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Official Name of Nicaragua: Republic of Nicaragua
Government type in Nicaragua: republic
Capital of Nicaragua: Managua
Primary Language in Nicaragua: Spanish
Currency in Nicaragua: gold cordoba

The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001 saw the Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Largest country in Central America; contains the largest freshwater body in Central America, Lago de Nicaragua.

What is worth to see in Nicaragua

   León
   Granada
   Playa El Coco
   San Juan del Sur
   Morgan's Rock
   Montelimar
   Las Peńitas
   Camoapa
   Matagalpa
   Jinotega

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Nicaragua destinations

» Granada
» Leon
» Mangua
» Montelimar
» Puerto Corinto
» San Juan del Sur

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