Facts about Nicaragua
Nicaragua is positioned in Central America and is the largest country in the area. It crosses from coastline to coastline, from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. It is bordered on the north by Costa Rica and on the south by the Honduras. A country that is scattered with volcanoes and lakes, Nicaragua is home to one of the largest fresh water lakes in the world -- Lake Nicaragua.
Some volcanoes in the country even now remain active. One of these, Concepcion, sits right alongside Lake Nicaragua. If you ascend the volcano, you can overlook and see the settlement of Granada, the initial colonial village of the Spanish when they landed on these coastlines. Another large volcano, Momotombo, rests in the same way on the other large lake in the country, Lake Managua, and gazes down over the town of Managua, the nation's capitol city. Leon, the historic sister town to Granada, can be spotted at the summit of this volcano.
Even though Nicaragua is now a peaceful, unobtrusive democracy, it has been troubled with violence and revolution in the past. The most present violence arose when the Sandinista army overthrew the existing leader of the country in the latter part of 1970's, opening up the country to elections and democracy. Several in the present generation recollect the movies and pictures of the uprising as it advanced. The country is at the moment is run by a president and a congress.
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