San Juan del Sur, Rivas Department, Nicaragua

Nicaragua Canal | U.S. Intervention | The 1992 Tsunami

🇳🇮 San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in south-west Nicaragua. It is located 140 km (87 mi) 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 consists largely of families engaged in fishing, tourism or food and beverage 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.

A statue of the Christ of the Mercy sits above town on the northern end of the bay. The Mirador del Cristo de la Misericordia sits on one of the highest points on the bay and is one of the tallest Jesus statues in the world.

The town is near the site where Survivor: Nicaragua and Survivor: Redemption Island were filmed. Those seasons aired in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The 29th U.S. Survivor season, Survivor: San Juan del Sur (2014), was also filmed there, as was Season 30, Survivor: Worlds Apart, which aired in 2015. San Juan del Sur has become a hot spot for international surfing competition.

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Nicaragua Canal San Juan del Sur is the port on the Pacific that has been focus of many historic and modern day Nicaragua Canal proposals because of its location on the narrow isthmus of Rivas between the Pacific Ocean and Lake Nicaragua.

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U.S. Intervention U.S. backed forces engaged in armed conflict in San Juan del Sur on March 7, 1984.

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The 1992 Tsunami On September 2, 1992, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the central coast of Nicaragua generated a tsunami that devastated many communities along the Pacific Coast. Run-up values along the coast ranged from 2m in the north and south to up to 10m in some central locations. Run-up values in San Juan del Sur were approximately 5m. As a result of the tsunami an estimated 60% of homes in the community were destroyed, approximately 800 residents were displaced, and businesses and homes along the Malecón suffered severe damage.

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San Juan del Sur was ranked #582 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. San Juan del Sur has a population of over 15,555 people. San Juan del Sur also forms part of the wider Rivas Department which has a population of over 183,611 people. San Juan del Sur is situated near Rivas.

Twin Towns, Sister Cities an Juan del Sur has links with:

🇩🇪 Giessen, Germany 🇺🇸 Newton, USA 🇳🇴 Sauda, Norway 🇺🇸 Virginia Beach, USA
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Antipodal to San Juan del Sur is: 94.137,-11.249

Locations Near: San Juan del Sur -85.8633,11.249

🇳🇮 Rivas -85.817,11.433 d: 21.1  

🇳🇮 Granada -85.962,11.93 d: 76.5  

🇳🇮 Jinotepe -86.2,11.85 d: 76.2  

🇳🇮 Diriamba -86.233,11.85 d: 78  

🇨🇷 Liberia -85.458,10.633 d: 81.5  

🇳🇮 Masaya -86.096,11.974 d: 84.5  

🇳🇮 San Rafael del Sur -86.45,11.85 d: 92.5  

🇳🇮 Managua -86.26,12.118 d: 105.9  

🇳🇮 Tipitapa -86.096,12.197 d: 108.4  

🇳🇮 Ciudad Sandino -86.347,12.164 d: 114.6  

Antipodal to: San Juan del Sur 94.137,-11.249

🇮🇩 Bengkulu 102.25,-3.783 d: 18795.3  

🇮🇩 Bengkulu City 102.264,-3.792 d: 18794.8  

🇮🇩 Liwa 104.083,-5.033 d: 18720.9  

🇮🇩 Padang 100.355,-0.951 d: 18680  

🇮🇩 Pringsewu 104.961,-5.356 d: 18656.3  

🇮🇩 Teluk Dalam 97.8,0.55 d: 18642.1  

🇮🇩 Sawahlunto 100.777,-0.681 d: 18629.9  

🇮🇩 Padang Panjang 100.429,-0.458 d: 18628.4  

🇮🇩 Bandar Lampung 105.267,-5.45 d: 18631.7  

🇮🇩 Bukittinggi 100.367,-0.3 d: 18616.6  

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