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Granada Department
Granada () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities. Municipalities # Diria # Diriomo # Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ... # Nandaime References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada District
Granada District is one of twenty-one Districts of Peru, districts of the province Chachapoyas Province, Chachapoyas in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital''. Retrieved April 11, 2008. References 1933 establishments in Peru Districts of the Chachapoyas province Districts of the Amazonas Region {{AmazonasPE-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada, Nicaragua
Granada () is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of 105,862 (2022), it is Nicaragua's ninth most populous city. Granada is historically one of Nicaragua's most important cities, economically and politically. It has a rich colonial heritage, seen in its architecture and structure. Granada had a thriving Indigenous population. In 1524, the city was renamed Granada, by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, ostensibly the first European city in mainland America. Unlike other cities that claim the same distinction, the city of Granada was not only the settlement of the conquest, but also a city registered in official records of the Crown of Aragon, and the Kingdom of Castile in Spain. Granada is also known as ''La Gran Sultana'', in the reflection of its Moorish and Andalusian appearance, unlike its sister city and historical rival León (Nicaragua), León, which displa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISO 3166-2
ISO 3166-2 is part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and defines codes for identifying the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. The official name of the standard is ''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 2: Country subdivision code''. It was first published in 1998. The purpose of ISO 3166-2 is to establish an international standard of short and unique alphanumeric codes to represent the relevant administrative divisions and dependent territories of all countries in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than their full names. Each complete ISO 3166-2 code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen: * The first part is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the country; * The second part is a string of up to three alphanumeric characters, which is usually obtained from national sources and stems from coding systems alrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of Nicaragua
Nicaragua is a Unitary state, unitary republic, divided for administrative purposes into fifteen Department (country subdivision), departments () and two autonomous regions (). Departments Autonomous regions In 1987, the new Constitution of Nicaragua, constitution established the Charter of Autonomy (limited self-government) for the former Zelaya Department, department of Zelaya, comprising the entire eastern half of the country. The department was divided into two autonomous regions (communities): the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region and the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The Charter of Autonomy is largely based on Autonomous communities of Spain, the model used by Spain. The communities are governed by a Governor and a Regional Council. See also *ISO 3166-2:NI Notes * (INETER). . March, 2000. * (INIFOM). . * International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions''. ISO 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and Honduras. Nicaragua is bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean and shares maritime borders with El Salvador to the west and Colombia to the east. The country's largest city and national capital is Managua, the List of largest cities in Central America#Largest cities proper, fourth-largest city in Central America, with a population of 1,055,247 as of 2020. Nicaragua is known as "the breadbasket of Central America" due to having the most fertile soil and arable land in all of Central America. Nicaragua's multiethnic population includes people of mestizo, indigenous, European, and African heritage. The country's most spoken language is Spanish language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diria
Diria is a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua. Toponymy ''Diriá'' is a place name of origin mangue that means ''Green Hills''. In the Nahuatl language Diriá means Valley on high. Geography The municipal area limits to the north with the municipality of San Juan de Oriente and the Laguna de Apoyo, to the south with the municipality of Nandaime, to the east with the municipalities of Diriomo and Granada and to the west with the municipalities of Niquinohomo and La Paz de Oriente. The municipal seat is located 64 kilometers from the capital of Managua. The municipal territory is considered strictly broken and irregular, it has some mountain ranges such as Cerro de la Flor, Cerro de las Ardillas and Cerro Las Piedras; It is located in the upper northern part of the Apoyo Lagoon, which gives rise to three small springs or waterholes such as the Limón River, Chiquita and Las Pilas. History Populated by Indians, Diriá is one of the many indigenous communiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diriomo
Diriomo is a town and a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua. Diriomo is located on a plateau near the Mombacho Volcano, between Masatepe and Granada, 48 kilometers from the capital, Managua.The population of Diriomo Municipality is approximately 34,000. History The name of Diriomo comes from the native language of Nahuatlaca, meaning foreign. Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the town belonged to a tribe belonging to the Chorotegas, which also belonged to the neighboring areas of Diriangén, Nicarao and Diriá. Diriomo is also considered part of the White Towns, or Pueblos Blancos, along with Nindiri, San Juan de Oriente, San Marcos, Niquinohomo, Masatepe, Catarina, and Diria. These towns take this name due to the whitewash on their houses and buildings, made from water, salt and lime. The White Towns are known to represent strong Nicaraguan pre-Columbian In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, or as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nandaime
Nandaime is a town and a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua. Nandaime is a small town in the southwestern part of the country. It is located on the Panamerican highway which crosses the Pacific area of Nicaragua, at a distance of 67 km from Managua, capital of the Republic, and 20 kilometers from Granada, the departmental capital. The patron saints are St. Anne and San Joaquín San Joaquín (Spanish for Saint Joachim) is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is part of Greater Santiago. Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, San .... It was elevated to city on October 29, 1890. The name Nandaime is derived from the Chorotega word "nanda" (meaning " arroyo", or stream) and the suffix "-ime" (indicating abundance). Nandaime means "place of abundant streams". Climate References {{Coord, 11.75, N, 86.05, W, source:dewiki_region:NI_type:city, display=title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granada Department
Granada () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Granada, one of North America's oldest cities. Municipalities # Diria # Diriomo # Granada Granada ( ; ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence ... # Nandaime References Departments of Nicaragua {{Nicaragua-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
