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The Río San Juan is one of the most important rivers in Nicaragua, it borders Costa Rica and connects the Caribbean Sea to Lake Cocibolca. [1] The Nicaragua Canal was a proposed project for an inter-Oceanic canal to transport cargo ships coming in from the Pacific to the Caribbean, or vice versa, instead of sailing down around Cape Horn. As of ...
Land use map of Nicaragua, 1979 Topography of Nicaragua Nicaragua map of Köppen climate classification zones. Nicaragua (officially the Republic of Nicaragua Spanish: República de Nicaragua [reˈpuβlika ðe nikaˈɾaɣwa] ⓘ) is a country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras.
This article contains a sortable table listing all lakes and lagoons of Nicaragua. The table includes all still water bodies, natural or artificial, regardless of water volume or maximum depth. The table includes all still water bodies, natural or artificial, regardless of water volume or maximum depth.
Deutsch: Positionskarte Nicaragua mit Departamentos, Quadratische Plattkarte, N-S-Streckung 100 %. Geographische Begrenzung der Karte: Geographische Begrenzung der Karte: English: Location map of Nicaragua with Departamentos, Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 100 %.
The department borders Lake Nicaragua to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The southern part of the department borders with Costa Rica. [citation needed] A small fishermen village, called San Juan del Sur, has turned into a popular tourist attraction because of its access to beaches in the area. [6]
The country's name is derived from Nicarao, [citation needed] the name of the Nahuatl-speaking tribe which inhabited the shores of Lago de Nicaragua before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and the Spanish word Agua, meaning water, due to the presence of the large lakes Lago de Nicaragua (Cocibolca) and Lago de Managua (Xolotlán), as well ...
Río Grande de Matagalpa (Spanish pronunciation: [mataˈɣalpa], Awaltara in Miskito, Ucumulalí in Matagalpa) is a river of Nicaragua. Running 430 kilometers (270 mi) from its source near Matagalpa to the Caribbean Sea in the northern part of the South Caribbean Autonomous Region it is the second longest river in Nicaragua.
This map is part of a collection of 216 free country maps, created by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), to be used in print, web or broadcast products. The ReliefWeb Location Maps released here are maps that highlight a country, its capital, major populated places and the surrounding regions.