Diria is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

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department of

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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 San Juan de Oriente is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7, ...

and the Laguna de Apoyo, to the south with the municipality of Nandaime, to the east with the municipalities of Diriomo and

and to the west with the municipalities of

Niquinohomo Niquinohomo () is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. It is home to the oldest extant church in Nicaragua; Church of Saint Ann (Iglesia de Santa Ana). The city's patron saint, as well as the birthplace of Augusto César Sandino ...

and La Paz de Oriente. The municipal seat is located 64 kilometers from the capital of

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. 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 communities that already existed before the time of the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua. The priest Fray Francisco de Bobadilla visited and described the place in 1528. At the country's first census in 1548, Diriá had 1,346 inhabitants. Patrick S. Werner, Ethnohistory of early colonial Nicaragua: Demography and economiendas of the Indian communities. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, The University at Albany, 2000. Its name means "Hill or Height" in the Mangue language, which corresponds to the geographical location of its first settlers located in the vicinity of the Laguna de Apoyo.

Demographics

Diriá has a current population of 7,261 inhabitants. Of the total population, 51% are men and 49% are women. Almost 62% of the population lives in urban areas.

Nature and climate

Diria is located on the south side of the Laguna de Apoyo, of which there is a beautiful view from the Diria Viewpoint. From there, a narrow and winding path goes down to the beach.Juan Echánove and Joaquim Rabella, The guide to Nicaragua, 3rd edition, Editorial Hispamer, 2011. The municipality has a

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...

, with rainfall that ranges between 1200 and 1400 mm, characterized by a good distribution throughout the year, its

temperature Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness. Temperature is measurement, measured with a thermometer. It reflects the average kinetic energy of the vibrating and colliding atoms making ...

average reaches 27°C, which defines

climate Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years. More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years. Some of the meteoro ...

as semi-humid.

References

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