Chinandega Department

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Chinandega (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and has a population of 441,897 (2021 estimate). The indigenous inhabitants of Chinandega are the Chorotegas and the Nahuas, and was the location of the pre-Columbian Nahua kingdom of Teswatlan.[1][2][3] The capital is the city of Chinandega.

Largely agricultural, it produces rum from sugar cane; other products are bananas, peanuts, shrimp and salt.

The port of Corinto, in Chinandega, is the most important in Western Nicaragua.

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  3. Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, Historia General y Natural de las Indias, pag. 127., tomo XI, Editorial Guarania. Asunción, Paraguay, 1945.

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