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    president of Nicaragua, was born in Rivas. Citypopulation.de Population of Rivas municipality "Climatological Information for Rivas, Nicaragua". Hong Kong...
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    Walker had taken Rivas again, and the allies had laid siege to the city, in what became known as the Third Battle of Rivas. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras...
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    Rivas (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈriβas]) is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,162 km2 and has a population of 183,611 (2021...
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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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    The Gigantes de Rivas (English: Rivas Giants) are a professional baseball team based in Rivas, Nicaragua. They compete in the Nicaraguan Professional Baseball...
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    Second Battle of Rivas occurred on 11 April 1856 between Costa Rican militia under General Juan Rafael Mora Porras and the Nicaraguan forces of American...
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  • Popoyo (category Rivas Department)
    municipality of the Rivas Department of Nicaragua. On September 2, 1992, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the central coast of Nicaragua generated a tsunami...
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    of the narrow Isthmus of Rivas. Plans were made to take advantage of this route to build an interoceanic canal, the Nicaragua Canal, but the Panama Canal...
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  • archaeological site. Rivas-Vaciamadrid, a municipality in Madrid, Spain. Rivas, Loire, a commune in France. Rivas Department, Nicaragua Rivas, Nicaragua, a city and...
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  • San Juan del Sur: he had paddled out on a canoe from the location in Nicaragua, and then paddling into Venice, California from a nearby island. Once...
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    Nicarao people (category History of Nicaragua)
    settled throughout western Nicaragua, such as Rivas, Jinotega, Chinandega, Nueva Segovia, Tiger Lagoon, Lake Xolotlan, Lake Nicaragua, Ometepe Island, Zapatera...
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    Cárdenas is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua. In 2002, the municipality of Cárdenas...
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    González Dávila ventured to the area that later became the Rivas Department of Nicaragua.: 35 : 92  There he encountered an indigenous Nahua tribe led...
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  • Harold Fernando Rivas Reyes (born April 26, 1960) is a Nicaraguan diplomat. He was Ambassador to Costa Rica on behalf of the Sandinista National Liberation...
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    formed by two volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua, located in the Rivas Department of the Republic of Nicaragua. Its name derives from the Nahuatl words...
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    Legitimists in Rivas, near the trans-isthmian route. He was driven off, but not without inflicting heavy casualties. In this First Battle of Rivas, a schoolteacher...
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    Nicoya in the 17th century. In the 18th century some neighbors from Rivas, Nicaragua, established their houses and cattle farms in the northern part of...
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  • Nicaraguan woman named Scarleth. In 2012, Hanover was arrested in Rivas, Nicaragua for sexual offenses. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison and ordered...
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    Violeta Chamorro (category People from Rivas Department)
    Violeta Barrios Torres was born on 18 October 1929 in Rivas, a small city near the Nicaraguan border with Costa Rica, to Carlos José Barrios Sacasa and...
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  • Santa Cruz is a small village on the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua, Rivas, Nicaragua. There's also a Playa Santa Cruz; the beach of Santa Cruz. Santa...
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  • CSE) is the public body responsible for organizing elections in Nicaragua. Roberto Rivas Reyes has been president of the CSE since July 2000, though as...
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    Juan Santamaría (category National Heroines and Heroes of Nicaragua)
    north and reached the city of Rivas, Nicaragua, on April 8, 1856. The battle that ensued is known as the Second Battle of Rivas. Combat was fierce and the...
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    municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in southwest Nicaragua. It is located 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Managua...
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  • ended in July 2010. Nicaragua and the following season, Survivor: Redemption Island, were filmed near San Juan del Sur in Rivas Department on the Pacific...
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  • Chile Belén (canton), Heredia, Costa Rica Belén, Honduras Belén, Rivas, Nicaragua Belén River, Panama Belén, Paraguay Beleń, Poland Belén, Uruguay Belen...
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    declined annexation, due to the ties its residents had with the city of Rivas, Nicaragua. Upon independence, Costa Rican authorities faced the issue of officially...
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  • Carlos Martínez Rivas (1924-1998) was a Nicaraguan poet, most famous for his poem "El paraíso recobrado" ("The recovered paradise"), a love poem first...
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    uniquely Nicaraguan idiom meaning that someone was stood up or left "holding the bag". The city of Tola in the department of Rivas, Nicaragua erected a...
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    18–24 kilometers across the isthmus of Rivas to reach Brito, a port on the Pacific Ocean in the Department of Rivas. The idea of constructing a manmade waterway...
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  • Tola is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua. Tola means "Land of Tula", or "Land of the Toltecs" and its etymology derives from Nahuatl...
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