Introduction
Managua looks like a bomb hit it. The city is a scattered, disheveled, and disorganized urban sprawl where everything is spread out and there is no center. The truth is a bomb did hit it, in the form of a massive earthquake in 1972. It flattened the city center, and planners decided it was pointless to rebuild on such a shifting tectonic nightmare again. The result is a ghost-downtown surrounded by dispersed, anonymous neighborhoods, pockmarked with craters and crisscrossed with streets that lack character as much as they lack names. It is a frustrating, bewildering place and easily the least accessible, the hardest to negotiate, the toughest to discover capital city in Central America.
If the city seems like one big accident, that is precisely because it is. Originally it had always been just a proud little indigenous fishing village on the shores of Lago Xolotlán -- proud enough to beat off the somewhat surprised and vengeful Spanish. But the small village suddenly found...
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Huellas de Acahualinca
Situated 2km (1 1/4 miles) north of the Telcor building on the way to the lake, this remarkable site displays 6,000-year-old footprints of men,...
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- Museums
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el tercer ojo managua
- relaxing, mystique, unique.... it is indeed the place for you to have a lovely dinner while enjoying the place with its music, atmosphere, the...
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Puerto Salvador Allende
- Take a cruise on the "Novia del Xolotlan" at this new port, where you can eat, shop and have a fun-filled family day ont the shore of the Lage...
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