Click on Thumbnails for
full-sized pictures

NICARAGUA

Nicaragua is the largest and least densely populated country of Central America. It borders on Honduras on the North, The Caribbean Sea on the east, Costa Rica on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. A tropical land of lakes and volcanoes, cool mountains, torrid plains, and sweltering jungles, it is home to an ethnically diverse population of mestizos (persons mixed white and Indian ancestry), white, Indians, and blacks. As in the rest of central America, the economy is based on agriculture. Nicaragua is the land of poets; Ruben Dario is the cultural figure and the founder of Spanish American modernism.