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Nicaragua
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Facts and Numbers
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Pacific Ocean borders it on the western part, while the Caribbean
Sea bathes its eastern shores. The northern neighbor is Honduras,
the southern one – Costa Rica. This is Nicaragua, the largest
country and republic of the Central America. However, for a land
found among the first one hundred largest countries in the world,
its population is rather small, barely reaching 5,500,000
inhabitants.
The capital city is Managua, famous for its
puzzling streets where a non-local can easily get lost or entangled
in some incident, since the organization of addresses and street
signs is somewhat perplexing for the visitor. The nation’s official
language is Spanish, yet English is spoken as well – mainly on the
Atlantic coast – along with a number or Caribbean native languages,
belonging to ethnical groups such as the Miskitos, the Ramas, or the
Sumos. The main religion is Roman Catholic. Finally, the national
currency is the cordoba oro (the gold cordoba).
Although in the past Nicaragua displayed a rather unbalanced,
insecure political status, firmly pointed by conflicts generated by
the Somozas’ tyranny during the first half of the 20th century, and
then by the insurgency of the Sandinistas and the hostilities led
against the Contras, nowadays it has come to be one of the safest
republics of the Central America. It does not mean that there is no
longer any trace of hardship among the country’s citizens; on the
contrary, Nicaraguans still undergo considerable deficiencies in
their standard of living, deficiencies which obstruct the reaching
of a higher level of material comfort.
Nonetheless, the country’s efforts directed towards the development
of a fairly determined tourist industry, as well as its natural
exquisiteness have generated an increased foreign interest in the
holidaymaker’s business. Additionally, several rare fauna and flora
species which can be found in Nicaragua form a supplementary reason
for the foreigners’ increasing curiosity in what this land is able
to offer.
A geographical mapping of Nicaragua reveals a basic arrangement into
three main parts: the Caribbean Lowlands at the East, the Central
Highlands, and the Pacific Lowlands at the West. To what concerns
climate, temperature is Nicaragua is mainly dependent on heights.
However, Nicaragua’s tropical forests’ climate is generally moist
and warm, sometimes even burning hot. In the mountainous sites,
height is the chief element in the determining of temperatures, yet
it is definitely cooler than in the tropical locations.
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