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Lake Nicaragua

Index Lake Nicaragua

Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (Lago de Nicaragua, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. [1]

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Accessory Transit Company

The Accessory Transit Company was a company set up by Cornelius Vanderbilt and others during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s, to transport would-be prospectors from the east coast of the United States to the west coast.

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Adán Cárdenas

Adán Cárdenas del Castillo (1836–1916) was a Nicaraguan politician and doctor.

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Alajuela Province

Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica.

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Amerrisque Mountains

The Amerrisque Mountains (Serranías de Amerrisque, Cordillera de Amerrisque) are the central spine of Nicaragua and part of the Central American Range which extends throughout central Nicaragua for about 700 km (436 mi) from Honduras in the NW to Costa Rica in the SW, just a few miles from the Caribbean.

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Amphilophus labiatus

Amphilophus labiatus is a large cichlid fish endemic to Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua in Central America.

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Andrés Niño

Andrés Niño (born in Moguer in 1475; died about 1530) was a Spanish navigator.

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Aphanotriccus

Aphanotriccus is a small genus of passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family.

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Buenos Aires, Rivas

Buenos Aires is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua.

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Bull shark

The bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally "zambi") in Africa, and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers.

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Cárdenas, Rivas

Cárdenas is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua.

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Champdepraz

Champdepraz (lit); is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.

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Charles Frederick Henningsen

Charles Frederick Henningsen (1815 – 14 June 1877) was a writer, mercenary, filibuster, and munitions expert.

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Coffee production in Nicaragua

Coffee production in Nicaragua has been an important part of its history and economy.

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Concepción (volcano)

Concepción is one of two volcanoes (along with Maderas) that form the island of Ometepe, which is situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping.

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Costa Rica–Nicaragua border

The Costa Rica–Nicaragua border is the line of 309 km long, east-west direction, separating the north of Costa Rica's territory of Nicaragua, extending between the Caribbean Sea (E) and the Pacific Ocean (W) coasts.

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Crater lake

A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite, or in the crater left by an artificial explosion caused by humans.

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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy, notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars, and frequently as Nelson's successor in commands.

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Ecobricks

An ecobrick is a plastic bottle stuffed solid with non-biological waste to create a reusable building block.

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Ecocanal

The Nicaraguan Ecocanal is a proposed project in Nicaragua to build a shallow-draft waterway connecting the inland Lake of Nicaragua with the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan river in the south of the country.

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Economy of Nicaragua

Nicaragua's economy is focused primarily on the agricultural sector.

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El Castillo (municipality)

El Castillo is a municipality located on the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua.

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El Castillo (village)

El Castillo is a village of about 1,500 people situated on the southern bank of the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in southern Nicaragua.

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El Ceibo Museums

El Ceibo is a major Museum in the Ometepe island in what once were the tobacco farm “Tel Aviv” kilns, known by its former name “El Refugio”, in the community of Sacramento, 10 kilometers from Moyogalpa in Lake Cocibolca or Lake Nicaragua administratively Ometepe Island belongs to the Rivas Department.

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Enrique Gottel

Enrique Gottel (1831–1875) was a German-Nicaraguan journalist, music composer and historian.

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Extreme points of Central America

This is a list of the extreme points of Central America, the points that are farther north, south, east, or west than any other location on the region.

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Fauna of Nicaragua

The fauna of Nicaragua is characterized by a very high level of biodiversity.

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Filibuster (military)

A filibuster or freebooter, in the context of foreign policy, is someone who engages in an (at least nominally) unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foment or support a revolution.

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Fish migration

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.

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Fortress of the Immaculate Conception

The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, (Spanish: El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción) is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River (Río San Juan), in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua.

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Francisco Montealegre Fernández

Francisco Montealegre Fernández (1818–1875) was a Costa Rican politician and businessman.

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Geography of Costa Rica

Costa Rica is located on the Central American Isthmus, surrounding the point 10° north of the equator and 84° west of the prime meridian.

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Geography of Mesoamerica

The geography of Mesoamerica describes the geographic features of Mesoamerica, a culture area in the Americas inhabited by complex indigenous pre-Columbian cultures exhibiting a suite of shared and common cultural characteristics.

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Geography of Nicaragua

Nicaragua (officially the Republic of Nicaragua República de Nicaragua) is a country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras.

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Gil González Dávila

Gil González Dávila or Gil González de Ávila was a Spanish Conquistador and the first European to arrive in present-day Nicaragua.

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Granada, Nicaragua

Granada is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department.

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History of California

The history of California can be divided into: the Native American period; European exploration period from 1542 to 1769; the Spanish colonial period, 1769 to 1821; the Mexican period, 1821 to 1848; and United States statehood, from September 9, 1850 (in Compromise of 1850) which continues to this present day.

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History of Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the third least densely populated nation in Central America, with a demographic similar in size to its smaller neighbors.

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History of rail transport in Nicaragua

The history of rail transport in Nicaragua began in 1860s, with the first plans for a railroad in Nicaragua.

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History of the Nicaragua Canal

There is a long history of attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

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History of the Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a historic 2,000-mile (3,200-km) trail used by American pioneers living in the Great Plains in the 19th century.

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Hong Kong–Nicaragua relations

Hong Kong–Nicaragua relations refers to the bilateral relationship between Hong Kong and Nicaragua.

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Hurricane Gert

Hurricane Gert was a large tropical cyclone that caused extensive flooding and mudslides throughout Central America and Mexico in September 1993.

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Hurricane Irene–Olivia

Hurricane Irene–Olivia was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone to move into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic basin.

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Hurricane Joan–Miriam

Hurricane Joan was a powerful hurricane that caused death and destruction in over a dozen countries in the Caribbean and Central America.

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Hypostomus niceforoi

Hypostomus niceforoi is a species of suckermouth armored catfish.

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Idania Fernandez

Idania de Los Angeles Fernandez, born July 23, 1952 in Managua, Nicaragua, assassinated in captivity in Leon, Nicaragua April 16, 1979.

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Index of Belize-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the nation of Belize.

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Index of Central America-related articles

This is an Index of Central America-related articles.

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Index of Colombia-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Colombia.

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Index of Costa Rica-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Costa Rica.

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Index of El Salvador-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of El Salvador.

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Index of Guatemala-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Guatemala.

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Index of Honduras-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Honduras.

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Index of Nicaragua-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Nicaragua.

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Index of Panama-related articles

The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to the Republic of Panamá.

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Islets of Granada

The islets of Granada (Spanish: Isletas de Granada) are located in Lake Nicaragua, just southeast of the city of Granada in Nicaragua.

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Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests

The Isthmian-Atlantic moist forests (NT0129) are a Central American tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion located in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

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Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916

The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were a series of shark attacks along the coast of New Jersey, in the United States, between July 1 and 12, 1916, in which four people were killed and one injured.

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Jesse Edward Grinstead

Jesse Edward Grinstead (October 16, 1866 – March 8, 1948) was an American publisher, editor, poet and politician who in later life became a popular writer of Western fiction.

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John Edward Hollenbeck

John Edward Hollenbeck (June 5, 1829 – September 2, 1885) was an American businessman and investor who was involved in the 19th century development of Nicaragua and the city of Los Angeles, California.

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John Morris (pirate)

John Morris (fl. 1663–1672, last name occasionally "Morrice") was an English buccaneer active in the Caribbean during the 1660s and early-1670s.

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José Coronel Urtecho

José Coronel Urtecho (28 February 1906 – 19 March 1994) was a Nicaraguan poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, diplomat and historian.

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José Santos Zelaya

José Santos Zelaya López (1 November 1853 Managua – 17 May 1919 New York City) was the President of Nicaragua from 25 July 1893 to 21 December 1909.

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Juan Campodónico

Juan Campodónico (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1971), sometimes working under his stage name Campo, is an Uruguayan musician, producer, composer, creator and former member of El Peyote Asesino, Bajofondo and Campo.

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La Cruz (canton)

La Cruz is the tenth canton in the province of Guanacaste in Costa Rica.

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Lake island

A lake island is any landmass within a lake.

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Lake Managua

Lake Managua (also known as Lake Xolotlán) (located at) is a lake in Nicaragua.

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Largetooth sawfish

The largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis, syn. P. microdon and P. perotteti) is a species of sawfish, family Pristidae.

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Las Lajas (volcano)

Las Lajas is a shield volcano located in the central part of Nicaragua, north of Lake Nicaragua.

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Latin American economy

Latin America as a region has multiple nation-states, with varying levels of economic complexity.

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Lawrence Prince

Laurens Prins known in English as Lawrence PrinceMarley, David.

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List of car-free places

The areas in this list of car-free places make up a sizeable fraction of a city, town, or island; public transport connections do not in themselves constitute a car free area.

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List of country-name etymologies

This list covers English language country names with their etymologies.

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List of earthquakes in 1931

This is a list of earthquakes in 1931.

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List of earthquakes in 1967

This is a list of earthquakes in 1967.

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List of freshwater ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean

This is a list of freshwater ecoregions in Latin America and the Caribbean, as identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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List of interoceanic canals

The following is a list of interoceanic canals, that is, canals or canal proposals, which form waterways for traffic to connect one ocean to another.

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List of islands by highest point

This is a list of islands in the world ordered by their highest point.

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List of islands of Nicaragua

This is a list of islands of Nicaragua.

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List of islands of North America

The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

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List of lakes

For rank-order lists, see List of lakes by area, List of lakes by depth, List of lakes by volume.

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List of lakes by area

This is a list of terrestrial lakes with a surface area of more than approximately, ranked by area.

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List of lakes by volume

This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km³, ranked by volume.

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List of NATO country codes

This is the list of NATO country codes.

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List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 7,000 to 10,000 square kilometers

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List of railroad crossings of the North American continental divide

A crossing of the North American continental divide is necessary for any transcontinental railroad in North America, and has always been one of the hardest obstacles.

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List of rivers of Nicaragua

The majority of rivers in Nicaragua are located on the Caribbean coast and empty out into the Caribbean Sea.

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List of secondary endemic bird areas of the world

The following is a list of areas classified by Birdlife International as Secondary Areas, namely areas which contain at least one restricted-range endemic bird species, but do not qualify for the full Endemic Bird Area status.

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List of shipwrecks in 1862

The list of shipwrecks in 1862 includes any ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1862.

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Los Guatuzos Wildlife Refuge

Los Guatuzos Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio de Vida Silvestre Los Guatuzos) has an area of and is located south of Lake Nicaragua and west of the San Juan River in Nicaragua.

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Macuá

The Macuá is a cocktail made with white rum and fruit juices, usually lemon and guava juice.

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Maderas

With a height of, Maderas is the smaller of the two volcanoes which make up the island of Ometepe, situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America.

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Managua

Managua is the capital and largest city of Nicaragua, and the center of eponymous department.

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Managua Department

Managua is a department in Nicaragua.

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Maritime history of California

In the California coast, the use of ships and the Pacific Ocean has historically included water craft (such as dugouts, canoes, sailing ships, and steamships), fisheries, shipbuilding, Gold Rush shipping, ports, shipwrecks, naval ships and installations, and lighthouses.

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Masaya Volcano

Masaya is a caldera located in Masaya, Nicaragua, 20 km south of the capital Managua.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Mombacho

Mombacho is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, near the city of Granada.

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Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast, also known as the Miskito Coast and the Miskito Kingdom, historically comprised the kingdoms fluctuating area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras.

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Nicaragua Canal

The Nicaraguan Canal (Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project (also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean.

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Nicaraguan grackle

The Nicaraguan grackle (Quiscalus nicaraguensis) is a species of passerine bird belonging to the genus Quiscalus, a genus of grackles in the New World blackbird family, Icteridae.

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Nicaraguan slider

The Nicaraguan slider (Trachemys emolli) is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae.

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Nicarao (cacique)

Nicarao was said to be the name of an indigenous chieftain or cacique who presided over a territory in southwestern Nicaragua during the early 16th century.

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Nicarao people

The Nicarao people were a Nahuat-speaking Mesoamerican people that migrated from central and southern Mexico over the course of several centuries from approximately 700 AD onwards.

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Ometepe

Ometepe is an island formed by two volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua.

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Ometepe (archaeological site)

Ometepe Island is an important archaeological site, located in the Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua, administratively belongs to the Rivas Department.

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Ometepe Biological Field School

The Ometepe Biological Field School, located on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua, is one of two field school operated by the Maderas rainforest conservancy (the other being La Suerte Biological Field School).

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Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is a historic East–West, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.

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Oryzomys couesi

Oryzomys couesi, also known as Coues' rice rat, is a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia.

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Outline of Nicaragua

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nicaragua: Nicaragua – sovereign, representative democratic republic and the most extensive nation in Central America.

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Pan-American Highway (North America)

The Pan-American Highway route in North America is the portion of a network of roads nearly 48,000 km in length which travels through the mainland nations of the Americas.

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Papagayo Jet

The Papagayo jet, also referred to as the Papagayo Wind or the Papagayo Wind Jet, are strong intermittent winds that blow approximately 70 km north of the Gulf of Papagayo, after which they are named.

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Parachromis

Parachromis is a genus of cichlids native to Central America.

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Partido de Nicoya

The Partido de Nicoya was a major part of what is now the Guanacaste province in Costa Rica.

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Pikin Guerrero Airport

Pikin Guerrero Airport is an airstrip serving the town of Pikin Guerrero in Chontales Department, Nicaragua.

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Piracy on Lake Nicaragua

Piracy on Lake Nicaragua refers to an era in Nicaraguan history from 1665 to 1857, when Caribbean pirates and filibusters operated in the lake and the surrounding shores.

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Poor man's tropheus

The poor man's tropheus (Hypsophrys nematopus, formerly Neetroplus nematopus) is a species of fish in the family Cichlidae.

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Popoyo

Popoyo is a small beach town in the Tola municipality of the Rivas Department of Nicaragua.

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Pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica

The pre-Columbian history of Costa Rica extends from the establishment of the first settlers until the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Province of Tierra Firme

During Spain's New World Empire, its mainland coastal possessions surrounding the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were referred to collectively as the Spanish Main.

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Rama people

The Rama are an indigenous people living on the eastern coast of Nicaragua.

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Róger Pérez de la Rocha

Róger Pérez de la Rocha (born 27 March 1949, Managua, Nicaragua 7 Días On Line Edición 542 del 30 de Junio al 6 de Julio del 2008) is a Nicaraguan painter and portrait artist.

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Rio Brito

Rio Brito or Brito River is a river in the southwestern part of Nicaragua that drains into the Pacific Ocean near Punta Brito, a promontory.

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Rivas Department

Rivas is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua.

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San Carlos, Río San Juan

San Carlos is the capital city of the municipality of San Carlos and of the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua.

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San Jorge, Rivas

San Jorge is a municipality on Lake Nicaragua in the Rivas department of Nicaragua.

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San Juan de Nicaragua

San Juan de Nicaragua, formerly known as San Juan del Norte or Greytown, is a town and municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua.

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San Juan del Sur

San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in southwest Nicaragua.

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San Juan Expedition (1780)

The San Juan Expedition took place between March and November 1780 during the American War of Independence when a British force under the command of John Polson and Captain Horatio Nelson landed on the coast of the present-day Nicaragua, with the aim of sailing up the San Juan River to capture the strategically crucial towns of Granada and León, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua.

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San Juan River (Nicaragua)

The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea.

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Santa Cruz, Rivas

Santa Cruz is a small village on the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua, Rivas, Nicaragua.

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Sapoá River

Sapoá River (Spanish: Rio Sapoá) is a river of Costa Rica.

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Sawfish

Sawfishes, also known as carpenter sharks, are a family of rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum, or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged in a way that resembles a saw.

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Second Battle of Rivas

The Second Battle of Rivas occurred on 11 April 1856 between Costa Rican militia under General Mora and the Nicaraguan forces of William Walker.

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Sofía Montenegro

Sofía Montenegro Alarcón (born 15 February 1954) is an award-winning Nicaraguan journalist, social researcher, and feminist.

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Solentiname Islands

The Solentiname Islands are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca) in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan.

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Spain and the American Revolutionary War

Spain's role in the independence of the United States was part of its dispute over colonial supremacy with the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Spanish conquest of Nicaragua

The Spanish conquest of Nicaragua was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the natives of the territory now incorporated into the modern Central American republic of Nicaragua during the colonisation of the Americas.

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Spanish migration to Honduras

Honduras has a large Spanish community, distributed throughout the country.

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Tawny-chested flycatcher

The tawny-chested flycatcher or Salvin's flycatcher, Aphanotriccus capitalis, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family.

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Territorial disputes of Nicaragua

Territorial disputes of Nicaragua include the territorial dispute with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank.

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Timeline of European exploration

The following timeline covers European exploration from 1418 to 1957.

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Tipitapa

Tipitapa is a municipality in the Managua department of western Nicaragua.

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Tipitapa River

The Tipitapa River (Río Tipitapa) is a short river in Nicaragua that connects Lake Managua to Lake Nicaragua.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Tourism in Nicaragua

Tourism in Nicaragua has grown considerably recently, and it is now the second largest industry in the nation.

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Transandinomys talamancae

Transandinomys talamancae is a rodent in the genus Transandinomys that occurs from Costa Rica to southwestern Ecuador and northern Venezuela.

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United States occupation of Nicaragua

The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the US military forcefully intervened in various Latin American countries from 1898 to 1934.

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Viktoria Mazur

Viktoria Oleksiivna Mazur (Вікторія Олексіївна Мазур; Виктория Алексеевна Мазур, born 15 October 1994) is a Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast who competes in individual and group rhythmic gymnastics.

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Water resources management in Nicaragua

Water resources management in Nicaragua is carried out by the National water utility and regulated by the Nicaraguan Institute of water.

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William Walker (filibuster)

William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking slave colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering".

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Zapatera

Zapatera is a shield volcano located in the southern part of Nicaragua.

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Zapatera (archaeological site)

Zapatera is an archaeological site located on Isla Zapatera, a volcanic island in Lake Nicaragua, Granada Department, Nicaragua.

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Zapatera Archipelago

The Zapatera Archipelago is located in Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua.

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12th parallel north

The 12th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 12 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.

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2013–2018 Nicaraguan protests

The 2013–2018 Nicaraguan protests are a series of protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and actions performed by his government, the dismantling of the opposition and oppressive human rights violations against peaceful protesters.

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85th meridian west

The meridian 85° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nicaragua

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