San Juan del Sur

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San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in southwest Nicaragua. It is located 140km south of Managua. San Juan del Sur is popular among surfers and is a vacation spot for many Nicaraguan families and foreign tourists.Its population is approximately 15,553, consisting largely of families engaged in fishing or the tourism industry and foreigners from the United States, Canada and Europe. While the local economy was, for many years, based on fishing and shipping, it has shifted towards tourism in the last 20 years. In October 2002, to mark the city's 150th anniversary, it was formally designated the "Port of San Juan del Sur" and a "Tourism City of Nicaragua."San Juan del Sur, set beside a crescent-shaped bay, was a popular resting place for gold prospectors headed to California in the 1850s. Correspondingly, San Juan del Sur served as a hub for Cornelius Vanderbilt Lines.San Juan del Sur is a pleasant place to vacation with local Nicaraguans mixing it up with tourists, some of whom now call the area their home. Travellers are coming to San Juan del Sur from all over the globe including Europeans and Americans. It is possible for cruise ships that have missed scheduled port call to dock and offload in the area. This influx of tourism feeds many of the intrinsic tourist dependent businesses in San Juan. This includes in the case of those visiting off of a cruise ship the plentiful boutiques and restaurants in San Juan del Sur. Also in San juan are about eleven established hostels. Accomidations of all kinds are available and there is real estate management present. Necessities are Available at fractions of the price USD. Cordoba are approximately 1:14 usd

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