Chinandega Department
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Chinandega (Template:IPA) is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of Template: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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, Historia General y Natural de las Indias, pag. 127., tomo XI, Editorial Guarania. Asunción, Paraguay, 1945.</ref> 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.
Municipalities
- Chichigalpa
- Chinandega
- Corinto
- El Realejo
- El Viejo
- Posoltega
- Puerto Morazán
- San Francisco del Norte
- San Juan de Cinco Pinos
- San Pedro del Norte
- Santo Tomás del Norte
- Somotillo
- Villanueva