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Nicaragua Overview |
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Interesting Facts about Nicaragua |
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| Learn about the geography, history, people, climate, government, economy, politics, military, and other aspects of Nicaragua. We have nine pages of interesting Nicaragua facts & figures: on everything from transportation and communications systems to natural hazards to transitional issues facing .Nicaragua. When you hear another country being discussed on the news, visit WorldCountries.info and gets the facts. |
| Area |
total: 129,494 sq km land: 120,254 sq km water: 9,240 sq km |
| Climate |
tropical in lowlands, cooler in highlands |
| Population |
5,675,356 (July 2007 est.) |
| Languages |
Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census) note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast |
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Official Tourism Site
There are countless reasons, in addition to the warmth of its people, that visitors fall in love with Nicaragua: two oceans, dozens of spectacular volcanoes, enormous lakes, magical lagoons, fabulous rivers, myriad plant and animal species, colonial towns, archeological treasures, natural wonders, brilliant thinkers, lively music, intense nights and delicious traditional cuisine.
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CIA World Factbook Description of Nicaragua |
| 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 2001, saw the Sandinistas defeated, but voting in 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt. |
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