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    Granada (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡɾaˈnaða]) is a city in western Nicaragua and the capital of the Granada Department. With an estimated population of...
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    Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (Spanish: Lago de Nicaragua, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada) is a freshwater...
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    Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi). With...
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  • The islets of Granada (Spanish: Isletas de Granada) are located in Lake Nicaragua, just southeast of the city of Granada in Nicaragua. The islets are...
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    Granada (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡɾaˈnaða]) is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 1040 km2 and has a population of 215,965 (2021 estimate)...
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    the Nicaraguan railway from Corinto to Granada was threatened, interfering with U.S. interests.: 144  In mid-1912 Mena persuaded the Nicaraguan national...
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  • Cundinamarca, a town Granada, Meta, a town Granada (Kuwait), a residential area in Kuwait Granada, Nicaragua, a colonial city Granada Department, a subdivision...
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    Señora de la Asunción) also called Granada Cathedral is a neoclassical Catholic cathedral located in Granada, Nicaragua, 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast...
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    The flag of Nicaragua was first adopted on September 4, 1908, but not made official until August 27, 1971. It is based on, and inspired by, the flag of...
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    based in León, and the conservative party, based in Granada. In 1854, a civil war erupted in Nicaragua between the Legitimist Party (also called the 'Conservative...
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    Vigorón (category Nicaragua stubs)
    in his 1971 book "Granada," stated that María Luisa Cisneros Lacayo, "La Loca," developed the recipe in 1914 in Granada, Nicaragua, and she named the...
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  • Carlos Pellas Chamorro (category Nicaraguan billionaires)
    Nicaragua's first billionaire. Carlos Francisco Pellas Chamorro was born in Granada, Nicaragua, on January 10, 1953. He is the son of Alfredo Pellas Chamorro and...
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    Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (category Presidents of Nicaragua)
    Nicaragua. Fernando Chamorro Lacayo b. 1751 Granada, Nicaragua d. 1793 Granada, Nicaragua and Bárbara Nicolasa Argüello del Castillo b. 1756 Granada,...
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    pirates and filibusters operated in Lake Nicaragua and the surrounding shores. The Spanish city of Granada, located on the lake, was an important trading...
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    states Nicaragua Canal Panama Canal Florencio Xatruch Granada, Nicaragua, the colonial city that William Walker destroyed "Gobernantes de Nicaragua". Ministerio...
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    Ernesto Cardenal (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    was born into an upper-class family in Granada, Nicaragua. He studied at Colegio Centro América in Nicaragua. One of his brothers was fellow priest Fernando...
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    The Nicaragua Canal (Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project (also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal...
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    Granada, and most recently ecotourism and agritourism, particularly in Northern Nicaragua. In 2013, more than 1.2 million tourists visited Nicaragua,...
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    Dennis Martínez (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    four-time MLB All-Star. He was the first Nicaraguan to play in the majors. Martínez was born in Granada, Nicaragua, the last of seven children to Edmundo...
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    reputed as the founder of Nicaragua, and in fact he founded two important Nicaraguan cities, Granada and León. The currency of Nicaragua is named the córdoba...
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  • Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of La Prensa, the only significant...
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    Masaya (redirect from Masaya, Nicaragua)
    is the capital city of Masaya Department in Nicaragua. It is situated approximately 14 km west of Granada and 31 km southeast of Managua. It is located...
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    Lorenzo Guerrero (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    was a physician and surgeon by profession. He was mayor of his native Granada (1932), minister of Education (1934-1937), ambassador to Mexico (1937 and...
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  • and his corps score a bloody victory in Nicaragua, first in Rivas and then in the Conservative capital of Granada. In the midst of battle, Walker calmly...
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    María Romero Meneses (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    María Romero Meneses, FMA (13 January 1902 – 7 July 1977) was a Nicaraguan Catholic religious sister and a professed member from the Salesian Sisters of...
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    representing Nicaragua, and was created by a pediatrician from Granada. Beer is also a common alcoholic beverage consumed in Nicaragua. Popular brands...
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    Fernando Chamorro Alfaro (category History of Nicaragua)
    1751 Granada, Nicaragua d. 1793 Granada, Nicaragua and Barbara Nicolasa Arguello del Castillo b. 1756 Granada, Nicaragua d. 1785 Granada, Nicaragua Pedro...
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  • Elena Arellano Chamorro (category 19th-century Nicaraguan educators)
    dedication to women's education in Nicaragua. Elena Arellano Chamorro was born in the city of Granada, Nicaragua on November 3, 1836. She was the daughter...
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  • René Enríquez (category Nicaraguan emigrants to the United States)
    René Enríquez (November 24, 1933 – March 23, 1990) was a Nicaraguan-born American television actor of the 1970s and 1980s. He is best remembered for his...
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