Introducing Northern Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s scenery soars into the misty cloud forests of the Northern Highlands, where three ancient mountain chains conspire to fold away, into their thickly forested skirts, cathedrals and quetzales and tumbling waterfalls, not to mention some of the world’s best coffee and tobacco.
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The cities here are ancient, founded long before the gracefully fortified adobes were erected (as often by British pirates as by Spanish colonists), and many of them still go by their old names. The ridges and valleys between them gave local hero Augusto César Sandino the chance to start building his vision when he made his base here among the pines in the 1920s and ’30s. And later, the Contras and Sandinistas who fought in his name, would bury too many of their own in these granite hills.
This is where the Río Coco is born, flowing from the cloud forest to the steaming Caribbean, past campesino coffee cooperatives and indigenous villages, and into the mighty Bosawás.
Last updated: Oct 20, 2009
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