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	NICARAGUA TOURS, TRAVEL & HOLIDAYS - WHY VISIT NICARAGUA?
		Nicaragua has unique forms of dance, music and festivals, but most of all Nicaragua's culture breaths poetry, the unrivaled national passion, which has produced some of the most important poets in the history of the Spanish language.
		Nicaragua's food is amongst the finest in Latin America with a premium put on fresh ingredients and generous servings.
		The thorny spine of volcanoes that run from Nicaragua's northwestern-most point to the dual-volcano island of Ometepe in the great lake of Nicaragua includes countless beautiful cones, 14 of which are filled with crystal clear crater lakes and 7 of which are active.
	www.toursnicaragua.com /why_visit.html (505 words)

	Nicaragua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		About 9 percent of Nicaragua's population is fl or afronicaragüense, with the fl population concentrated on the country's eastern coast.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicaragua (1979 words)

	Travel, tours and tourism in Nicaragua Central America.
		Nicaragua’s exuberant geography is a land of poets and artists.
		Nicaragua's climate is tropical, with the distinctive rainy and dry seasons typical to the region.
		Nicaragua has gotten off to a late start in terms of protecting its natural resources and it was not until 1990 that protected areas have received planning and support.
	www.morgansrock.com /nicaragua-info.html (1694 words)

	Nicaragua: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		Nicaragua is mountainous in the west, with fertile valleys.
		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.
		Nicaragua remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107839.html (874 words)

	Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		About 9 per cent of Nicaragua's population is fl, and the fl population is concentrated on the east coast.
		Nicaragua's pre-Colombian population consisted of the Nahuatl-speaking Nicarao people of the west, and six ethnic groups including the Miskitos, Ramas and Sumos in the Caribbean region.
		The people of western Nicaragua are mostly Mestizos, and Spanish is invariably their first language.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nicaragua.htm (1275 words)

	1Up Travel : Nicaragua Geography and Facts
		Nicaragua, approximately the size of New York state, is the largest country in Central America (see Glossary).
		Lago de Nicaragua in turn drains into the Río San Juan (the boundary between Nicaragua and Costa Rica), which flows through the southern part of the rift lowlands to the Caribbean Sea.
		During the rainy season, eastern Nicaragua is subject to heavy flooding along the upper and middle reaches of all major rivers.
	www.1uptravel.com /geography/nicaragua.html (1578 words)

	Nicaragua (02/05)
		Nicaragua is a constitutional democracy with executive, legislative, judicial, and electoral branches of government.
		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.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1850.htm (3668 words)

	USGS Hurricane Mitch Program -Nicaragua
		Economy—overview: Prior to Hurricane Mitch in the fall of 1998, Nicaragua had been pursuing a number of impressive economic reforms and had begun to shed the legacy of a decade of civil war and economic mismanagement by posting strong annual growth numbers.
		Nicaragua sustained approximately $1 billion in damages and will probably see GDP growth slow by at least one percentage point in 1999.
		Thus, we are planning to study the causes and consequences of the landslides that did occur, the likelihood of future landslides both in selected areas affected by Hurricane Mitch and in a selected populated area to the south, and what mitigation efforts might be possible in these areas.
	mitchnts1.cr.usgs.gov /country/nicaragua.html (1257 words)

	THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF NICARAGUA. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		The coast of Nicaragua was sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1502, but the first Spanish expedition, under Gil Gonzalez Davila, did not arrive until 1522; it established several Spanish settlements.
		Nicaragua was governed by Pedrarias Davila from 1526 to 1531, but later in the century, following a period of intense rivalry and civil war among the Spanish conquerors, it was incorporated into the captaincy-general of Guatemala.
		Nicaragua joined the Organization of American States in 1948 and the Organization of Central American States, created to solve common Central American problems, in 1951.
	www.essaysample.com /essay/002719.html (1060 words)

	NICARAGUA HOLIDAY & TRAVEL GUIDE - NICARAGUA VISITOR GUIDE
		NICARAGUA GEOGRAPHY: The Pacific basin is blessed with a spine of more than 50 volcanoes that run from the northern Pacific Gulf of Fonseca, south into Lake Nicaragua.
		According to Interpol Nicaragua is home to less than half the crime of the USA and a quarter of the crime in England or Germany.
		Nicaragua is one of the safest places to visit in the Americas thanks to her unique people.
	www.toursnicaragua.com /travel_guide.html (1525 words)

	Facts About Nicaragua
		The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century.
		Nicaragua, one of the hemisphere's poorest countries, faces low per capita income, massive unemployment, and huge external debt.
		Nicaragua has undertaken significant economic reforms that are expected to help the country qualify for more than $4 billion in debt relief under HIPC in early 2004.
	worldfacts.us /Nicaragua.htm (847 words)

	Latin Business Chronicle: Nicaragua Country Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nicaragua has the poorest economy in Central America and the second-poorest in Latin America after Haiti.
		That, coupled with a politicized judiciary and the high level of corruption, led Freedom House to classify Nicaragua as "Partly Free" in its latest survey of Freedom in the World.
		As a result, Nicaragua ranked third on a list of the 17 worst countries in Latin America.
	www.latinbusinesschronicle.com /countries/nicaragua/index.htm (826 words)

	A Nation's Character and its Geographic Terrain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nicaragua is in the heart of Central America.
		There are two freshwater lakes in all of Central America and they are both in Nicaragua, they are Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua.
		There are murals throughout Nicaragua, but most of them are in the city San Carlos, the Island of Solentiname, the capital Managua and the city of Estelí.
	www.stanford.edu /group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_sp/geography (181 words)

	Geography (from Nicaragua) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Geography describes and analyzes the spatial variations in physical, biological, and human phenomena that occur on the surface of the globe and treats their interrelationships and their significant regional patterns.
		Located midway across Central America, Nicaragua, with about 50,000 square miles (130,000 square kilometers), is the largest in area but one of the most sparsely populated nations of the region.
		Whereas physical geography is an Earth science concerned with places, social geography is concerned with the people in the places.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=214488 (808 words)

	Geography of Nicaragua Definition / Geography of Nicaragua Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is bounded on the south by Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, to the west by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, to the north by the Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, and to the east by the Lesser Antilles....
		Extending approximately 15,500 km (9,600 mi) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the icy margins of Antarctica's Ross Sea in the south, the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 deg N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19,800 km (12,300 mi) from Indonesia to the coast of Colomb...
		geography of Nicaragua is a goldmine of information on land.
	www.elresearch.com /Geography_of_Nicaragua (344 words)

	Maps of Nicaragua 1965-1987
		Mapa de Nicaragua, escala 1:1 000 000 : con text en castellano, inglés y alemán = Map of Nicaragua, scale 1:1 000 000 : with text in Spanish, English, and German = Landkarte von Nicaragua, Massstab 1:1 000 000 : mit Text in spanisch, englisch und deutsch / Instituto Geográfico Nacional.
		Nicaragua poblacion: densidad de poblacion, urbana y rural = Nicaragua population: density of population, urban and rural / Ejecutado por AID Resources Inventory Center, Corps of Engineers.
		Nicaragua population: density of population, urban and rural.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /EART/nicaragua.html (5644 words)

	Swindon Ocotal Link, Geography and Environment of Nicaragua
		Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America and is the same size as England and Wales.
		Nicaragua’s eastern tropical lowlands are very different from the rest of Nicaragua.
		Nicaragua has also suffered from hurricanes, including hurricane Fifi in 1974; hurricane Alleta in 1982, and hurricane Juana hit in 1988, causing many deaths, the destruction of property and severely damaging crops.
	www.swindonocotal-link.org /SOLn4.htm (587 words)

	Nicaragua, Geography, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
		Honduras borders Nicaragua in the north, and it is bordered by Costa Rica on the south.
		The main ethnic group in Nicaragua is the mixture of European and Indian decent, or Mestizoes.
		The national sport in Nicaragua is baseball, and it is the most popular one, followed by soccer, basketball and football.
	www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Geography/Nicaragua.shtml (1607 words)

	Tourism and Travel to Nicaragua: Granada, San Juan del Sur, Managua
		The lodge is strategically located to the south of Nicaragua’s most important tourism destination Granada and just north of the Costa Rican boarder.
		Costa Rican’s that are planning to cross the border from Costa Rica into Nicaragua with their car, must first obtain permission to leave the country.
		Entering Nicaragua with your car will cost $10.00 USD registration fee paid at the bank located inside the new main building after first registering your car at the appropriate window.
	www.morgansrock.com /travel_logistics.html (1439 words)

	Ocotal, Nicaragua
		Ocotal is a beautiful city in Nicaragua, Central America of about 38,000.
		Nicaragua is generally considered to be the poorest country in the Americas.
		This information was copied with permission of the site's author from Helping the Poor in Ocotal, Nicaraguawhich is a site about Ocotal and a non-profit micro-credit there for women who own micro-businesses, such as tortilla-making or a tiny convenience store in the house.
	creekin.net /c5332-n135-ocotal-nicaragua.html (135 words)

	AllRefer.com - Rivas (Nicaragua Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It is on the Isthmus of Rivas, a narrow land strip between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean.
		Rivas is the commercial center of a region which produces grains, coffee, cacao, and tobacco; livestock is raised.
		During the California gold rush it controlled the transit route across Nicaragua; its loss by U.S. filibuster William Walker in 1857 ended his Nicaraguan campaign.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rivas.html (189 words)

	The World Travel Guide Online - Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		GEOGRAPHY: Nicaragua borders Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south.
		The majority of Nicaragua's population lives and works in the lowland between the Pacific and western shores of Lake Nicaragua, the southwestern shore of Lake Managua and the southwestern sides of the range of volcanoes.
		The publishers cannot accept any responsibility for any loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from acting as a result of this information, or liability for any financial or other agreements which may be entered into with any individuals or organisations listed in the text.
	www2.wexas.com /wtg/data/nic/nic.htm (444 words)

	Nicaragua: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Environmental regimes in Nicaragua: moving beyond Sandinista vs. Somocista.
		How the discipline of geography exacerbates poverty in the Third World.
		The uneven geography of global civil society: national and global influences on transnational association.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107839.html (955 words)

	Open a World of Possibilities: Nicaragua
		Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America.
		Nicaragua is known as the "land of lakes and volcanoes."
		The name Nicaragua comes from the Nicarao (nik- ah-RAH-oh) tribe of people who lived there, and agua, the Spanish word for water.
	www.elca.org /openaworld/leaders/facts/geography.html (382 words)

	Geography Of Nicaragua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/nicaragua_country_geography.shtml (328 words)

	A Virtual Travel to Nicaragua - Republica de Nicaragua
		Settled as a colony of Spain in the 1520s, Nicaragua gained its independence in 1821.
		The Independent National University of Nicaragua-Leon (UNAN-Leon) is the oldest of Nicaragua and the last university founded on Latin America by the Spaniards, City of Leon.
		About the conflict between Nicaragua's central government in Managua and the Miskito Indians on the Caribbean coast.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/nicaragua.htm (723 words)

	Nicaragua Geography: from the All Country Info reference guide to country facts
		Nicaragua Geography: from the All Country Info reference guide to country facts
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		Nicaragua Geography: A summary of information about Nicaragua Geography, from government research data as well as independent research and other sources.
	www.allcountryinfo.org /nicaragua/nicaragua_geography/nicaragua_geography.shtml (204 words)

	Nicaragua Information Travel - UK offers
		Nicaragua vacations: Visit TripAdvisor, your source for the web's best reviews and travel articles about tourism and vacation packages in Nicaragua, Central America.
		Nicaragua map (inc. detailed map), travel and tourism, tourist information and attractions, city guide, geography and community web sites for Nicaragua...
		Find nicaragua travel information that will help you to maximise your days out...
	www.webtaxi.com /nicaragua-information-travel.htm (170 words)

	Syllabus - Geography of Nicaragua
		The main purpose of this course is to provide the student with the basic information about the geographic accidents found in Nicaragua and how these affect and determine human activity in a given area.
		Students will learn the economic and political realities of the country, along with elements of physical geography and human geography.
		Brief recount of Nicaragua's geopolitical role in the Central American-Caribbean region.
	www.ans.edu.ni /Academics/Bendana,Virginia/GEO_SILL.htm (235 words)

	Nicaragua Geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Largest but most sparsely populated of the Central American nations, Nicaragua borders on Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south.
		Nicaragua is mountainous in the west, with fertile valleys.
		The Caribbean coast, swampy and indented, is aptly called the "Mosquito Coast."
	www.grupofenix.org /Nicaragua_Info/Geography/geography.html (82 words)

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