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Managua's nation
Answer for the clue "Managua's nation ", 9 letters:
nicaragua
Alternative clues for the word nicaragua
- Costa Rica's neighbor
- Largest country of Central America
- Land on the Pacific and Caribbean
- Jaguar, maybe eating wild iguana? On the contrary, they're both here
- Contra position?
- Neighbor of Honduras
- Central America country, capital Managua
- Country estate, perhaps, seen in N Ireland a month back
- Central American country
Word definitions for nicaragua in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
visited 1522 by Spanish conquistador Gil González Dávila, who is said to have named it for a local native chieftain, Nicarao .\nRelated: Nicaraguan .
Usage examples of nicaragua.
Callao and Guayaquil to Nicaragua and Guatemala, under pretext of going for pitch and other things, and then often go from there to the port of Acapulco to lade Chinese cloth, in return for a great sum of silver which they carry, practicing many efforts and frauds.
The merchants of Gautemala, likewise, shipped their commodities to Cartagena by way of Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan river, for they feared to send goods across the Gulf of Honduras to Havana, because of the French and English buccaneers hanging about Cape San Antonio.
Mosquito Coast, the galleons, in making their course from Porto Bello to Havana, first sailed back to Cartagena upon the eastward coast eddy, so as to get well to windward of Nicaragua before attempting the passage through the Yucatan Channel.
The outstanding examples of counterinsurgent atrocity can be found in Argentina, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Nicaragua had victimized the Marines by grabbing any available dogs and tying them around their camp for security.
Besides, Harvard professors visiting the Executive Office Building in DC are harder to disappear than comm-symp teachers in some flyblown jungle village in Nicaragua.
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas, whose legacies still reverberate.
United States effectively made colonies of Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and several other countries.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
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.
And so it came to pass that she was staying on the top floor of a RAMJAC hotel in Managua, Nicaragua.
It just said that an American business man, Frank Harkevy, had been in an accident outside of Managua, Nicaragua.
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.
A hundred miles away, across both Lake Nicaragua and Lake Managua, the fiery mountain was easily visible from his altitude.