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Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

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Abortion in Nicaragua Abortion in Nicaragua is completely illegal. Prior to a change in the law, which took effect on 18 November 2006, the law allowed pregnancies to be terminated for "therapeutic" reasons, but this clause is no longer in effect. Abortion law in Nicar ...

* Acoyapa * Adán Cárdenas *Adjacent countries: : : *

Adolfo Calero Adolfo Calero Portocarrero (December 22, 1931 – June 2, 2012) was a Nicaraguan businessman and the leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group of the Contras, opposing the Sandinista government. Calero was respons ...

Adolfo Díaz Adolfo Díaz Recinos (15 July 1875 in Alajuela, Costa Rica – 29 January 1964 in San José, Costa Rica) served as the President of Nicaragua between 9 May 1911 and 1 January 1917 and again between 14 November 1926 and 1 January 1929. Born in C ...

* Aeronica * Agkistrodon bilineatus *

Agriculture in Nicaragua Nicaragua produces coffee, cotton, bananas, sugar and beef cattle. Production In 2018, Nicaragua produced 7.2 million tons of sugarcane, being heavily dependent on this product. In addition to sugarcane, the country produced 395 thousand tons of ...

Alexander Vandegrift General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, USMC (March 13, 1887 – May 8, 1973) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. During World War II, he commanded the 1st Marine Division to victory in its first ground offensive of the war, the B ...

Alexis Argüello Alexis Argüello (April 19, 1952 – July 1, 2009) was a Nicaraguan professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 1995, and later became a politician. He was a three-weight world champion, having held the WBA featherweight title from 1974 to 19 ...

Alfonso Cortés Alfonso Cortés (9 December 1893 – 3 February 1969) was a Nicaraguan poet. He is often referred to as the second-most-important Nicaraguan poet, with Rubén Darío, who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (moder ...

* Alfonso Robelo * Alfredo Gómez Urcuyo * Alliance for the Republic * Altagracia *

Alternative for Change Alternative or alternate may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Alternative (Kamen Rider), Alternative (''Kamen Rider''), a character in the Japanese TV series ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' * The Alternative (film), ''The Alternative'' (film), a 19 ...

* América Managua * American Nicaraguan School * American sweetgum *

Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

The division of the Americas into the continents of North America and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

is somewhat arbitrary. Most commonly,

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

is considered to be a part of North America and Colombia is considered a part of South America.

Geologically Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other astronomical objects, the features or rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other E ...

, the boundary between the two continents is defined by the boundary between the

Caribbean Plate The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometers (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders ...

and the South American Plate. This places the boundary roughly along the Panama-Colombia border. Other definitions place the boundary at the lowest natural crossing of the Isthmus of Panama near the

Panama Canal The Panama Canal ( es, Canal de Panamá, link=no) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean and divides North and South America. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a condui ...

, or along the canal itself. Another definition places the boundary at the lowest crossing of

Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...

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Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ( es, Lago de Nicaragua, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest lake in Central America, the 19th largest lake in the world (by area) and the t ...

. This definition splits Central America between the continents of North and South America. ** North AmericaGreater North America may be geographically subdivided into

Northern America Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America. The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean and Central America).Gonzalez, Joseph. 2 ...

, and the Caribbean. ***

Central America is defined as the southeasternmost extent of North America, most commonly including the seven nations of

Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and Central American country on the northeastern coast of Central America. It is bordered by Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Guatemala to the west and south. It also shares a wate ...

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North Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

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North Pacific Ocean North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' i ...

* Aminta Granera * Anastasio Somoza Debayle *

Anastasio Somoza García Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1937 until his assassination in 1956. He was only officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 195 ...

Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (born 1 February 1951) is a Nicaraguan American colonel and businessman. Biography Early life Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero was born on December 18, 1951, in Miami, Florida, United States. A member of the Somoza fa ...

* Ancient footprints of Acahualinca * Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve * Aristides Sánchez *

Arlen Siu Arlen Siu Bermúdez (15 July 1955 – 1 August 1975), was a singer-songwriter, essayist and Sandinista revolutionary, who became one of the first casualties during the insurrection against Somoza. Her death at an early age, made her a local cele ...

* Armando Morales Barillas * Armando Morales * Arnoldo Alemán * Arroz a la valenciana * Arturo Cruz, Jr. * Arturo Cruz * Asociación de Scouts de Nicaragua * Atlantic Airlines (Nicaragua) * Atlas of Nicaragua *

Atv98 The atv98 channel (Asamblea TV) is a cable television channel from Nicaragua, similar to C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN ) is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable tele ...

* Aubry Campbell Ingram *

Augusto César Sandino Augusto C. Sandino (; May 18, 1895 February 21, 1934), full name Augusto Nicolás Calderón de Sandino y José de María Sandino, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion between 1927 and 1933 against the United States occupat ...

* Authentic Costeño Autonomy Movement * Ave Maria University-Latin American Campus * Avena (drink) *

Awas Tingni Awas Tingni is an indigenous Mayagna community of some 2,400 members on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua, in the municipality of Waspam in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. Awas Tingni is located near the junction of the Rio Wawa and the ...

* Ayax Delgado * Azarías Pallais

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Banana Wars The Banana Wars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inceptio ...

* Banking in Nicaragua * Barbara Carrera *

Barricada (FSLN) ''Barricada'' (1979–1998) was an official publication of FSLN during the Sandinista revolutionary period. The first issue was published on 26 July 1979 and its stated goal was to promote the revolutionary project of the revolutionary regime. I ...

* Bartolomé Martínez * Battle for Río San Juan de Nicaragua * Belén, Rivas *

Ben Linder Benjamin Ernest "Ben" Linder (July 7, 1959 – April 28, 1987), was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder was killed by the Contras, a loose confederation of rebel groups funded by t ...

* Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa * Big stick diplomacy *

Bilwi Puerto Cabezas (; en, Bragman's Bluff; miq, Bilwi) is a municipality and city in Nicaragua. It is the capital of Miskito nation in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The municipality and the entire region are native American lands. ...

* Blanca Castellón * Bluefields Airport *

Bluefields Bluefields is the capital of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region in Nicaragua. It was also the capital of the former Kingdom of Mosquitia, and later the Zelaya Department, which was divided into North and South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Regi ...

* Boaco (department) * Boaco * Bocana de Paiwas * Bolsa de Valores de Nicaragua * Bonanza Airport * Bonanza, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region * Bosawás Biosphere Reserve * Bronzy hermit *

Bryan–Chamorro Treaty The Bryan–Chamorro Treaty was signed between Nicaragua and the United States on August 5, 1914. It gave the United States full rights over any future canal built through Nicaragua. The Wilson administration changed the treaty by adding a prov ...

Buddhism in Nicaragua Buddhism in Nicaragua has existed since the late 19th century, after immigration from countries with Buddhist populations, mainly China. Although sources are not readily available, Buddhists are believed to constitute 0.1% of the total population in ...

Buenos Aires, Rivas Buenos Aires is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ( es, Lago de Nicaragua, , or ) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin ...

Buff-collared nightjar The buff-collared nightjar or Ridgway's whip-poor-will (''Antrostomus ridgwayi'') is a species of nightjar in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico.Bower ...

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Cabo Gracias a Dios Cabo Gracias a Dios is a cape located in the middle of the east coast of Central America, within what is variously called the Mosquito Coast and La Mosquitia. It is the point where the Rio Coco flows into the Caribbean, and is the border bet ...

Camoapa Camoapa is a city and a municipality in the Boaco department of Nicaragua. Camoapa city is the capital of a municipality described within the Boaco departmental area of Nicaragua. Although Camoapa is a small town, (founded on August 23, 1858), ...

* Canal 4 * Canal 6 * Canal 9 * Canal 10 * Canal 15 * Capital of Nicaragua:

Managua ) , settlement_type = Capital city , motto = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Nicar ...

Captaincy General of Guatemala The Captaincy General of Guatemala ( es, Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala ( es, Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central ...

Carazo (department) Carazo () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1,081 km2 and has a population of 198,395 (2021 estimate). The capital is Jinotepe. Geography Much of the department consists of a large plain sloping gently down towards the Pa ...

* Cárdenas, Rivas * Caribbean Lowlands *

Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín Carlos Alberto Brenes Jarquín (2 December 1884 in Masaya – 2 January 1942 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 9 June 1936 to 1 January 1937. He was a member of the Nationalist Liberal Party. Brenes was the president of the lowe ...

* Carlos Fonseca *

Carlos José Solórzano Carlos José Solórzano Gutiérrez (17 January 1860 in Managua – 30 August 1936 in San José, Costa Rica) was the President of Nicaragua between 1 January 1925 and 14 March 1926. History He headed a political coalition which was moderate C ...

Carlos Mejía Godoy Carlos Mejía Godoy (born June 27, 1943) is a Nicaraguan musician (accordion), composer and singer. He was born in Somoto, Madriz. Son of Carlos Mejía Fajardo and María Elsa Godoy, his brother Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, three years younger tha ...

* Carne Pinchada *

Carolina wren The Carolina wren (''Thryothorus ludovicianus'') is a common species of wren that is a resident in the eastern half of the United States of America, the extreme south of Ontario, Canada, and the extreme northeast of Mexico. Severe winters restri ...

Catarina, Masaya Catarina is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica ...

* Central America Hurricane of 1941 * Central American Defense Council * Central American Parliament *

Central American Unionist Party The Central American Unionist Party (Spanish: ''Partido Unionista Centroamericano'' - PUCA) is a center-right Nicaraguan political party. PUCA was originally established as a cultural grouping advocating 'Central Americanization' in 1904. Renamed t ...

* Cerro Arenal Natural Reserve *

Cerro Negro Cerro Negro is an active volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range in Nicaragua, about from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April 1850. It consist ...

* Chacraseca *

Chamorro (family) The Chamorro family has its origin in Spain. A branch of the family became prominent in Nicaragua in the 18th century and its influence continues to the present. Historically, the Chamorros have been closely associated with the Conservatives, bu ...

Chesty Puller Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller (June 26, 1898 – October 11, 1971) was a United States Marine Corps officer. Beginning his career fighting guerillas in Haiti and Nicaragua as part of the Banana Wars, he later served with distinction in World Wa ...

* Chichigalpa *

Chinandega (department) Chinandega () is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of 4,822 km2 and has a population of 441,897 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Chinandega. Largely agricultural, it produces rum f ...

* Chinandega, Chinandega * Chinandega * Chinese Nicaraguan * Chocoyero Nature Reserve * Chontales *

Christian F. Schilt Christian Frank Schilt (March 19, 1895 – January 8, 1987) was one of the first Marine Corps aviators and a recipient of the United States highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. He received the Medal for using his biplane to evacuate ...

* Christian Unity Movement *

Christianne Meneses Jacobs Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born March 28, 1971) is a Nicaraguan American writer, editor, and teacher. She is the publisher of ''Iguana;'' a Spanish language magazine for children. Nicaragua (1971–1988) Christianne Meneses Jacobs was born in ...

* Chureca * Churrasco * Cinco Pinos * Ciudad Antigua * Ciudad Darío *

Ciudad Sandino Ciudad Sandino is a city and municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the ea ...

* Civic Association of Potosí * Claribel Alegría Coat of arms of Nicaragua

* Clark Memorandum *

Clodomiro Picado Twight Clodomiro Picado Twight (April 17, 1887 - May 16, 1944), also known as "Clorito Picado", was a Costa Rican scientist who was internationally recognized for his pioneering research on snake venom and the development of various antivenins. His wor ...

* Coast Alliance * Coast People's Party *

Coat of arms of Nicaragua The Nicaraguan coat of arms was first adopted on August 21, 1823 as the coat of arms of Central America, but underwent several changes during the course of history, until the last version (''as of 1999'') was introduced in 1971. Meaning The t ...

Coco River River Wangki in Miskitu or Río Coco, in Spanish, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River, is a river located on the border of northern Nicaragua and southern Honduras. It is the longest river that runs entirely within the Ce ...

* Colegio Centro América * Colombia-Nicaragua relations * Comalapa, Chontales * Comedor Escolar Project * Communications in Nicaragua * Communist Party of Nicaragua *

Concepción (volcano) Concepción is one of two volcanoes (along with Maderas) that form the island of Ometepe, which is situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America. Concepción is an active stratovolcano that forms the northwest part of the Isla de Ome ...

* Condega * Confederation of Labour Unification * Conservative Alliance * Conservative Party of Nicaragua *

Constitutionalist Liberal Party The Constitutionalist Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC) is a political party in Nicaragua. At the Nicaraguan general election of 5 November 2006, the party won 25 of 92 seats in the National Assembly. However, the pa ...

* Contras * Cordillera Los Maribios *

Corinto, Nicaragua Corinto is a town, with a population of 18,552 (2021 estimate), on the northwest Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the province of Chinandega. The municipality was founded in 1863. History Early years The town of Corinto was founded in 1849. It first ...

Corn Island Airport Corn Island International Airport is a civil-military public International Airport that serves Great Corn Island on the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua and located in the Island's Downtown area known locally as ''Brig Bay,'' ...

Corn Islands The Corn Islands are two islands about east of the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, constituting one of 12 municipalities of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The official name of the municipality is ''Corn Island'' (the English name is ...

* Cosiguina * Costeño Democratic Alliance * Cuisine of Nicaragua * Culture of Nicaragua *

Cupressus lusitanica ''Cupressus lusitanica'', the Mexican cedar or cedar-of-Goa, is a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras). It has also been introduced to Belize, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, growing at altitu ...

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* Daisy Zamora * Dance in Nicaragua * Daniel Ortega * David Green (baseball player) *

Democratic Conservative Party The Democratic Conservative Party ( Spanish: ''Partido Conservador Demócrata'', PCD) is a Nicaraguan political party with a traditional conservative ideology. The party was formed in 1979. Clemente Guido participated as PCD's presidential candida ...

Democratic Party (Nicaragua) The Democratic Party ( es, Partido Democrático, PD), renamed in 1893 as the Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal, PL), was a Nicaraguan political party in the 19th century. The power base of the liberal Democratic Party was in the city of León; ...

* Democratic Party of National Confidence * Democratic Revolutionary Alliance * Demographics of Nicaragua *

Dennis Martínez José Dennis Martínez Ortiz (born May 14, 1955), nicknamed "El Presidente" (The President), is a Nicaraguan professional baseball pitcher. Martínez played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos, Cleveland India ...

Dennis Martínez National Stadium Estadio Nacional Soberanía ( es, Estadio Nacional Soberanía, links=no) is located in Managua, Nicaragua. It has a capacity of 15,000 and it was named after former MLB player Dennis Martínez. The original stadium was built in 1948 and is Nicara ...

Departments of Nicaragua __NOTOC__ Nicaragua is a unitary republic, divided for administrative purposes into fifteen departments (Spanish: ) and two autonomous regions (Spanish: ): Autonomous regions In 1987, the new constitution established the Charter of Autonom ...

* Deportivo Bluefields * Deportivo Jalapa (Nicaragua) * Deportivo Masatepe *

Deportivo Walter Ferretti Club Deportivo Walter Ferretti is a Nicaraguan football team who play in the Nicaraguan Premier Division. They are based in Managua ) , settlement_type = Capital city , motto = , image_map ...

* Desembocadura de la Cruz de Río Grande * Devern Hansack * Diego Manuel Chamorro Bolaños * Dimension Costena * Dipilto * Diria *

Diriamba Diriamba is a city and a municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua, with a population of 64,757 (2020 estimate). It is located 41 km south of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Geography The city's elevation (just above 500 mete ...

* Diriangén FC * Diriangén * Diriomo *

DJ Craze DJ Craze (born Arist Delgado; November 19, 1977), is a Nicaraguan American DJ and record producer who plays hip hop, Miami bass, trap, breaks, dubstep, drum and bass, and practices turntablism. He was, until 2020, the only solo DJ in history ...

Dollar Diplomacy Dollar diplomacy of the United States, particularly during the presidency of William Howard Taft (1909–1913) was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and ...

Dolores, Carazo Dolores is a municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. Located between Diriamba to the west and Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. It borders with Managua, Masaya, Granada, and ...

* Donald Vega

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Ecocanal The Nicaraguan Ecocanal was a proposed project in Nicaragua to build a shallow-draft waterway connecting the inland Lake Nicaragua with the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River in the south of the country. The main aim of the waterway was to prov ...

* Ecologist Green Party of Nicaragua * Economic history of Nicaragua * Economy of Nicaragua *

Edén Pastora Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez (November 15, 1936 or January 22, 1937 – June 16, 2020) was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. I ...

Edgar Chamorro Édgar Chamorro Coronel (born 23 July 1931) is an ousted leader of the Nicaraguan rebel Contras who later became a critic of the rebels and their Central Intelligence Agency sponsors, even cooperating with the Sandinista government in their World ...

Edmundo Jarquín Edmundo Jarquín (born in Ocotal, September 1946) is a Nicaraguan politician. He was the vice presidential running-mate of Herty Lewites, who was the presidential candidate for the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) in the 2006 elections unt ...

* Eduardo Montealegre * Education in Nicaragua *

El Almendro El Almendro (meaning "The Almond Tree") is a rural municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. Tradition states that El Almendro was founded in 1892, when Nery López, Perfecto Romero Acosta, Francisco González, and others, sea ...

* El Arenal Natural Reserve * El Ayote *

El Castillo (municipality) El Castillo is a municipality located on the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. The settlement of what would eventually become the municipality of El Castillo began in 1673, when construction of the ''Fo ...

El Castillo (village) El Castillo is a village of about 1,500 people situated on the southern bank of the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in southern Nicaragua. It is one of 27 comarcas of the municipality of El Castillo, a subdivision of the Río San Juan Department ...

* El Coral *

El Crucero El Crucero () is a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua. It is located on the summit and slopes of the ''Sierras de Managua'', east of Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. I ...

* El Cuá * El Güegüense * El Jicaral * El Jícaro, Nueva Segovia *

El Nuevo Diario ''El Nuevo Diario'' was a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua. History In 1980, the owner of ''La Prensa'' fired the editor Xavier Chamorro Cardenal. Eighty percent of the papers employees left with Chamorro Cardena due t ...

* El Rama * El Realejo * El Rosario, Carazo *

El Sauce, León El Sauce () is a town and a municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. Located in the foothills of the Segovia Mountains, the municipality has a population of 31,664 and covers an area of 693 km2. El Sauce is bordered to the north ...

* El Tortugero * El Viejo * Elections in Nicaragua *

Emiliano Chamorro Vargas Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (11 May 1871 – 26 February 1966) was a Nicaraguan military figure and politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1917 to 1 January 1921, and again as interim president from 14 March to 11 November 192 ...

* Emiliano Madriz * Emilio Alvarez Lejarza * Emilio Alvarez Montalván * Enlace Nicaragua (Canal 21) * Enrique Bermúdez *

Enrique Bolaños Enrique José Bolaños Geyer (; 13 May 1928 – 14 June 2021) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 10 January 2002 to 10 January 2007. From 1997 to 2002, Bolaños served as vice president under Arnoldo Alemán ...

* Enrique Gottel * Eric Volz *

Ernesto Cardenal Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...

* Ernesto Leal * Erwin Krüger * Esquipulas, Matagalpa * Estadio Cacique Diriangén *

Estadio Independencia Estadio Independencia is a multi-use stadium in Estelí, Nicaragua. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium to Real Estelí. The stadium holds 5,000 people, and has been renovated and equipped with synthetic turf i ...

* Estadio Olímpico de San Marcos * Estelí (department) *

Estelí Estelí (), officially Villa de San Antonio de Pavia de Estelí is a city and municipality within the Estelí department. It is the 3rd largest city in Nicaragua due to the high urbanization of its municipality, at 83%, with an urban population of ...

* Estero Padre Ramos Natural Reserve * ESTV (Canal 11) * Evaristo Carazo * Evaristo Rocha

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FC San Marcos FC San Marcos is a Nicaraguan football team playing in the Nicaraguan Premier Division. It is based in San Marcos. Their home stadium is Estadio Leonardo G. Jara. History San Marcos won promotion back to the Nicaraguan Premier Division in ...

* Federación Nacional de Muchachas Guías de Nicaragua Flag of Nicaragua

* Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol *

Federal Republic of Central America The Federal Republic of Central America ( es, República Federal de Centroamérica), originally named the United Provinces of Central America ( es, Provincias Unidas del Centro de América), and sometimes simply called Central America, in it ...

* Feminist ideology during the Sandinista Revolution * Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro * Fernando Agüero *

Fernando Chamorro Alfaro Fernando Chamorro Alfaro (1824 – 21 July 1863) was a General and member of the governing junta of Nicaragua (1860–1863). Fernando Chamorro was a firm supporter of the Conservative Party, which was dominated during his youth by his half-brother ...

* Fernando Guzmán *

Flag of Nicaragua The flag of Nicaragua was first adopted on September 4, 1908, but not made official until August 27, 1971. It is based on, and inspired by, the flag of the Federal Republic of Central America and flag of Argentina. It is one of only three nati ...

* Foreign relations of Nicaragua *

Fortress of the Immaculate Conception The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, (Spanish: ''El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción'') is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River (''Río San Juan''), in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua. Th ...

* Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños *

Fruto Chamorro José Fruto Chamorro Pérez (20 October 1804 – 12 March 1855) was a Nicaraguan politician and military scientist who served as 10th Supreme Director of Nicaragua (April 1, 1853 – April 30, 1854) and 1st President of Nicaragua (April 30, 1854 ...

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* Gabriel Traversari *

Gallo pinto or Royal Spanish Academy y Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (2014)«gallopinto» ''Diccionario de la lengua española'' (23.ª edición). Madrid: Spain. . Consulted October 19, 2018. is a traditional dish from Central America. Con ...

Garifuna language Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan language family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside t ...

* Gaspar García Laviana * Geography of Nicaragua *

Gil González Dávila Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila (b. 1480 – 21 April 1526) was a Spanish conquistador and the first European to explore present-day Nicaragua. Early career González Dávila first appears in historical records in 1508, when he ...

* Gioconda Belli *

Good Neighbor policy The Good Neighbor policy ( ) was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America. Although the policy was implemented by the Roosevelt administration, President Woodrow Wilson had prev ...

* Granada (department) * Granada, Granada, Nicaragua *

Granada, Nicaragua Granada () is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of 104,980 (2021), it is Nicaragua's ninth most populous city. Granada is historically one of Nicaragua's most important cities, eco ...

Gray-rumped swift The grey-rumped swift or gray-rumped swift (''Chaetura cinereiventris'') is a species of bird in subfamily Apodinae of the swift family Apodidae.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife Internation ...

Great Liberal Union The Great Liberal Union ( es, Gran Unión Liberal (GUL) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party (never legally registered) formed by President Bolaños and other dissidents from the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) in 2004. After signing ...

* Greater pewee * Greytown, Nicaragua * Grupo Armado * Güirila * Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa *

Gulf of Fonseca The Gulf of Fonseca ( es, Golfo de Fonseca; ), a part of the Pacific Ocean, is a gulf in Central America, bordering El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. History Fonseca Bay was discovered for Europeans in 1522 by Gil González de Ávil ...

''( Golfo de Fonseca)''

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* Hammond's flycatcher *

Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty ( es, Tratado Hay-Bunau Varilla) was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. It was named ...

Hay–Herrán Treaty The Hay–Herrán Treaty was a treaty signed on January 22, 1903, between United States Secretary of State John M. Hay of the United States and Tomás Herrán of Colombia. Had it been ratified, it would have allowed the United States a renewab ...

* Herty Lewites *

History of Nicaragua Nicaragua is a nation in Central America. It is located about midway between Mexico and Colombia, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. Nicaragua ranges from the Caribbean Sea on the nation's east coast, and the Pacific ...

* Hoffmann's two-toed sloth * Hugo Palma-Ibarra *

Humberto Ortega General Humberto Ortega Saavedra (born January 10, 1947 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan military leader, often self-called leading Latin American revolutionary strategist, and published writer. He was Minister of Defense between the victory of the ...

* Hunguhungu *

Hurricane Beta Hurricane Beta was a compact and intense tropical cyclone that impacted the southwestern Caribbean in late October 2005. Beta was the twenty-fourth tropical storm, fourteenth hurricane, and seventh and final major hurricane of the record- ...

Hurricane Cesar–Douglas Hurricane Cesar–Douglas was one of the few tropical cyclones to survive the crossover from the Atlantic to east Pacific basin, and was the last to receive two names upon doing so. Hurricane Cesar was the third named storm and second hurricane o ...

Hurricane Felix Hurricane Felix was an extremely powerful Category 5 Atlantic hurricane which was the southernmost-landfalling Category 5 storm on record, surpassing Hurricane Edith of 1971. It was the sixth named storm, second hurricane, and second Category ...

* Hurricane Gert *

Hurricane Greta–Olivia Hurricane Greta, later Hurricane Olivia, was one of fourteen named Atlantic hurricanes to cross over Central America into the eastern Pacific while remaining a tropical cyclone. The seventh named storm of the 1978 Atlantic hurricane season, Gret ...

Hurricane Irene–Olivia Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin. It originated as a tropical depression on September 11, 1971, in the tropical Atlantic. The cyclone tracked ...

* Hurricane Joan–Miriam *

Hurricane Mitch Hurricane Mitch is the second-deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, causing over 11,000 fatalities in Central America in 1998, including approximately 7,000 in Honduras and 3,800 in Nicaragua due to cataclysmic flooding from the slow motion ...

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* Ignacio Chávez (President of Nicaragua) * Independent Liberal Party (Nicaragua) *

Independent Liberal Party for National Unity The Independent Liberal Party for National Unity (Partido Liberal Independiente por la Unidad Nacional) (PLIUN) is a Nicaraguan centre-right party that split from the Independent Liberal Party in 1984 as a consequence of PLI's decision to particip ...

* Indio Maíz Biological Reserve * INCAE Business School *

International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...

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ISO ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization. ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance * Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007 * Iso ...

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are two-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas of ...

country code for the Nicaragua: NI **

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are three-letter country codes defined in ISO 3166-1, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to represent countries, dependent territories, and special areas o ...

country code for the Nicaragua: NIC ** ISO 3166-2:NI region codes for the Nicaragua *

Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair ( fa, ماجرای ایران-کنترا, es, Caso Irán–Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the McFarlane affair (in Iran), or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States ...

* Isla de Cozumel * Islam in Nicaragua * Islands of Nicaragua

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* J Smooth * Jaguar * Jaguarundi * Jalapa, Nueva Segovia * Jewish Nicaraguan * Jinotega (department) *

Jinotega, Jinotega Jinotega () (derived from Náhuatl: ''Xiotenko'' ‘place next to the jiñocuajo trees’) is the capital city of the Department of Jinotega in north-central Nicaragua. The city is located in a long valley surrounded by the cool climate and Da ...

Jinotega Jinotega () (derived from Náhuatl: ''Xiotenko'' ‘place next to the jiñocuajo trees’) is the capital city of the Department of Jinotega in north-central Nicaragua. The city is located in a long valley surrounded by the cool climate and D ...

* Jinotepe, Carazo *

Jinotepe Jinotepe () is a city and municipality in the Carazo department of Nicaragua. It borders with Managua, Masaya, Granada, and Rivas. Toponymy Jinotepe comes from the náhuatl "xilotl" (“tender corn”), "tepetl" (“hill”) y "-k" (“place� ...

* Joaquín Cuadra *

Joaquín Zavala Joaquín Zavala Solís (30 November 1835 in Managua – 30 December 1906 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1879 to 1 March 1883 and from 16 July to 15 September 1893. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua. ...

* John Negroponte * Jorge Salazar *

José Areas José Octavio "Chepito" Areas Dávila (born 25 July 1946) is a Nicaraguan percussionist best known for having played timbales and Conga drums in the Latin rock group Santana in 1969–1977 and 1987–1989. In 1998, he was inducted into the Roc ...

José Coronel Urtecho José Coronel Urtecho (28 February 1906 – 19 March 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian. He has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth centu ...

* José Dolores Estrada (president) * José Dolores Estrada *

José Francisco Cardenal José Francisco Cardenal (born 1940) was a Nicaraguan businessman who became known as one of the most pugnacious opponents of the Somoza and then the Sandinista regimes of Nicaragua, and played an important role in the early days of the Contra r ...

* José León Sandoval * José Madriz * José María Estrada * José María Moncada Tapia * José Rizo Castellón *

José Santos Zelaya José Santos Zelaya López (1 November 1853 in Managua – 17 May 1919 in New York City) was the President of Nicaragua from 25 July 1893 to 21 December 1909. Early life He was a son of José María Zelaya Irigoyen, who was originally from ...

José Vicente Cuadra José Vicente De la Cuadra y Ruy Lugo (25 July 1812, in Granada, Nicaragua – 10 December 1894) served as President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1871 to 1 March 1875 during that country's late-19th-century reconstruction. As a member of the Conservat ...

* Joseph A. Harrison * Joseph Adams *

Joseph Henry Pendleton Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (June 2, 1860 – February 4, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps general for whom Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is named. Pendleton served in the Marine Corps for over 40 years. Biography Joseph Hen ...

Juan Bautista Sacasa Juan Bautista Sacasa (21 December 1874 in León, Nicaragua – 17 April 1946 in Los Angeles, California) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1933 to 9 June 1936. He was the eldest son of Roberto Sacasa and Ángela Sacasa Cuadra, the for ...

Juan José Estrada Juan José Estrada Morales (1 January 1872 in Managua – 11 July 1967 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 29 August 1910 to 9 May 1911. Biography Juan José Estrada Morales was a Nicaraguan military and political figure who acted ...

* Juigalpa, Chontales *

Juigalpa Juigalpa () is the municipal seat of Juigalpa Municipality and the capital city of the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is located within the municipality of Juigalpa, approximately 140 km east of Managua on Carretera Rama, in the cent ...

* Julio Valle Castillo * Junta of National Reconstruction * Justo Abaunza

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* Kukra Hill * Katia Cardenal

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* La Chureca * La Concepción, Masaya * La Concordia, Jinotega * La Conquista * La Costeña * La Cruz de Río Grande * La Libertad, Chontales * La Paz Centro * La Paz de Carazo * La Prensa (Managua) * La Trinidad, Estelí *

Laguna de Perlas Pearl Lagoon is a municipality that is often time called just Lagoon and was historically known as English Bank. It is located in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. It is the most important town of the largest coastal lagoon ...

* Lake Apanás *

Lake Managua Lake Managua ( es, Lago de Managua, ), also known as Lake Xolotlán (), is a lake in Nicaragua. At 1,042 km², it is approximately long and wide. Similarly to the name of Lake Nicaragua, its other name comes from the Nahuatl language, possi ...

Languages of Nicaragua The official language of Nicaragua is Spanish; however, Nicaraguans on the Caribbean coast speak indigenous languages and also English. The communities located on the Caribbean coast also have access to education in their native languages. Additio ...

Larreynaga Larreynaga () is the second largest municipality in the León Department of Nicaragua. The municipality seat is the town of Malpaisillo. The estimated population of the municipality is 33,028 but it is steadily growing at a rate of 2.22% yearly. ...

* Las Lajas (volcano) * Las Peñitas, Nicaragua * Las Pilas *

Las Sabanas Las Sabanas is a municipality in the Madriz department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa ...

Latin America Latin America or * french: Amérique Latine, link=no * ht, Amerik Latin, link=no * pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...

Laureano Pineda José Laureano Pineda Ugarte (4 July 1802 – 17 September 1853) was a Nicaraguan lawyer and politician who, as a Senator in the Legislative Assembly and member of the Democratic Party, was appointed to serve as 7th and later 8th Supreme Director ...

Legitimist Party (Nicaragua) The Legitimist Party ( es, Partido Legitimista, PL) was a conservative Nicaraguan political party, the first in its country. The power base of the Legitimist Party was in Granada. The Legitimists were opposed to the Democrats. After several year ...

* Legitimists (Nicaragua) *

León (department) Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to: Places Europe * León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León * Province of León, Spain * Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...

* León, Nicaragua *

Leonardo Argüello Barreto Leonardo Argüello Barreto (29 August 1875 – 15 December 1947) was a Nicaraguan politician who, after several attempts, became the President of Nicaragua in 1947. He served from 1 May to 27 May 1947. His older brother was the noted poet Santi ...

LGBT rights in Nicaragua Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Nicaragua face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Nicaragua. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is ...

(Gay rights) * Liberal-Conservative Junta * Liberalism in Nicaragua * Lincoln International Academy * Linux Tour * Lists related to Nicaragua: ** Diplomatic missions of Nicaragua ** List of airports in Nicaragua ** List of banks in Nicaragua **

List of birds of Nicaragua This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nicaragua. The avifauna of Nicaragua included a total of 786 species as of July 2022, according to ''Bird Checklists of the World''. Of them, 142 are rare or accidental and five have been introduc ...

** List of books and films about Nicaragua ** List of cinemas in Nicaragua ** List of cities in Nicaragua **

List of diplomatic missions in Nicaragua This is a list of diplomatic missions in Nicaragua. The capital, Managua, hosts 30 embassies. Several other countries have ambassadors accredited from other regional capitals. Its role as a promoter of Third World causes during the Cold War led ...

** List of Films and Books about Nicaragua ** List of hospitals in Nicaragua ** List of islands of Nicaragua ** List of mammals in Nicaragua ** List of museums in Nicaragua ** List of Nicaraguan Americans ** List of Nicaraguan writers ** List of Nicaraguans ** List of Nicaragua-related topics ** List of players from Nicaragua in Major League Baseball ** List of political parties in Nicaragua ** List of radio stations in Nicaragua ** List of rivers of Nicaragua ** List of schools in Nicaragua ** List of shopping malls in Nicaragua **

List of volcanoes in Nicaragua This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Nicaragua. Volcanoes See also * Central America Volcanic Arc * List of volcanoes in Costa Rica * List of volcanoes in El Salvador * List of volcanoes in Guatemala * List of volcanoes ...

** Outline of Nicaragua **

Universities in Nicaragua The oldest institution of higher education in Nicaragua is the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, which was founded in León in 1812, during the Spanish colonial period. In Nicaragua, there are ten core public and private non-profit un ...

* Literature of Nicaragua * Lorenzo Guerrero Gutiérrez * Los Doce * Luis Alberto Pérez * Luis Mena * Luis Somoza Debayle * Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women *

Lya Barrioz Lya may refer to: * LYA (airport), an airport serves Luoyang, China * Lya (DC Comics), a fictional character * Lya (given name), a feminine given name * Lyman-alpha line (Lyα), a spectral line of hydrogen. {{Disambig ...

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* Macuá * Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia *

Maderas With a height of , Maderas is the smaller of the two which make up the island of Ometepe, situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America. Unlike Concepción, the other volcano on the island, Maderas has not been active in historical ti ...

Madriz Department Madriz () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1,708 km2 and has a population of 176,920 (2021 estimate). The capital is Somoto. Madriz was created from Nueva Segovia department in August 1936, and named after President Jos� ...

* Magic Channel *

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Managua Department Managua () is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 3,465 km2 and has a population of 1,559,774 (2021 estimate), making it the country's most populated department. The capital is the city of Managua, which is also the capital of N ...

Managua International Airport Augusto C. Sandino International Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Internacional Augusto C. Sandino) or ACS is the main joint civil-military public international airport in Managua, Nicaragua. It is named after Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto ...

* Manuel Fernando Zurita * Manuel Pérez *'' Mar Caribe'' *

Marvin Benard Marvin Larry Benard (born January 20, 1970) is a Nicaraguan former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants. Personal life Benard moved to Los Angeles with his mother and father wh ...

Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement Popular Action Movement - Marxist–Leninist () is a Hoxhaist communist party in Nicaragua that surged out of a split from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the early 1970s. Since 1985 it is officially named the Marxist–Lenini ...

* Masatepe * Masaya Department * Masaya Volcano *

Masaya Masaya () is the capital city of Masaya Department in Nicaragua. It is situated approximately 14 km west of Granada and 31 km southeast of Managua. It is located just east of the Masaya Volcano, an active volcano from which the ...

* Mass media in Nicaragua * Matagalpa Department *

Matagalpa language Matagalpa is an extinct Misumalpan language formerly spoken in the central highlands of Nicaragua. The language became extinct in the 19th century, and only few short wordlists remain. It was closely related to Cacaopera language, Cacaopera. The e ...

Matagalpa Matagalpa () is a city in Nicaragua which is the capital of the department of Matagalpa. The city has a population of 111,258 (2021 estimate),Mateare Mateare is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua. The municipality covers an area of 297 km2 and has an estimated population of 62,027. History Mateare, founded in 1898, is as old as the first cities founded by t ...

* Matiguás *

Mayan cichlid ''Mayaheros urophthalmus'', also known as the Mayan cichlid or Mexican mojarra is a species of cichlid. Taxonomy Previously, this species was a member of the genus ''Cichlasoma'' and the subgeneric section ''Nandopsis''. However, the genus ''Cic ...

* Mercedes Tenorio *

Merritt A. Edson Major General Merritt Austin Edson, Sr. (April 25, 1897 – August 14, 1955), known as "Red Mike", was a general in the United States Marine Corps. Among the decorations he received were the Medal of Honor, two Navy Crosses, the Silver Star, ...

* Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception * Michael Cordúa *

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (February 5, 1933 – June 8, 2017) was an American-born Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September ...

Miguel Larreynaga Miguel Jerónimo Larreinaga y Silva (April 29, 1771 – April 28, 1847) was a Nicaraguan philosopher, humanist, lawyer and poet. He was one of the people who traveled to Spain in 1818 to ask for independence of the Central American Republic ...

* Miguel Obando y Bravo * Military of Nicaragua *

Miskito Miskito may refer to: * Miskito people, ethnic group in Honduras and Nicaragua ** Miskito Sambu, branch of Miskito people with African admixture ** Tawira Miskito, branch of Miskito people of largely indigenous origin * Miskito language, original ...

Miskito Cays The Miskito Cays (Spanish: Cayos Miskitos) are an archipelago with an area of 27 km2 located off shore in the northeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, part of the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The Miskito Cays are composed of 7 ...

Miskito language Miskito ( in the Miskito language) is a Misumalpan language spoken by the Miskito people in northeastern Nicaragua, especially in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and in eastern Honduras. With 700,000 speakers, Miskito is the most ...

* Mogotón * Mombacho * Momotombo *

Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine was a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act ...

Montelimar Beach Montelimar is a beach located on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the Managua Department, department of Managua. Montelimar consists of 3 km of white sand beach. The main tourist attraction is the Barcelo Hotel and Resort. The current locat ...

Montezuma oropendola The Montezuma oropendola (''Psarocolius montezuma'') is a New World tropical icterid bird. It is a resident breeder in the Caribbean coastal lowlands from southeastern Mexico to central Panama, but is absent from El Salvador and southern Guatemal ...

* Morrito *

Mosquito Coast The Mosquito Coast, also known as the Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore, historically included the area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It formed part of the Western Caribbean Zone. It was named after the local Miskit ...

Moyogalpa Moyogalpa () is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Ric ...

* Mozonte * Muelle de los Bueyes, South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region * Multiethnic Indigenist Party * Multiethnic Party for Coast Unity * Mulukuku, North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region * Murra, Nueva Segovia * Museum of Traditions and Legends * Music of Nicaragua *

Muy Muy Muy Muy is a municipality in the Matagalpa department of Nicaragua. The municipality of Muy Muy was named by the Matagalpa people, who were the indigenous group native to the area. In their native language "''muimui''" translates to "the best" ( ...

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Nacatamal A ''nacatamal'' is a traditional dish found in Nicaragua and Honduras similar to the ''tamal'' and to the ''hallaca''. Its name originates from the Nawat language spoken by the Nicarao, which were situated on the Southern Pacific coast of Nicar ...

* Nagarote *

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 ...

* Nandasmo * National Action Party (Nicaragua) * National anthem of Nicaragua * National Assembly of Nicaragua *

National Autonomous University of Nicaragua The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua ( es, link=no, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, UNAN) is the main state-funded public university of Nicaragua. Its main campus is located in Managua. The original campus, UNAN-Leon, is ...

* National Conservative Action *

National Guard (Nicaragua) The National Guard ( es, link=no, Guardia Nacional, otherwise known as ) was a militia and a gendarmerie created in 1925 during the occupation of Nicaragua by the United States. It became notorious for human rights abuses and corruption under t ...

National Opposition Union National Opposition Union ( es, Unión Nacional Opositora, UNO) was a Nicaraguan wide-range coalition of opposition parties formed to oppose president Daniel Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the 1990 election. Its can ...

* National Project * National symbols of Nicaragua *

National System of Protected Areas (Nicaragua) National System of Protected Areas ( Spanish: ''Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas'') SINAP, is the Nicaraguan national parks administrator, and is part of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA). SINAP is entrust ...

* National Unity Movement * New Liberal Party * Nica (toponym) *

* Nicaragua at the 1968 Summer Olympics * Nicaragua at the 1972 Summer Olympics * Nicaragua at the 1976 Summer Olympics * Nicaragua at the 1980 Summer Olympics * Nicaragua at the 1984 Summer Olympics *

Nicaragua at the 1992 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Eight competitors, seven men and one woman, took part in nine events in six sports. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics Me ...

Nicaragua at the 1996 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, United States. Athletics Baseball Men's Team Competition Nicaragua's debut performance at the Olympic baseball tournament resulted in a semifinal run for the t ...

Nicaragua at the 2000 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Athletics Shooting Swimming Taekwondo Weightlifting Men See also *Nicaragua at the 1999 Pan American Games References Official Olympic Reports ...

Nicaragua at the 2004 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Athletics Chinese athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at t ...

* Nicaragua Betrayed *

Nicaragua Canal The Nicaraguan Canal ( es, Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project (also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect th ...

* Nicaragua Christian Academy *

Nicaragua national football team The Nicaragua national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de Nicaragua) represents Nicaragua in men's international football and is controlled by the Nicaraguan Football Federation. Nicaragua achieved its first qualification to a major in ...

* Nicaragua under Mexican rule * Nicaragua v. United States *

Nicaraguan American A Nicaraguan American ( es, nicaragüense-americano, ''nicaragüense-estadounidense'', or ) is an American of Nicaraguan descent. They are also referred to as "nica" or "nicoya". The Nicaraguan American population at the 2010 Census was 348,20 ...

Nicaraguan Campaign Medal The Nicaraguan Campaign Medal is a campaign medal of the United States Navy which was authorized by Presidential Order of Woodrow Wilson on September 22, 1913. A later medal, the Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was authorized by an act of the U ...

Nicaraguan Christian Democratic Union Unión Demócrata Cristiana ( es, Unión Demócrata Cristiana - UDC) is a Nicaraguan political party founded by the center-left Popular Social Christian Party (PPSC) and the center-right Democratic Party of National Confidence (PDCN) in 1992. The ...

* Nicaraguan córdoba *

Nicaraguan Democratic Force The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (', or FDN) was one of the earliest Contra groups, formed on August 11, 1981 in Guatemala City. It was formed to oppose Nicaragua's revolutionary Sandinista government following the 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somo ...

* Nicaraguan Democratic Movement * Nicaraguan diplomatic missions * Nicaraguan fifty-cordoba note * Nicaraguan five hundred-cordoba note * Nicaraguan general election, 2006 * Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment * Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance * Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign * Nicaraguan one hundred-cordoba note *

Nicaraguan Party of the Christian Path Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...

* Nicaraguan peso * Nicaraguan Resistance Party *

Nicaraguan Sign Language Nicaraguan Sign Language (ISN; es, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua) is a form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It is of particular interest to linguists as it off ...

* Nicaraguan Social Christian Party * Nicaraguan Socialist Party * Nicaraguan ten-cordoba note * Nicaraguan twenty-cordoba note * Nicaraguan Workers' Centre * Nicaraguan * Nicaragüense de Aviación (NICA) *

Nicarao (cacique) Nicarao was said to be the name of an indigenous chieftain or cacique who presided over a territory in southwestern Nicaragua during the early 16th century. Based on research done by historians in 2002, it was discovered that his real name was Macui ...

Nicarao people The Nicarao people were a Nahuat-speaking Mesoamerican people who migrated from central and southern Mexico over the course of several centuries from approximately 700 CE onwards. Around 1200 CE, the Nicarao split from the Pipil people and moved ...

* Nicavisión (Canal 12) *

Nicolás Osorno David Nicolás Osorno (died on May 31 1918) was a politician who served as the President of Nicaragua The president of Nicaragua ( es, Presidente de Nicaragua), officially known as the president of the Republic of Nicaragua ( es, Presidente d ...

* Nindirí, Masaya * Nindirí * Niquinomo *

Nora Astorga Nora Josefina Astorga Gadea de Jenkins (10 December 1948 – 14 February 1988) was a Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter in the Nicaraguan Revolution, a lawyer, politician, judge and the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations from 1986 to 1988 ...

* North America *

Nueva Guinea Nueva Guinea () is a town and a municipality in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua. Nueva Guinea was founded in the 1960s and saw significant growth in the early 1970s as the US Peace Corps helped to move families from the ...

* Nueva Segovia * Nutting's flycatcher

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* Occupation of Nicaragua * Ocelot *

Ocotal Ocotal () is the capital of the Nueva Segovia Department in Nicaragua, Central America and the municipal seat of Ocotal Municipality. History The region currently occupied by the city of Ocotal was occupied by different ethnic groups that had pr ...

Olive warbler The olive warbler (''Peucedramus taeniatus'') is a small passerine bird. It is the only member of the genus ''Peucedramus'' and the family Peucedramidae. This species breeds from southern Arizona and New Mexico, USA, south through Mexico to Nica ...

* Omar Cabezas * Omar D'León *

Ometepe Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ''ome'' (two) and ''tepetl'' (mountain), meaning "two mountains". It is the largest island in Lake Nic ...

Operation Gold Operation Gold (also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British) was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1950s to tap into landline communic ...

* Organization of Central American States * Orlando Montenegro Medrano * Oscar Danilo Blandón * Oswaldo Castillo * Outline of Nicaragua

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Palacagüina Palacagüina () is a municipality in the Madriz department of Nicaragua. Palacagüina is a small town; the name comes from the Nahuatl Nahuatl (; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto ...

* Palestinian Nicaraguan *

Palm tanager The palm tanager (''Thraupis palmarum'') is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident breeder from Nicaragua south to Bolivia, Paraguay and southern Brazil. It also breeds on Trinidad and, since 1962, on Tobago. In Trinidad and T ...

* Palo de Mayo * Pantasma * Partido de Nicoya *

Party for Citizen Action The Citizens' Action Party ( - PAC) is a Nicaraguan political party founded by the former legislative representative of the Sandinista Renovation Movement The Sandinista Renovation Movement (''Movimiento Renovador Sandinista'' or MRS, in Spanish) ...

* Patricio Rivas * Pearl Cays *

Pearl kite The pearl kite (''Gampsonyx swainsonii'') is a very small raptor found in open savanna habitat adjacent to deciduous woodland. It is the only member of the genus ''Gampsonyx''. The scientific name commemorates the English naturalist William Swai ...

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro (29 June 1818 in Granada – 7 June 1890 in Granada) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1875 to 1 March 1879 and a member of the conservative dominant oligarchy Chamorro family. Background He was a son o ...

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of '' La Prensa'', the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a ...

* Pinolero *

Pinolillo Pinolillo is a sweet cornmeal and cacao-based traditional drink in Nicaragua, also consumed in Costa Rica. It is made of ground toasted corn and a small amount of cacao. It can be mixed with water or soy milk, and served sweetened or unsweetened ...

* Pio Quinto * Plain chachalaca * Plain-brown woodcreeper * Plus Ultra Brigade * Political history of Nicaragua * Politics of Nicaragua *

Polytechnic University of Nicaragua The Polytechnic University of Nicaragua ( es, Universidad Politecnica de Nicaragua, UPOLI) is a university in Managua, Nicaragua. It was founded in 1967. Organization The university has six schools: * School of Administration, Commerce and Finan ...

* Poneloya, Nicaragua * Popular Conservative Alliance *

Popular Social Christian Party The Popular Social Christian Party ( - PPSC), was a Nicaraguan political party. It was an offshoot of the Social Christian Party formed in the late 1970s when Manolo Morales led schism from the PSC. The party supported the FSLN against the Somoza ...

Porfi Altamirano Porfirio Altamirano Ramírez (born May 17, 1952), nicknamed ''"El Guajiro"'' is a Nicaraguan former professional baseball right-handed middle relief pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies (1982–83) ...

* Posoltega, Nicaragua * Potosí, Rivas * President of Nicaragua *

Primera División de Nicaragua The Liga Primera de Nicaragua is the top division of football in Nicaragua, organized by the Federación Nicaragüense de Fútbol, it was created in 1933. It is played in two parts, Torneo de Apertura from August through November and Torneo de ...

* Prinzapolka *

Protected areas of Nicaragua The protected areas of Nicaragua are areas that have natural beauty or significance and are protected by Nicaragua. Nicaragua has 78 protected areas that cover 22,422 km2, about 17.3% of the nations landmass. The National System of Protected Area ...

* Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare * Pueblo Nuevo, Estelí * Puerto Cabezas Airport *

Puerto Cabezas Puerto Cabezas (; en, Bragman's Bluff; miq, Bilwi) is a municipality and city in Nicaragua. It is the capital of Miskito nation in the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region. The municipality and the entire region are native American lands. ...

* Puerto Morazán * Puerto Sandino

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* Quesillo * Quezalguate *

Quilalí Quilalí is a town and a municipality in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua. Community Background Situated in a high mountainous region of Nicaragua lies Quilalí, the remote, large municipal head in the department of Nueva Segovia. It i ...

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Rail transport in Nicaragua As of 2012, there is no rail transport in Nicaragua. All traffic has been suspended since September 2001, ending several decades of a steady decline. In the past, there were gauge railroads on the Pacific coast, connecting major cities. A priv ...

* Rafaela Herrera *

Rama language Rama is one of the indigenous languages of the Chibchan family spoken by the Rama people on the island of Rama Cay and south of lake Bluefields on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Other indigenous languages of this region include Miskito and ...

Rama people The Rama are an indigenous people living on the eastern coast of Nicaragua. Since the start of European colonization, the Rama population has declined as a result of disease, conflict, and loss of territory. In recent years, however, the Rama p ...

* Rancho Grande * Rationing in Nicaragua * Real Estelí *

Real Madriz Real Madriz Fútbol Club is a Nicaraguan football team playing at the top level. It is based in Somoto. History On 13 April 2021, the club under Honduran coach Hector Medina reached its first Copa Nicaragua and first top tier league final afte ...

North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region The North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region is one of two autonomous regions in Nicaragua. It was created by the Autonomy Statute of 7 September 1987. It covers an area of 33,106 km2 and has a population of 541,189 (2021 estimate). It is the ...

South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region The South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region is one of two autonomous regions in Nicaragua. It covers an area of and has a population of 420,935 (2021 estimate). The capital is Bluefields. Bordering the Caribbean Sea, it contains part of the re ...

Religion in Nicaragua Religion in Nicaragua is predominantly Christian and forms a significant part of the culture of the country as well as its constitution. Religious freedom and religious tolerance is promoted by both the Nicaraguan government and the constitution ...

René Schick Gutiérrez René (''born again'' or ''reborn'' in French) is a common first name in French-speaking, Spanish-speaking, and German-speaking countries. It derives from the Latin name Renatus. René is the masculine form of the name ( Renée being the feminin ...

* Republic of Nicaragua ''( República de Nicaragua)'' * Revolutionary Unity Movement *

Revolutionary Workers' Party (Nicaragua) The Workers' Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores, PRT) is a left-wing Nicaraguan political party with Marxist and Trotskyist tendencies founded 1971 by students including Bonifacio Miranda. Originally a broad Marx ...

Ricardo Mayorga Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez (born October 3, 1973) is a Nicaraguan professional boxer and former mixed martial artist. In boxing he is a former two-weight world champion, having held the unified WBA (Unified), WBC, ''Ring'' magazine, and li ...

* Rigoberto Cruz *

Rigoberto López Pérez Rigoberto López Pérez (May 13, 1929 – September 21, 1956) was a Nicaraguan poet, artist and composer. He assassinated Anastasio Somoza García, the longtime dictator of Nicaragua. On September 21, 1981, 25 years after his death, the Sandin ...

* Río Blanco, Matagalpa * Río San Juan (department) *

Rivas (department) Rivas () is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,162 km2 and has a population of 183,611 (2021 estimate). The department's capital is the city of Rivas. Overview Rivas is known for its fertile soil and beautif ...

* Rivas * Roberto Sacasa * Róger Calero *

Róger Pérez de la Rocha Róger Pérez de la Rocha (; born 27 March 1949 in Managua, Nicaragua 7 Días On Line Edición 542 del 30 de Junio al 6 de Julio del 2008) is a Nicaraguan painter and portrait artist. Early life Róger Pérez de la Rocha’s parents were Teresa ...

* Role of women in Nicaraguan Revolution * Roman Catholicism in Nicaragua * Roman Gonzalez *

Roosevelt Corollary In the history of United States foreign policy, the Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuelan crisis of 1902–1903. ...

* Rosario Murillo * Rosendo Alvarez *Rosendo Chamorro *Rosita Airport *Rota (volcano) *Roy Geiger *Rubén Darío *Rufous motmot

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*Salomón Ibarra Mayorga *Salvador Machado *''"Salve a ti, Nicaragua"'' *San Carlos, Río San Juan *San Cristóbal volcano *San Dionisio, Matagalpa *San Fernando, Nueva Segovia *San Francisco de Cuapa *San Francisco del Norte *San Francisco Libre *San Isidro, Matagalpa *San Jorge, Rivas *San José de Achuapa *San José de Bocay *San José de Cusmapa *San José de los Remates *San Juan de Limay *San Juan de Nicaragua *San Juan de Oriente *San Juan del Río Coco *San Juan del Sur, Rivas *San Juan del Sur *San Juan River (Nicaragua) *San Lorenzo, Boaco *San Lucas, Madriz *San Marcos, Carazo *San Marcos, Nicaragua *San Miguelito, Río San Juan *San Nicolás, Estelí *San Pedro Airport, Nicaragua *San Pedro de Lóvago *San Pedro del Norte *San Rafael del Norte, Jinotega *San Rafael del Norte *San Rafael del Sur *San Ramón, Matagalpa *San Sebastián de Yalí *Sandinismo *Sandinista Ideologies *Sandinista National Liberation Front *Sandinista Popular Army *Sandinista Renovation Movement *Sandinista Workers' Centre *Santa Lucía, Boaco *Santa María de Pantasma *Santa María, Nueva Segovia *Santa Rosa del Peñón *Santa Teresa, Carazo *Santo Domingo, Chontales *Santo Tomás del Norte *Santo Tomás, Chontales *Scorpión FC *Sébaco *Sebastián Uriza *Semilla de Jicaro *Sergio Ramírez *Shawn Hasani Martin *Silvestre Selva *Sistema Nacional de Televisión (Nicaragua) *Sistema Sandinista de Televisión *Siuna Airport *Siuna *Smedley Butler *Snowcap *Social Conservative Party *Social Democratic Party (Nicaragua) *Solentiname Islands *Somotillo *Somoto Canyon National Monument *Somoto, Madriz *Somoto *Somoza *Sopa de Mondongo *Southern rough-winged swallow *Spanish colonization of the Americas *Spanish conquest of Nicaragua *Spanish language *Sumo languages, Sumo language *Supreme Electoral Council (Nicaragua), Supreme Electoral Council

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*T-Bone *Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío *Telenica (Canal 8) *Telenorte Canal 35 *Televicentro (Canal 2) *Telica *Telica (volcano) *Telpaneca *Terrabona *Territorial disputes of Nicaragua *Teustepe *The Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan Revolution *The Freedom Fighter's Manual *Thelma Rodríguez *Ticuantepe *Timeline of Colombia-Nicaragua relations *Tipitapa *Tip-Top Restaurant *Tiscapa Lagoon Natural Reserve *Tisma *Tola, Rivas *Tomás Borge *Tomás Martínez *Tony Melendez *Torombolo *Totogalpa *Tourism in Nicaragua *Transportation in Nicaragua *Tropical Storm Bret (1993) *Tuma-La Dalia *Turquoise-browed motmot

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*United Fruit Company *United Nations founding member state 1945 *United Nicaraguan Opposition *United States embargo against Nicaragua *United States embargo against Nicaragua *Unity Alliance *Universidad Centroamericana *Universidad Nacional Agraria *Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería *

*UNO-96 Alliance *Up with the Republic *Uriel Molina

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*Vaho *Vicente Padilla *Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes *Vigorón *Villa El Carmen *Villanueva, Chinandega *Villa Sandino *Violeta Chamorro *Viva Managua Movement *VMA-231 *Volcanoes of Nicaragua *Voseo

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*Waslala *Waspam *Waspam Airport *Water supply and sanitation in Nicaragua *Whiskered screech owl *White-shouldered tanager * *Wildlife of Nicaragua *William Walker (soldier) *Witness for Peace *Wiwilí de Jinotega *Wiwilí de Nueva Segovia *Women and the Armed Struggle in Nicaragua

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*Xavier Chamorro Cardenal

Y

*Yalagüina *YATAMA

Z

*Zapatera *Zelaya (Nicaragua)

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