juan: MNSN San Juan de Nicaragua Airport: Siuna: RAAN: MNSI SIU Siuna Airport: Waspam: RAAN: MNWP WSP Waspam Airport: Other airports Alamikamba, Prinzapolka: RAAN: MNAL Alamikamba Airport: El Bluff: RAAN: MNFF El Bluff Airport - closed El Castillo: Río San Juan: MNPA Palcasa Airport: Juigalpa: Chontales: MNHG ...
The cathedral of León in Nicaragua was built between 1747 and the beginning of the 19th century with designs by the Guatemalan architect Diego José de Porres Esquivel. It expresses the transition from baroque to neoclassical architecture and its style can be considered eclectic. The cathedral is characterized by the sobriety of its interior ...
The conquistadors found the country occupied by numerous entrepreneurial towns practicing the arts and peaceful industries. Dr. Berendt, a great explorer and scholar of aboriginal people of Central America, in light of philological results obtained by himself and by American diplomat Ephraim George Squier (1849), as well as traditions preserved mainly by Oviedo, Torquemada and Herrera ...
The Nicaragua Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project is a combination credit (US$0.3 million) and grant (US$19.7 million) which was approved in June, 2008. The project, which will be implemented by FISE, aims to increase access to sustainable water supply and sanitation services in the rural areas of the country.
El Sauce ( Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈsawse]) is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. [ 2] Located in the foothills of the Segovia Mountains, the municipality has a population of 31,750 and covers an area of 693 km 2 . El Sauce is bordered to the north by the municipalities of San José de Achuapa and Estelí and ...