The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. ), -2.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2023 est. It produces a variety of small manufactures, including processed meat, furniture, metal, and textiles, and it has an oil refinery. On the professional level, the National Nicaraguan Football team has still not had the public support nor the international exposure as the regional counterparts like the Costa Rican, Honduran or Salvadoran teams. ), general assessment: Nicaraguas telecoms market has mirrored the countrys poor economic achievements, with fixed-line teledensity and mobile penetration also being the lowest in Central America; the fixed line broadband market remains nascent, with population penetration below 4%; most internet users are concentrated in the largest cities, given that rural and marginal areas lack access to the most basic telecom infrastructure; internet cafs provide public access to internet and email services, but these also tend to be restricted to the larger population centers; to address poor infrastructure, the World Bank has funded a project aimed at improving connectivity via a national fiber broadband network; there are separate schemes to improve broadband in eastern regions and provide links to Caribbean submarine cables; the number of mobile subscribers overtook the number of fixed lines in early 2002, and the mobile sector now accounts for most lines in service (2021)domestic: since privatization, access to fixed-line and mobile-cellular services has improved; fixed-line teledensity roughly 3 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership has increased to roughly 90 per 100 persons (2020)international: country code - 505; landing point for the ARCOS fiber-optic submarine cable which provides connectivity to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US; satellite earth stations - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) and 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2019)note: the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on production and supply chains globally; since 2020, some aspects of the telecom sector have experienced a downturn, particularly in mobile device production; progress toward 5G implementation has resumed, as well as upgrades to infrastructure; consumer spending on telecom services has increased due to the surge in demand for capacity and bandwidth; the crucial nature of telecom services as a tool for work and school from home is still evident, and the spike in this area has seen growth opportunities for development of new tools and increased services, multiple terrestrial TV stations, supplemented by cable TV in most urban areas; nearly all are government-owned or affiliated; more than 300 radio stations, both government-affiliated and privately owned (2019), total: 2,981,049 (2020 est. Natural history museums include the Museo del Departamento de Malacologa UCA, Museo Gemolgico de la Concha y el Caracol, and Museo Paleontolgico "El Hato". Lake Managua contains the same fish species as larger Lake Cocibolca in southeastern Nicaragua, except for the freshwater sharks found exclusively in the latter. [47], The Rubn Daro National Theatre is Nicaragua's most important theater, and is one of the most modern theaters in Central America. One out of every ten buses now grants access to wheelchair passengers, granting disabled passengers for the first time the ability to utilize public transportation resources.[68]. Group of answer choices )hydroelectricity: 12.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est. [63] Traveling by airplane is more efficient than traveling by these roads due to the poor conditions, especially in the rainy season. Population: 6,545,502: Largest City Managua (1,063,698) Currency : Cordobas (NIO) GDP: $12.52 Billion: )33.122 (2019 est. It survived the 1972 earthquake. ), fossil fuels: 37.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est. )permanent pasture: 27.2% (2018 est. Euraque, Dario A. Ese )exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est. Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%, Contraceptive Prevalence Rate - female 15-49, Drinking Water Source - percent of rural population improved, Drinking Water Source - percent of total population unimproved, Drinking Water Source - percent of urban population improved, bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever, Hospital Bed Density - beds/1,000 population, Infant Mortality Rate - female deaths/1,000 live births, Infant Mortality Rate - male deaths/1,000 live births, Infant Mortality Rate - total deaths/1,000 live births, Major Infectious Diseases - degree of risk, Maternal Mortality Rate - deaths/100,000 live births, Physicians Density - physicians/1,000 population, Sanitation Facility Access - percent of total population unimproved, Sanitation Facility Access - percent of urban population improved, Sanitation Facility Access - percent of rural population improved, Total Fertility Rate - children born/woman, Underweight - percent of children under five years, Net Migration Rate - migrant(s)/1,000 population, Sex Ratio of Total Population - male/female, Total School Life Expectancy - (primary to tertiary). )refined petroleum consumption: 35,100 bbl/day (2019 est. te This also tends to be true for cities and towns that are served or are in close distance with the freeways. Managua, the capital city of Nicaragua, has an estimated population of 1,083, inhabitants, which covers one-sixth of the total population of the country, according to World Population Review (2022). )$35.007 billion (2020 est. ), 5.96% (2021 est. In Managua there are two golf courses, the better-known of which is Nejapa Golf & Country Club. )proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est. The airport used to serve as the hub for the Nicaragenses de Aviacin airline, which was bought by TACA Airlines the El Salvador national airline, that bought all of the airlines in Central America. Compared to western prices, alcoholic beverages, theater visits and cinema tickets are relatively inexpensive. The city has a population of roughly 1,800,000, composed predominantly of mestizos and whites; making it the second most populous city in Central America after Guatemala City. ), degree of risk: high (2020)food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fevervectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria, total: 3.69 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est. )wind: 15.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est. ), forest revenues: 1.26% of GDP (2018 est. )0.6% of GDP (2019) (approximately $170 million)0.6% of GDP (2018) (approximately $180 million)0.6% of GDP (2017) (approximately $190 million), approximately 12,000 active personnel (10,000 Army; 800 Navy; 1,200 Air Force) (2022), the Nicaraguan military's inventory includes mostly secondhand Russian/Soviet-era equipment; in recent years, Russia has been the leading arms supplier to Nicaragua (2022), 18-30 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; tour of duty 18-36 months; requires Nicaraguan nationality and 6th-grade education (2022), the modern Army of Nicaragua was created in 1979 as the Sandinista Popular Army (1979-1984); prior to 1979, the military was known as the National Guard, which was organized and trained by the US in the 1920s and 1930s; the first commander of the National Guard, Anastasio SOMOZA GARCIA, seized power in 1937 and ran the country as a military dictator until his assassination in 1956; his sons ran the country either directly or through figureheads until the Sandinistas came to power in 1979; the defeated National Guard was disbanded by the Sandinistas (2022), Nicaragua-El Salvador-Honduras: the 1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca, which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; the court ruled, rather, that the Gulf ofFonsecarepresents a condominium, with control being shared by El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua; the decision allowed for the possibility that the three nations could divide the waters at a later date if they wished to do so, Nicaragua-Costa Rica: Nicaragua and Costa Rica regularly file border dispute cases with the ICJ over the delimitations of the San Juan River and the northern tip of Calero Island, virtually uninhabited areas claimed by both countries; there is an ongoing case in the ICJ to determine Pacific and Atlantic ocean maritime borders as well as land borders; in 2009, the ICJ ruled that Costa Rican vessels carrying out police activities could not use the river, but official Costa Rican vessels providing essential services to riverside inhabitants and Costa Rican tourists could travel freely on the river; in 2011, the ICJ provisionally ruled that both countries must remove personnel from the disputed area; in 2013, the ICJ rejected Nicaragua's 2012 suit to halt Costa Rica's construction of a highway paralleling the river on the grounds of irreparable environmental damage; in 2013, the ICJ, regarding the disputed territory, ordered that Nicaragua should refrain from dredging or canal construction and refill and repair damage caused by trenches connecting the river to the Caribbean and upheld its 2010 ruling that Nicaragua must remove all personnel; in early 2014, Costa Rica brought Nicaragua to the ICJ over offshore oil concessions in the disputed region; in 2018, the ICJ ruled that Nicaragua must remove a military base from a contested coastal area near the San Juan River, and that Costa Rica had sovereignty over the northern part of Isla Portillos, including the coast, but excluding Harbour Head Lagoon; additionally, Honduras was required to pay reparations for environmental damage to part of the wetlands at the mouth of the San Juan River, Nicaragua-Colombia: Nicaragua filed a case with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Colombia in 2013 over the delimitation of the Continental shelf beyond the 200 nautical miles from the Nicaraguan coast, as well as over the alleged violation by Colombia of Nicaraguan maritime space in the Caribbean Sea, which contains rich oil and fish resources; as of September 2021, Colombia refuses to abide by the ICJ ruling, tier rating: Tier 3 Nicaragua does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so and was downgraded to Tier 3; the government identified slightly more victims than in the previous reporting period and prosecuted a trafficker; however, no traffickers were convicted and victim identification remained inadequate; authorities did not investigate, prosecute, or convict government employees complicit in trafficking; the government provided no victim services; prosecution, protection, and prevention efforts in the two Caribbean autonomous regions of Nicaragua continued to be much weaker than in the rest of the country (2020)trafficking profile: human traffickers exploit domestic and foreign victims in Nicaragua and Nicaraguans abroad; women, children, and migrants are most at risk; women and children are subject to sex trafficking within the country and its two Caribbean autonomous regions, as well as in other Central American countries, Mexico, Spain, and the United States; traffickers used social media to recruit victims with promises of high-paying jobs in restaurants, hotels, construction, and security outside of Nicaragua where they are subjected to sex or labor trafficking; traffickers exploit children through forced participation in illegal drug production and trafficking; children and persons with disabilities are subjected to forced begging; Nicaragua is also a destination for child sex tourists from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, a transit route for drug traffickers smuggling cocaine from South America through Mexico into the United States via maritime and air routes, total population growth rate v. urban population growth rate, 2000-2030, Children under the age of 5 years underweight, International law organization participation, Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income, Household income or consumption by percentage share, Civil aircraft registration country code prefix, Military and security service personnel strengths, Military equipment inventories and acquisitions, Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI). )government consumption: 15.3% (2017 est. CountryReports 1997 - 2023 - All Rights Reserved. However, this does not yield truthfully for cities and towns who tend to be considerably further from the main highway roads. Nearby is the Monument to Sandino which is a silhouette of Augusto C. Sandino, one of Nicaragua's national heroes. Out of the country's one hundred and forty airports, it is the only one with the appropriate infrastructure and capacity to handle international flights. You can specify conditions of storing and accessing cookies in your browser, Yo cocino ____ ____ mi esposa. The city has a population of approximately 1.5 million people. The National Palace was one of the few building that survived the 1972 earthquake. El Nuevo Diario. Constructed of Carrara marble, Daro's monument is one of the greatest in the country. The Pan-American Highway and an international airport tie it to other Central and North American cities. [citation needed]. The city, with a population exceeding one million inhabitants, houses many large national and international businesses. The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. 2021 class City Department 2021 Population ; 1 Managua: Managua Department: 1,047,286 2 Len: Len Department: 175,026 3 Tipitapa: Managua Department: 144,187 4 Masaya: Masaya Department: 136,584 5 Ciudad Sandino: Managua Department: Visiting Managua, The Capital of Nicaragua. Nicaragua's population is 69% Mestizo, 17% white, 5% Amerindian and 9% black and other races, although its demographics change with migration. ), definition: age 15 and over can read and writetotal population: 82.6%male: 82.4%female: 82.8% (2015), total: 11.6%male: 10.2%female: 15.5% (2021 est. [26] According to a study done by Amrica Economa INCAE ranked as the number one business school in Latin America in 2004 and 2005[27] and ranked in the top ten international business schools by The Wall Street Journal in 2006.[28]. Other universities are the Central American University (1961), the Polytechnical University of Nicaragua (1968; university status 1976), the National University of Engineering (1983), the American University (1992), and Redemptoris Mater Catholic University of Nicaragua (1992). There are two possible origins for the name "Managua". 2011. )wine: 0.02 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est. The population reached 937,489 in 2005, with more than 1.2 million people in the metropolitan area, representing one-fourth of the total population of Nicaragua. [67], Most bus coaches in Managua are fabricated by DINA S.A. and Mercedes-Benz. The Dennis Martnez National Stadium has a capacity for 40,000, making it the largest stadium in Nicaragua. After losing free and fair elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA was elected president in 2006, 2011, 2016, and most recently in 2021. The Carretera A Masaya connects Managua to the departments of Masaya and Granada. )crude oil estimated reserves: 0 barrels (2021 est. note: data are in current year dollars, United States 60%, El Salvador 5%, Mexico 5% (2019), clothing and apparel, gold, insulated wiring, coffee, beef (2019), $8.306 billion (2021 est.) Managua Urban Area Population History. [17] Managua is also Nicaragua's main political, social, cultural, educational and economic hub. Managua is the national education center, with most of the nation's prestigious universities and higher education institutions based there. les, Yo ______me_______ doy de comer a mis perros dos veces al da. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Ethnic/Racial groups Non-genetic phenotype data from the CIA World Factbook establish that Nicaragua's population self-reports as 69% Mestizos, and 17% White with the majority being of full Spanish descent . (male 180,441/female 231,392), total dependency ratio: 54.4youth dependency ratio: 46.4elderly dependency ratio: 8potential support ratio: 12.6 (2021 est. The most centrally located is the Tiscapa Lagoon in the Tiscapa Lagoon Natural Reserve. A. Based on weather reports collected during 1985-2015. )transmission/distribution losses: 1.89 billion kWh (2019 est. The city's development caught the attention of Irving Fields and Albert Gamse, who composed a musical piece about the city that became popular in the 1940s through the performances of Freddy Martin, Guy Lombardo and Kay Kyser. Schmidt K.M. This highway is commonly referred to as the Northern Highway. Backlinks from other websites and blogs are the lifeblood of our site and are our primary source of new traffic. [citation needed] These are regulated by the city's regulatory entity for municipal transports (IRTRAMMA) and individually operated by cooperatives and private companies. Nicaraguan men have been migrating seasonally to Costa Rica to harvest bananas and coffee since the early 20th century. Across from the Central Park, on the north side, is the Rubn Daro park and monument, dedicated to Nicaragua's greatest poet and one of the most influential literary figures of the Spanish-speaking world. The airport is located near the northern highway and is about 11 kilometers (6.8mi) east of the city's downtown. )nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est. [18] There are cinemas in all major shopping centers; screening both English- and Spanish-language films. Managua's 2021 population is now estimated at 1,072,852. Managua (Spanish pronunciation:[manawa]) is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and one of the largest cities in Central America. After another disastrous earthquake in 1972, the business section was rebuilt 6 miles (10 km) away (to the south and west) from the former city centre. The main trading products are beef, coffee, cotton, and other crops. Adjetivos demostrativos: This, these, that, and those. Salsa dancing is a national pastime. [50], Managua is also home to Museo Sitio Huellas de Acahualinca (the Museum of Acahualinca), where the Ancient footprints of Acahualinca, fossilized Paleo American footprints made 2,100 years ago, are engraved in volcanic ash. Since 2000, Nicaraguan emigration to Costa Rica has slowed and stabilized. [citation needed], The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Nicaragua) is the main state-funded public university of Nicaragua. [64] The airport was remodeled by architect Roberto Sansn[65] and has now been converted into one of the region's most modern airports.
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