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managua
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Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as of the department of the same name. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Managua, it is Nicaragua's largest city, with a projected population in 2015 of 1,048,134 within the city limits and a population of 1,337,709 in the metropolitan area, which additionally includes the municipalities of Ciudad Sandino, El Crucero, Nindirí, Ticuantepe and Tipitapa.
The city was declared the national capital in 1852. Prior, the capital alternated between the cities of León and Granada. The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake and years of civil war in the 1980s severely disrupted and stunted Managua's growth. It was not until the mid-1990s that Managua began to see a resurgence.
Managua's population is composed predominantly of mestizos and whites who are mainly of Spanish descent, with a minority being of French, Jewish Nicaraguan, German Nicaraguan, Italian, Russian and Palestinian descent.
Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua.
Managua may also refer to:
Places:
- Lake Managua, also known as Lake Xolotlán, a lake in Nicaragua
- Managua (department), a department in Nicaragua
- Managua International Airport, the main airport near the city
- Quepos Managua Airport, an airport in Costa Rica
- Managua, a community in Cuba south of Havana
Others:
- Managua, Nicaragua (song), a popular song in the 1940s sung by Guy Lombardo
- América Managua, a Nicaraguan football team
- Viva Managua Movement, a Nicaraguan political organisation
- Managua (film), a 1996 film starring Louis Gossett, Jr.
Usage examples of "managua".
I had arrived by plane at the Managua airport, where I soon tired of waiting in the red-dust covered terminal for the local flight across the country.
I was admiring the beautiful cathedral of Managua when I looked at my watch and realized the time.
I now knew that Nicaragua had little TV, with broadcasts from Managua just six hours a day, and no doubt brought to this outpost by the relay towers I had seen on the way in.
I moved along the Malecon, past a small beach on Lake Managua, looking at the water to see if I could spot one of its unique freshwater sharks.
I left the desolate city of Managua, accepting a ride out in a Mercedes-Benz police car, and resumed my quest.
And so it came to pass that she was staying on the top floor of a RAMJAC hotel in Managua, Nicaragua.
But everyone in Managua, surely, must have suspected who she really was.
It just said that an American business man, Frank Harkevy, had been in an accident outside of Managua, Nicaragua.
Norm, asking similar questions-mine in Managua, San Salvador, Havana, La Paz, Buenos Aires, Tegucigalpa, Lima, Santiago, BogotA, Brasilia, Mexico City.
However, a half-dozen calls to the capital, Managua, produced a consensus that Ulises Rodriguez was not in Nicaragua, nor had he been there.
Colquist gyro, just north of the spot where Lake Nicaragua drains its brown overflow into the San Juan, and was bound for Managua, seventy-five miles north and west across the great inland sea.
San Juan emptying from the great lake into the Atlantic, and there was Lake Managua a dozen miles or so from the Pacific.
A hundred miles away, across both Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, the fiery mountain was easily visible from his altitude.
More than once, covert operations had been given away to Managua by left-leaning representatives, and American advisors and other personnel had died as a result.
Revolution choking the ditch of Panama, heaping the bigger ditch of Managua with bleeding corpses, seething through the dark forests of Honduras, Guatemala, Yucatan.