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Managua ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnaɣwa]) is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the largest cities in Central America. Located on the shores of Lake Managua, the city had an estimated population of 1,055,247 as of 2020, [4] and a population of 1,401,687 [4] in its metropolitan area. [7]
History. The Miss Nicaragua beauty pageant was the most important pageant for women in Nicaragua. The first Señorita Nicaragua was held in 1955. The pageant was hosting by Club de Leones, Club 20–30 and Club Terraza those were some of the most important clubs in Managua during the 1950s. The first Miss Nicaragua was Rosa Argentina Lacayo (R ...
t. e. The 15 departments and 2 autonomous regions of Nicaragua are divided into 153 municipalities. [1] The formation and dissolution of municipalities is governed by the Law of Municipalities (in Spanish: Ley No.40 - Ley de Municipalidades ), drafted and approved by the National Assembly on July 2. 1988. The municipalities are responsible for ...
La Managua Airport ( IATA: XQP, ICAO: MRQP) is an airport approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) east of the Pacific coastal city of Quepos, Costa Rica, serving this city as well as the Manuel Antonio National Park and other tourist attractions in the central part of Puntarenas Province. The airport is named for the La Managua barrio where it is ...
The San Juan River ( Spanish: Río San Juan ), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a 192-kilometre (119 mi) river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea. A large section of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica runs on the southern bank of the river. It was part, with the lake, of a proposed route for a ...
Granada is located along the coast of the Lake Nicaragua (a.k.a. Lake Cocibolca), the world's twentieth largest lake. Granada is the capital city of the Department of Granada, which borders Boaco and Managua to the north, Masaya and Carazo to the east and Rivas to the south. Within the same department, the River Tipitapa which connects the Lake ...
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300,000 displaced [4] The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44 a.m. local time (06:29:44 UTC) on December 23 near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum MSK intensity of IX ( Destructive ). The epicenter was 28 km (17 mi) northeast of the city centre and a depth of about 10 km (6.2 mi).