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 Jinotega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The capital city of the Department of Jinotega is the City of Jinotega.
The Department of Jinotega produces 80% of the nation's coffee.
The Jinotega region was perhaps the most war-torn region in Nicaragua's history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jinotega   (815 words)

  
 Jinotega, JINOTEGA, Nicaragua
Jinotega is located in the north central mountains of Nicaragua, 160 kilometers from the capital, Managua.
The department of Jinotega is made up of approximately 177,600 inhabitants over an extension of 9,576 square kilometers.
This department is the second largest in Nicaragua, bordering on the north with Honduras, on the south with Matagalpa, with Zelaya department on the east, and on the west with the departments of Esteli, Madriz, and Nueva Segovia.
www.amigosdenicaragua.org /jinotega.htm   (628 words)

  
 Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners of the Americas, Inc.
Jinotega women and families faced exceptionally high reproductive risk as a consequence of high fertility and minimal birth spacing amongst women under nineteen.
Diarrhea was the leading cause of mortality and morbidity amongst children under five years of age in the department of Jinotega, making up 85% of all cases.
Additionally, word was received from USAID prior to Christmas of 2001 that there had been fewer maternal and infant deaths recorded in the department of Jinotega.
wnp.uwsp.edu /programs/health/health.htm   (398 words)

  
 Welcome to Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The picturesque department of Jinotega is set among valleys and high ridges and is one of the largest departments in the country, located only 140 kilometers (87 miles) from the capital, in the northern mountains of the central region.
The main economic activity in Jinotega is agriculture and coffee is the primary crop.
Scenic: The valleys of Jinotega, Pantasma and Bocay; Lake Apanas, Kilambe Massif, Mount Ucapina; the rapids on the Coco River, waterfalls along the Bocay, Wina and Amaka Rivers.
www.visit-nicaragua.com /english/destinos/jinotega.html   (566 words)

  
 GIEWS-News Detail
The department that reported the highest number of losses is Puno, the main producing department of alpacas, llamas and sheep in the country.
In the village of Estelí, in the department of Jinotega, losses of maize and bean crops are respectively estimated at about 33 and 36.5 per cent of the area planted.
The departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega are important producing areas of maize, with more than 50 per cent of the national output of the first season crop (approximately 160 000 tonnes per year), and coffee, with about 70 per cent of the national production (approximately 42 000 tonnes of green coffee per year).
www.fao.org /giews/english/newsmore.htm   (1397 words)

  
 Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners of the Americas, Inc.
Jinotega women and families faced exceptionally high reproductive risk as a consequence of high fertility and minimal birth spacing for women under nineteen years of age.
Diarrhea was the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children zero to five years in the department of Jinotega, making up 85% of all the cases.
Subsequent missions included trips to Rosita in July of 1999, Jinotega in February of 2001, Ometepe in March of 2001, Waspam in February of 2002, and Acoyapa again in 2003, during which several thousand eyeglasses were distributed and dozens of other infirmities of the eye were treated.
wnp.uwsp.edu /archives/letter/0603/change/change.htm   (2657 words)

  
 Thirsty and in the Dark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Apanás dam, in the northern department of Jinotega, normally generates 23 percent of the electricity consumed in Nicaragua.
According to the Jinotega municipal secretary of environment, María Teresa Centeno, the artificial lake lost volume due to deforestation in its watershed and to unregulated irrigation of nearby fields.
CIRA studies indicate that in the southern high plains of Carazo the wells are losing nearly a meter of flow per year, while in the sierras surrounding the capital the loss is nearly 10 meters in the last eight years.
www.tierramerica.net /english/2006/0826/iacentos.shtml   (683 words)

  
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Located 17 miles from Managua, it is the smallest department and the most densely populated.
Ocotal is the capital of this department that borders with Honduras.
Jinotega is surrounded by pine forests and coffee plantations.
www.fortunecity.com /campus/french/208/nicaraguadepart.htm   (656 words)

  
 Employment Sector:Local economic development/Employment Sector/Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The principal crops of the Department are coffee, vegetable and fruit.
The Department is characterized by a relatively high literacy rate (80 % of the local population attended the primary school), a factor which facilitates attracting outside ionvestment.
Manufacturing is scarcely present in the Department, but the availability of a work force, its high level of education and the facility of access to national and international markets, makes the area particularly suited for industrial activities, for example the assembly of garment and electronic tools.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/led/publ/prodere.htm   (16204 words)

  
 reuters071601.html
Although the department of Matagalpa has suffered the worst during the current crisis, the neighboring department of Jinotega also has high rates of unemployment, hunger and delinquency, said Eduardo Rizo, a deputy in the National Assembly who also is a coffee producer.
Jinotega and Matagalpa, both in northern Nicaragua, lie in the heart of the country's coffee-growing region.
Zeledon said several mayors in the departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega have agreed that a national emergency plan is required to provide coffee growers with financing.
www.globalexchange.org /economy/coffee/news2001/reuters071601.html   (779 words)

  
 Revista Envío - Ben Linder's Dream: Electricity Comes to Bocay
Much of the land was once owned by rich Jinotega coffee and plantain growers and was confiscated after the revolution; some have now gotten it back, but few are working it.
Jinotega was not as important in the FSLN's years of pre-revolutionary struggle as the neighboring border department of Las Segovias, but it became central to the contra war.
After the life of the councilor in charge of Bocay was threatened and he was forced out of town, Kuan let the residents choose their own "mayor" and agreed to work with the UNO activist they picked.
www.envio.org.ni /articulo/3034   (4313 words)

  
 ASOCIACION ALDEA GLOBAL JINOTEGA
Founded in 1992, Asociación Aldea Global Jinotega is a small and medium farmer association representing over a thousand families in Northern Nicaragua-providing competitive agricultural commercialization services.
In the Jinotega department, CLUSA and Project Concern International have coordinated with their beneficiaries/farmer groups to export through Aldea Global.
JINOTEGA: one of the five best climates of the world for growing specialty coffee, cultivating coffee for more than 150 years! Expanding throughout Jinotega, Matagalpa, Madriz, Nueva Segovia and RAAS Departments through alliances with other small farmer organizations.
www.pagjino.org   (891 words)

  
 Central America: Hurricane Mitch - WFPEMOP-12: 30-Mar-99
In the department of Matagalpa: 200 houses and 65 latrines have been autoconstructed, 42 km of roads repaired, 20 wells cleaned, and b.
In the department of Jinotega: 695 houses rebuilt, 52 km of roads repaired, 10 wells cleaned, 47 latrines constructed.
The beneficiaries are involved in activities such as reconstruction of houses, rehabilitation and cleaning of wells, construction of latrines, reconstruction of roads and fences, planting of legumes and vegetables, community work, setting up of nurseries, and reconstruction of fences.
iys.cidi.org /disaster/99a/0045.html   (1938 words)

  
 Nicaragua, Landmine Monitor Report 2004
In the north, ten municipalities were reported as affected in the departments of Nueva Segovia (municipalities of Jalapa, Murra, Mozonte, Wiwilí, and San Fernando), Jinotega (Jinotega municipality), and RAAN (municipalities of Rosita, Bonanza, Waspán, and Cabo Gracias a Díos).
In 2003, front one operated in the department of Matagalpa; front two in the department of Jinotega; fronts three (Murra municipality) and four (municipalities of Jalapa and San Fernando) both in the department of Nueva Segovia, and front five (Waspán municipality) in RAAN.
The OAS PADCA Coordinator for Ocotal in the department of Nueva Segovia stated in February 2003 that amateur demining had been significantly reduced because of the visible presence of, and advancement made by, Nicaragua’s demining fronts, and because of a belief that the military would demine these areas in the near future.
www.icbl.org /lm/2004/nicaragua   (11545 words)

  
 Nicaragua 9144
He was arrested on January 2, 1983 by border guards at a place known as Las Manos, and was subsequently taken to La Soledad Ranch.
He was arrested on January 15, 1983 in Wiwili, Jinotega Sector.
Members of his family have been looking for him in Jinotega and Matagalpa but have been unable to locate him.
www.cidh.org /annualrep/85.86eng/Nicaragua9144.htm   (824 words)

  
 Local Economic Development in Central America: The PRODERE Experience - Employment Sector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Department of Morazan is located in the north-east region of El Salvador, along the borders with Honduras.
The capital of the Department is located in the town of San Francisco Gotera, which also serves as the headquarters for LEDA Morazan.
The total population of the Department of Morazan is 180.000 in an area of 1.100 km².
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/ent/papers/prodere.htm   (17292 words)

  
 Revista Envío - Sketches of an Unexpected Tragedy
In Chinandega, the department in Nicaragua's northwestern corner, the rainfall recorded for October was eight hundred times greater than the century's historic average, and in the mountainous center-north department of Jinotega a thousand times greater.
The most devastated parts of Nicaragua, however, are further to the north: the flat rural expanse of the otherwise dry northwest (León and Chinandega) and the mountainous north-central areas of Matagalpa, Jinotega and Las Segovias, on or near the Honduran border.
Producers in Jinotega and Matagalpa, the mountainous northern zones hardest hit by Mitch, where the remainder is grown, report that 30% of the crop there was lost.
www.envio.org.ni /articulo/1359   (8822 words)

  
 NICARAGUA , Landmine Monitor Report 2005
The majority of mine-affected areas are in the north of Nicaragua along the border with Honduras in the departments of Jinotega and Nueva Segovia, and in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN).
The department of Matalgapa, in the central region, was also affected to a lesser degree.
In these departments, the municipalities which are mine-affected are: Jinotega; Jalapa, Murra, Mozonte, San Fernando and Wiwilí (in Nueva Segovia); Bonanza, Cabo Gracias a Díos, Rosita, and Waspam (in RAAN); El Tuma-La Dalia and Matagalpa (in Matagalpa department).
www.icbl.org /lm/2005/nicaragua.html   (8644 words)

  
 1997 Human Rights Reports: Nicaragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In September 1996, policeman Juan Isidro Flores shot and killed peasant Mario Amador Duarte in Nueva Segovia department while the latter was in detention on suspicion of having stolen vegetables.
Gonzalez, the former head of the sixth military region that covers the departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega, was cited by the Tripartite Commission for negligence and obstruction of justice in the case of the 1991 killing at Wamblan of former RN member Heliodoro Splinger.
According to the Government's May 1995 census (which undercounted the population by as much as 25 percent in some rural areas), the four major identifiable tribes are the Miskito (with approximately 140,000 members), the Sumo (15,000), the Garifuna (1,500), and the Rama (1,000).
www.usemb.se /human/human97/nicaragu.html   (7646 words)

  
 EcoLogic Finance
Sociedad de Pequeños Productores Exportadoras y Compradores de Café, S.A. (SOPPEXCCA) is a Fair Trade and organically certified coffee grower cooperative located in the upper jungles of the department of Jinotega, where 65% of Nicaragua’s coffee is grown.
Founded in 1997, Cooperativa de Servicios Agropecuarios Tierra Nueva (COSATIN) is a farmer cooperative producing and exporting certified-organic coffee and honey from the central highlands of Nicaragua.
The cooperative represents 369 small-scale farmers living in 25 communities dispersed throughout the central and northwestern portion of the department of Boaco.
www.ecologicfinance.org /borrow_nic.html   (687 words)

  
 NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Political & Economic Affairs, including Cuba (formerly EcoCentral); September 16, ...
State Department sources are now saying, however, that Cuba is using its intelligence system and coast guard so effectively in drug interdiction that it has nearly shut down traffic through the Cuban transit routes.
A State Department source told Notimex news service that the US Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) were surprised by the Cuban assault on smugglers and were especially impressed with Cuban intelligence work.
In Waslala, Jinotega department, 95 communities are reportedly infested with rats.
ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/claea/h99/claea.19990916.html   (2182 words)

  
 Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign: Partners (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Coffee growing 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 flavour of its internationally renowned coffee.
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.
www.nicaraguasc.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /partners/index.htm   (1763 words)

  
 Tourism: San Rafael del Norte
Though the rest of the country may be gagging in dusty heat, San Rafael del Norte, in the department of Jinotega, remains damp, breezy, and, well, chilly (cross your fingers for sunshine).
San Rafael is located in the department of Jinotega, between Estelí; and Jinotega.
It is less than two hours away from either of these cities by bus, but the schedule seems to be in a constant state of flux.
www.nicanews.com.ni /nn21/sanrafael.html   (1084 words)

  
 Not Your Ordinary Missionary
He lives thousands of miles from the people he is ministering to and doesn’t speak but a few words of their language.
A department is much like our states in the United States.
Jinotega is a 3-4 hour drive from the capitol of Nicaragua and is in the nation’s mountainous region.
www.bellevue.org /templates/cusbellevue1103/details.asp?id=1360&PID=353150   (431 words)

  
 Part I - Nicaraguan population of Mikito origin
Dafne Murgia traveled to Honduras, and interviewed Honduran authorities and staff members of the UNHCR in Tegucigalpa; they also held several meetings with representatives of the refugee Miskito communities in Mocoron and other settlements in the Gracias a Dios Department.
At these meetings, the refugees expressed their desire to remain permanently in Honduras and not to return to Nicaragua.
The largest group of Nicaraguans of Miskito origin outside of Nicaragua is that which has taken refuge in various parts of the Gracias a Dios Department in Honduras.
www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/Miskitoeng/part1b.htm   (4835 words)

  
 Hurricane Mitch Update from Nicaragua
I do want to note two organizations that are working in the Bosawas and upper Rio Coco areas of Jinotega Department.
The main highways to Leon and Chinandega Departments are now open using ex-Soviet TMD assault bridges and military pontoon bridges.
Although the new river channel outside Sebaco in Matagalpa Department has not yet been bridged (because of the current), ingenuity has succeeded where technology fails: supplies are trucked to the river, ferried across on small boats, then replaced on trucks waiting on the far bank.
www.planeta.com /planeta/98/1198mitchnic.html   (2052 words)

  
 Jinotega | Nicaragua Living
The department of Jinotega is located in north central Nicaragua with much of its northern border adjoining Honduras.
It is a little smaller than 10,000 square kilometers in area and has a total population of about 260,000.
Much of Jinotega contains rainforest which is been protected by its inaccessability.
www.nicaliving.com /node/22   (96 words)

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