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El Pedernal Destination Guide

Discover El Pedernal in Nicaragua

El Pedernal in the region of Río San Juan is a town located in Nicaragua - some 101 mi or ( 163 km ) South-East of Managua , the country's capital .

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Local time in El Pedernal is now 02:37 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Managua " with a UTC offset of -6 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Tegucigalpa, Rivas, Palo Verde, Masaya, and Managua. When in this area, you might want to check out Tegucigalpa . Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in El Pedernal ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Interesting facts about this location

San Miguelito, Río San Juan

San Miguelito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. San Miguelito is twinned with the town of Waltrop, Germany

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Located at 11.40 -84.90 (Lat./Long.); Less than 6 km away
Tags: Municipalities of the Río San Juan Department, Populated places in Nicaragua

Nicaragua Canal

This article documents the historical inter-oceanic canal, not to be confused with the smaller Ecocanal project - a shallow draft waterway to link the Lake of Nicaragua to the Caribbean - see Ecocanal. The Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal is a proposed waterway through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Such a canal would follow rivers up to Lake Nicaragua and then 10+km through the isthmus of Rivas to reach the Pacific.

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Located at 11.50 -85.00 (Lat./Long.); Less than 10 km away
Tags: Banana Wars, Canals in Nicaragua, Proposed canals, Proposed infrastructure in Central America, Transport in Nicaragua

Morrito

Morrito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. As of 2009 the current mayor is Eda Medina. The total population of the municipality is approximately 1,700 “town” residents and 5,000 rural inhabitants, with includes a total of about 3,000 people under the age of 16 years old (Morrito, 2002). The main pueblo, also named Morrito, has a population of 1,700 living in 250 houses (Eda, 2008). Other estimates put the population at 1,958 residents (OPS, 2008).

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Located at 11.62 -85.08 (Lat./Long.); Less than 26 km away
Tags: Municipalities of the Río San Juan Department, Populated places in Nicaragua