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Bluefields is the capital of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region in Nicaragua. It was also the capital of the former Kingdom of Mosquitia, and later the Zelaya Department, which was divided into North and South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Regions. It is located on Bluefields Bay at the mouth of the Bluefields River in the municipality of the ...
The capital is Bluefields. Bordering the Caribbean Sea, it contains part of the region known as Mosquitia. It is divided into 12 municipalities: Bluefields, the Corn Islands, Desembocadura de Río Grande, El Ayote, El Rama, El Tortuguero, Kukra Hill, La Cruz de Río Grande, Muelle de los Bueyes, Nueva Guinea, Paiwas, and Pearl Lagoon. Eight ...
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Capital Population (2023) [3] Area (km 2) Pop. density (km −2) NI-AN: ... Bluefields: 434,270 27,260.02 15.93 See also. Nicaragua portal; ISO 3166-2:NI; Notes
The Mosquito Coast (also known as the Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore) is an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras.It was named after the local Miskito Nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the Mosquito Kingdom.
Bluefields is the capital of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, where a large amount of inhabitants of the city are Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans from the Pacific Coast. [ 3 ] Most of the creole speakers are located along the banks of the large rivers and lagoons that surround the area.
Rama is an old settlement, whose name is reminiscent of their first settlers, the Caribbean indigenous Rama, once populate the territories of the present municipalities of Bluefields and Rama. Unlike the Miskito , this ethnic group did not subordinated to the British and other European nations from 1633.
U.S. Marines leaving New York City in 1909 for deployment in Nicaragua. Then-Colonel William P. Biddle, in charge of the detachment, is in civilian clothes at right.. In 1909 Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya of the Liberal Party faced opposition from the Conservative Party, led by governor Juan José Estrada of Bluefields who received support from the U.S. government as a result of ...