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    Introduction


    The Pacific Coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and again in 2001 saw the Sandinistas defeated. The country has slowly rebuilt its economy during the 1990s, but was hard hit by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.


    Location


    Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras


    Geographic coordinates


    13 00 N, 85 00 W


    Area


    total: 129,494 sq km water: 9,240 sq km land: 120,254 sq km


    Area - comparative


    slightly smaller than the state of New York


    Land boundaries


    total: 1,231 km border countries: Costa Rica 309 km, Honduras 922 km


    Coastline


    910 km


    Maritime claims


    territorial sea: 200 NM continental shelf: natural prolongation


    Climate


    tropical in lowlands, cooler in highlands


    Terrain


    extensive Atlantic coastal plains rising to central interior mountains; narrow Pacific coastal plain interrupted by volcanoes


    Elevation extremes


    lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Mogoton 2,438 m


    Natural resources


    gold, silver, copper, tungsten, lead, zinc, timber, fish


    Land use


    arable land: 20.24% permanent crops: 2.38% other: 77.38% (1998 est.)


    Irrigated land


    880 sq km (1998 est.)


    Natural hazards


    destructive earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides; extremely susceptible to hurricanes


    Environment - current issues


    deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution


    Environment - international agreements


    party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Environmental Modification


    Geography - note


    largest country in Central America; contains the largest freshwater body in Central America, Lago de Nicaragua


    Population


    5,359,759 (July 2004 est.)


    Capital


    Managua


    Phone Code


    +505


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