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San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in southwest Nicaragua. It is located 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Managua . San Juan del Sur is popular among surfers and is a vacation spot for many Nicaraguan families and foreign tourists.
The Christ of the Mercy is a colossal statue of Jesus Christ in the city of San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, to a height of 134m above sea level. The statue is located high above the northernmost seawall in the bay of San Juan. At the foot of the statue is a small chapel.
San Juan del Norte was founded by the Spanish and was a small fort and customs station. Spanish explorers first reached the bay at the mouth of the San Juan River on 24 June (feast day of Saint John the Baptist) 1539 and named it San Juan del Norte (St. John of the North).
San Juan by Andreas Seyfarth, a card game for two to four players; San Juan, a Peruvian beer brewed by Backus and Johnston; San Juan, the Honduran name of the Gold Tree (Tabebuia donnell-smithii) Fiesta de San Juan, the Spanish name for Saint John's Eve; San Juan Festival, celebrated in Moyobamba, Peru
Lighthouse San Juan del Salvamento in the east (1898) Isla de los Estados is an Argentine island that lies 29 kilometres (18 mi) off the eastern extremity of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by the Le Maire Strait. The island is part of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, and of the department and city of Ushuaia.
There is a synagogue in the city of San Juan del Sur. On December 16, 2007, Nicaraguan Jews welcomed a new Torah after 28 years. On the following day, the Torah was used for the first time in a minyan at a bar mitzvah of a local Nicaraguan Jew. [23] The Jewish population in 2012 was estimated at around 50 people.
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States in the Caribbean. [1] The world heritage site consists of several historic defensive structures built by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries to defend the ...
Survivor: San Juan del Sur — Blood vs. Water is the twenty-ninth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor, which premiered on September 24, 2014. Similar to Survivor: Blood vs. Water , the season features pairs of loved ones competing against each other but, unlike Blood vs. Water , all the players are new. [ 3 ]