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  Nicaragua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicaragua housesThe unexpected result was subject to a great deal of analysis and comment, and was attributed by commentators such as Noam Chomsky and S. Brian Wilson to the Contra threats to continue the war if the Sandinistas retained power, the general war-weariness of the Nicaraguan population, and extensive U.S. funding of the opposition.
Politics of Nicaragua takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nicaragua is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
Nicaragua's pre-Colombian population consisted of the Nahuatl-speaking Nicarao people of the west after whom the country is named, and six other ethnic groups including the Miskitos, Ramas and Sumos along the Caribbean coast.
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 Nicaragua, hotels, cars, information, tips
Nicaragua is one of the hemisphere's poorest countries, with low per capita income, flagging socio-economic indicators, and huge external debt.
Nicaragua suffers from persistent trade and budget deficits and a high debt-service burden, leaving it highly dependent on foreign assistance--as much as 25% of GDP in 2001.
Nicaragua is primarily an agricultural country, but construction, mining, fisheries, and general commerce also have been expanding during the last few years.
www.flights-and-hotels.com /nicaragua/index.htm   (1163 words)

  
 Nicaragua - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The country's name is a portmanteau of Nicarao, the name of the Nahuatl-speaking tribe which inhabited the shores of Lago Nicaragua before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the Spanish word Agua, meaning water, due to the presence of the large lakes Lago Nicaragua and Lago Managua in the region.
Nicaragua offered assistance during World War 2, and was the first country in the world to ratify the UN Charter.
Nicaragua's rum is renowned as among the best in Latin America, and its tobacco and beef are also well regarded.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Nicaraguan   (2348 words)

  
 UNICEF - At a glance: Nicaragua - The big picture
Nicaragua has a population of 5.1 million and an annual population growth rate of 2.7 per cent; 53 per cent of the population is under 18 years of age.
Nicaragua's main challenge is to overcome inequity and poverty, which affect children and women most severely.
Nicaragua is the third poorest country in the Americas, with a per capita gross national product of $453.
www.unicef.org /infobycountry/nicaragua.html   (674 words)

  
 Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nicaragua, which derives its name from the chief of the area's leading Indian tribe at the time of the Spanish Conquest, was first settled by the Spanish in 1522.
For the next century, Nicaragua's politics were dominated by the competition for power between the Liberals, who were centered in the city of León, and the Conservatives, centered in Granada.
Nicaragua is named for one of its original inhabitants, Chief Nicarao, who ruled part of the area at the time the Spanish arrived in Central America.
www.questconnect.org /ca_nicaragua.htm   (841 words)

  
 Nicaragua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nicaragua offered token assistance during World War 2, and was the first country in the world to ratify the UN Charter.
Nicaragua has seen U.S. military interventions and lengthy periods of military dictatorship, the most infamous being the rule of the Somoza family (supported by successive U.S. governments) for much of the early 20th century.
Nicaragua has historically been a literary treasure in poetry of the Hispanic world with internationally renowned contributors such as Ruben Darío who is widely acclaimed as the Father of Modernism and Prince of Spanish Literature.
www.educhy.com /index.php/Nicaragua   (3273 words)

  
 U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua - Economic and Commercial Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nicaragua has a history of close political, economic, cultural, and family ties to the United States, interrupted by a decade of strained relations with the Sandinista government during the 1980s.
Nicaragua has had a democratic government since 1990 and during that time has had free and fair elections at the national and local levels, with orderly transfers of power.
Nicaragua is divided into fifteen departments in the Pacific and central parts of the country, and two large autonomous regions on the Atlantic coast.
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 Nicaragua - Gurupedia
Colonized by Spain in 1524, Nicaragua achieved independence as an independent state in 1821 and joined the United Provinces of Central America.
Nicaragua is a constitutional republic with an elected
The unicameral legislative body is the National Assembly, which has 93 members elected for 5-year terms.
www.gurupedia.com /n/ni/nicaragua.htm   (191 words)

  
 List of political parties in Nicaragua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political parties in Nicaragua lists political parties in Nicaragua.
Nicaragua has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.
Nicaragua  • Panama  • Saint Kitts and Nevis  • Saint Lucia  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  • Trinidad and Tobago  • United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Nicaragua   (229 words)

  
 Departments of Nicaragua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1986, the new constitution established the Charter of Autonomy (limited self-government) for the former department of Zelaya, comprising the entire eastern half of the country.
The department was divided into two autonomous regions (communities).
The Charter of Autonomy is largely based on the model used by Spain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Departments_of_Nicaragua   (131 words)

  
 NICARAGUA
To attribute the continuing strife within Nicaragua to economic differences or to the hatred of politicians out of power for those controlling the nation would be to ignore the spirit of localismo.
Throughout the 30 years of domestic stability, Nicaragua lived up to the terms of the agreement.<11> Strange as it may seem, it was the Conservatives, members of the party in power, who triggered the revolution which ended this era of peace.
Thoroughly weary of a war that promised to be the bloodiest in Nicaragua's history, congress reconvened, reinstated the Liberal members expelled by Chamorro, and chose Adolfo Diaz, Chief Executive during the intervention of 1912, to serve as President until the 1928 election.
1stbattalion3rdmarines.com /war-related/NICARAGUA.htm   (22186 words)

  
 San Juan - Characterization of the Climate, Climate Variability, and Socio-Economic Conditions in the San Juan River ...
As described in the reports of the PROCUENCA-SAN JUAN project, the SJRB is located between 10º and 12º 30’ north latitude and between 83º 30’ and 86º 15’ west longitude and includes southeast Nicaragua and northeast Costa Rica (Map 1).
Its boundaries are defined by the basin of Lake Nicaragua and its tributaries, the San Juan River and its tributaries, and the allied coastal zone.
Fifty-five percent of the population is rural and, although scattered unevenly throughout the basin (in part, because of the number and size of the basin’s parks and reserves), the population density in Nicaragua is 46/km².
www.oas.org /sanjuan/english/documents/dialogue/dialogue/01-characterization/04-SanJuan.html   (519 words)

  
 Nicaragua News Updates
Insulza had been in Nicaragua for four days attempting to fulfill an OAS mandate to bring the parties--the administration of President Enrique Bolaños and the Liberals and the Sandinistas which dominate the legislature--back to a serious tri-partite national dialogue.
Nicaragua, he said, has the greatest potential in Central America for renewable energy in all its forms, including hydroelectric, geothermic, wind, solar and biomass.
CAFTA Passage in Nicaragua Doubtful -- While President Bolaños was with the other Central American and Dominican Republic presidents in the US licking the boots of their transnational masters by promoting the Dominican Republic and Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), passage of the trade agreement by Nicaragua faded further into the distance.
www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/nicaragua/NewsUpdates.html   (1869 words)

  
 Nicaraga in the Netherlands and at the Internet
You can find Nicaragua in Central-America, in the north it is bound by Honduras, in the east by the Caribian sea, in the south by Costa Rica and in the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The fl and the indian population live mainly in the east of Nicaragua.
Nicaragua consist of 15 departments and 2 regio's autonomous.When you click here you will go to a map where you can find them all.When you click on a department it will enlarged.
home.planet.nl /~patrilak/english.html   (321 words)

  
 Nicaragua, Landmine Monitor Report 2003
Nicaragua is expected to be named co-rapporteur of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance at the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in September 2003.
Nicaragua is a State Party to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), but did not attend the Fourth Annual Conference of States Parties in December 2002 or submit an annual Article 13 report.
Nicaragua’s IMSMA database is housed in the Nicaraguan offices of OAS PADCA and is comprised of information provided by the Army’s demining units, the Ministries of Defense and Health, the National Center for Technical Assistance and Orthotics (CENAPRORTO), the IADB, OAS, ICRC, and NGOs.
www.icbl.org /lm/2003/nicaragua.html   (5523 words)

  
 Nicaragua - WikiGadugi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Image:Granada street 1.JPG Much of Nicaragua's early politics following independence was characterized by the rivalry between the liberal élite of León and the conservative élite of Granada.
The country faced a violent insurgency by the Contras, significant elements of which were mercenary armies organized, trained and funded illegally by the United States (The United States and the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Map of Nicaragua showing department boundaries At approximately 129,500 square kilometers (50,000 sq mi)—roughly the size of the state of New York, Nicaragua contains 7% of the world's biodiversity and the second largest rainforest in the Americas.
en.wikigadugi.org /wiki/Nicaragua   (2794 words)

  
 NDI - National Democratic Institute
Nicaragua is locked in an impasse between the country's main political forces, including President Enrique Bolaños, the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC) and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN).
ET has since emerged as the most broad-based civic group in Nicaragua, becoming a symbol of pluralism and national reconciliation, and contributing to raising the standard of elections in Nicaragua.
These trainings focused on election-day procedures, the legal role of party pollwatchers and codes of conduct, and resulted in an agreement between parties publicly committing their pollwatchers to behave responsibly on election-day.
www.ndi.org /worldwide/lac/nicaragua/nicaragua.asp   (572 words)

  
 Nicaragua Departments
For Nicaragua, it replaces Zelaya department with two autonomous regions named Atlántico Norte and Atlántico Sur.
Nicaragua is divided into fifteen departamentos (departments) and two regiones autónomas (sing.
Department: except RAAN and RAAS, which are autonomous regions.
www.statoids.com /uni.html   (596 words)

  
 United Nations Capital Development Fund
The revolutions and counter-revolutions in Nicaragua ended more than a decade ago, yet Nicaragua is still struggling to raise the living standards of its population and rebuild its shattered economy.
In the wake of the revolution and subsequent civil conflicts, Nicaragua's economy declined precipitously.
Though Nicaragua was able to slowly rebuild its economy during the 1990s, it was slammed hard by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and is still trying to recover.
www.uncdf.org /english/countries/nicaragua/index.php   (801 words)

  
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Nicaragua suffered the same ills which had proved fatal to the Central American Republic.
In the summer of 1855, Walker arrived in Nicaragua with the first contingent of "colonists." The fighting that followed was directed almost exclusively by the tiny American.
Nicaragua was preparing for the 1916 presidential election.
www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/usmchist/nicar.txt   (22503 words)

  
 Nicaragua Network - NicaNet - Working for Social Justice in Nicaragua
The Nicaragua Network is a national network of local committees which has worked for 27 years to change US government policy toward Nicaragua.
The Nicaragua Network provides information and organizing tools to a network of 200 solidarity, sister city, and peace and justice committees across the U.S. Publications include the Nicaragua Network Hotline, the Nicaragua News Service, the Nicaragua Monitor, and occasional monographs.
The Nicaragua Network is compiling remembrances of people whose lives were changed by their visits to and involvement in the Sandinista experiment.
www.nicanet.org   (1613 words)

  
 Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign: Partners
SOPPEXCCA was established in the Jinotega department to provide business and organisational support for small coffee producers in improving their social and economic conditions and strengthening their human rights and self-esteem.
At the present time, probably 80% of Nicaragua's population is effectively disenfranchised, certainly as to a comprehensive health care service.
While it remains true that there are still clinics and even hospitals technically "free" dispersed throughout the population, the reality is that even the most basic treatment will involve the average family in costs which are insupportable.
www.nicaraguasc.org.uk /partners/index.htm   (1763 words)

  
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(in Nicaragua, a department is a state or province)
Nicaragua, located in Central America, has an extention of almost
Nicaragua's TravelNet - Solar Tours - Tours Nicaragua - Publicar - Ediciones Lupita - il Postino - Ideay.net.ni - La Prensa - El Nuevo Diario and other websites.
www.geocities.com /darvivasi/Nicaragua/Cities   (339 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Nicaragua
The number of languages listed for Nicaragua is 10.
Zalaya Department, North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) with a concentration in the city of Puerto Cabeza, and towns and villages of Prinzapolka, Tronquera, San Carlos (Río Coco), Waspam, Leimus, Bocana de Paiwas, Karawala, Sangnilaya, Wasla, Sisin, Rosita, Bonanza, Siuna, Bihmuna, and all along the Río Coco area.
The ethnic group is in the Central highlands, Matagalpa and Jinotega departments, and in Honduras, El Paraíso department.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Nicaragua   (277 words)

  
 Metro-Nica - Real Estate in Nicaragua
Located in the central region of Nicaragua, the department of Esteli's name, according to historians, "means River of Obsidian".
Esteli is one of the richest departments of Nicaragua.
Its location and excellent climate make it the commercial hub of the Segovias.
www.metro-nica.com /nicaragua/esteli.html   (122 words)

  
 Equal Exchange - Profile of CECOCAFEN in Nicaragua
Equal Exchange - Profile of CECOCAFEN in Nicaragua
Coffee farming has a long tradition in the Matagalpa and Jinotega departments of Nicaragua, dating back to the mid-1800s.
The region's humid tropical forest climate, rich volcanic soil, and lush vegetation all contribute to the unique flavor of its internationally renowned coffee.
www.equalexchange.com /profile-of-cecocafen-in-nicaragua   (434 words)

  
 HIOX FREE JavaSCRIPT - Form select option Nicaragua Departments & Regions or Divisions
Download the code, which will list the names of Nicaraguan Departments & Regions or divisions as select option.
Two methods of coding are displayed one using javascript array and other the simple plain html option list.
Just copy the code in to your pages to list Nicaraguan Departments & Regions.
www.hscripts.com /scripts/JavaScript/option/nicaragua-departments.php   (182 words)

  
 Nicaragua - City Population - Cities, Towns & Provinces - Statistics & Map
Nicaragua - City Population - Cities, Towns & Provinces - Statistics & Map
The departments of Nicaragua and all cities of more than 10,000 inhabitants.
(2005) Computations based on data of the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos, Nicaragua.
www.citypopulation.de /Nicaragua.html   (62 words)

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