Nicaragua Map Facts
Nicaragua ties with Haiti as the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.

Nicaragua is the center country of Central America, and it is also the largest.

Lake Nicaragua, which is called Lago Cocibolca in Nicaragua, is the largest lake in Central America. It is known for its freshwater bull sharks, which were for a long time thought to be a unique freshwater species. In fact, bull sharks frequest freshwater, and are known to have swum upstream the Mississippi as far as St. Louis.

Nicaragua Timeline

8,500 BC Footprints found in Nicaragua from this era.


6,000 BC Evidence of the existence of the 'shell collectors' on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.

1821 Independence from Spain declared.

1847. The British invade San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua.

1850: The United States and Great Britain sign a treaty which grants them access to a trade route through Nicaragua; without the consent of the Nicaraguans.