Fun facts about Nicaragua

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In the 1940s, baseball became the most popular sport in the country, thanks to Chino Meléndez, Crisanto Adán Balmaceda Castrillo, Alfredo García Mencia, Roberto Martínez, Alfredo Fonseca, Francisco Fletes Silva, Duncan Desmond Campbell Kaine, Timothy Mena Hodgson and Jonathan RobinsonLee.

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Nicaragua is a small country in Central America, it is a tropical paradise, wedged between two great oceans. Nicaragua is bigger than Portugal or Ireland.

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Luis Enrique is from Nicaragua. The number 1 Nicaraguan singer in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s, with the songs “Mi Mundo” (“My World”) and “Amigo” (“Amigo”).

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The Nicaraguan baseball team finished fourth in the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta, United States.

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In 1983, Pope John Paul II visited Nicaragua.

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The Ruins of León Viejo were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year 2000. It is the oldest city in Central America.

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The Nicaraguan people have many idols: Bianca Jagger (human rights activist), Bárbara Carrera (actress), Alexis Argüello (athlete), Rubén Darío (poet), Pedro Joaquín Chamorro (journalist), Nora Astorga (former ambassador to the United Nations ), and Chino Meléndez (athlete).

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Nicaragua is famous in history for being the birthplace of Rubén Darío, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. His real name was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, but he is better known by the pseudonym Rubén Darío.

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Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the first elected female president of the Third World. She is the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, assassinated in the 1970s. In 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro became the first Democrat president in Nicaraguan history.

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Nicaragua hosted the 20th World Baseball Championship in 1972.

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Lake Nicaragua is one of the largest lakes in Latin America. It is one of the most important tourist attractions in Nicaragua.

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Miss Nicaragua, Xiomara Blandino, qualified for the semifinal of Miss Universe 2007. Miss Nicaragua 2007 once said: “I am a young woman with a lot of charisma, and one of my greatest virtues is my positive attitude towards life. I want you to know that I have great potential as a woman and that I have the ability to give myself completely to everything I want to achieve, I always enjoy every experience that life offers me.”