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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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    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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    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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    Evidelia González (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    November 1997) is a Nicaraguan rower. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was one of the eight athletes who represented Nicaragua in these games...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    states Nicaragua Canal Panama Canal Florencio Xatruch Granada, Nicaragua, the colonial city that William Walker destroyed "Gobernantes de Nicaragua". Ministerio...
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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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    divided the territory into seven parties: Segovia, El Realejo, León, Granada, Nicaragua (Rivas), Nicoya and Costa Rica. After September 15, 1821, the signing...
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    Argüello (section Nicaragua)
    most commonly associated with the early settlers in the cities of Granada, Nicaragua and of Córdoba, Argentina, as well as throughout Mexico and, in the...
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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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    blanking the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 at Dodger Stadium. A native of Granada, Nicaragua, Martínez became the first pitcher born outside of the United States...
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    Fernando Chamorro Alfaro (category 19th-century Nicaraguan people)
    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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    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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    Jaime Morales Carazo (category People from Granada, Nicaragua)
    2012. Born to Carlos A. Morales Casco and Anita Carazo Arellano in Granada, Nicaragua, he obtained a degree in Industrial Relations at the American Institute...
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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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    Virginia Granada (born December 8, 1930) is an American nurse, humanitarian, and peace and social justice activist who resides in Nicaragua. She founded...
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