Granada

Nicuragua

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December 9th 2009
Arrived in our final new country of the trip. Nicuragua has been through so much historically and after reading about this I´ve been quite shocked at how much the US interferred in this and other Central American countries. Thankfully now this country has been relatively peaceful for the last 15 years but it clearly takes a lot longer to recover from the years of wars. The first thing that ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Nicaragua » Southern Pacific Coast » Granada

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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 fir... ... read more