Nicaragua
- Population: 5.7 million (UN, 2005)
- Capital: Managua
- Area: 120,254 sq km (46,430 sq miles)
- Major languages: Spanish, English, indigenous languages
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 67 years (men), 72 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 gold cordoba = 100 centavos
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Nicaragua Travel Guide - the Rice, Beans and Hammock Republic
Central America could have been one big, unified state. The volcanoes, the coffee plantations and the starch-laden meals remain consistent throughout; only the national prejudices and heroes change. The big ...
Poetry on the Slopes of a Volcano: Ometepe, Nicaragua
“Con gusto,” our waiter said as he set a plate of gallo pinto in front of each of us. The fried rice and beans mix, a staple of most meals ...
Granada, Nicaragua, the Backpacker Invasion
The road through Nicaragua is like a tongue of tarmac squeezing through a rolling landscape of green; not the dense vegetation of the jungle that suffocates all view but rather ...
Bull Testicles, Ticks and Woofing in Central America
I’d never really liked bulls, ever since I’d seen a piece on the news about a man going to fix a gas leak by the side of a road in ...
Heidi's Bar, Travel in Granada, Nicaragua
Despite an affinity for the music of Tom Waits and the blues, I’d never spent much time sitting at a bar until i came to Granada, Nicaragua. There my ...
