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Ometepe Island is an important archaeological site, located in the Lake Nicaragua in the Republic of Nicaragua, administratively belongs to the Rivas Department.Its name derives from the Nahuatl words ome (two) and tepetl (mountain), meaning two mountains, given that it is formed and practically the whole island is formed by two volcanoes: Concepción and Maderas.
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He moved to Tuolumne County, California, in the early 1850s, where he studied law and began his practice. In the mid-1850s, he joined William Walker's filibustering expeditions in Mexico and Nicaragua but later opposed Walker's pro-slavery policies. He returned from Nicaragua to the U.S. only after Walker was executed in Honduras. [4 ...
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Corn Island, along with the eastern half of Nicaragua, was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1655 to 1894, a period in which the region was called the Mosquito Coast. At some point, the islands were frequented by Caribbean pirates. In 1894, the Nicaraguan government claimed the area.
Nicaragua experienced a large fall in growth in the late 1980s. Nicaragua won a historic case against the U.S. at the International Court of Justice in 1986 (see Nicaragua v. United States), and the U.S. was ordered to pay Nicaragua $12 billion in reparations for violating Nicaraguan sovereignty by engaging in attacks against it. The United ...
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