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San Juan de Nicaragua

San Juan del Norte, also known as Greytown and formerly as San Juan de Nicaragua or San Juan de la Cruz, is a small town and municipality in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua with an interesting history. In the 19th century, it found itself in the cross-hairs of empire builders from the United States and Great Britain. Wikivoyage

Population 1,307 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Nicaragua

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Nicaragua

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Getting around

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