San Miguelito, RÃo San Juan
San Miguelito is a city in the south of Nicaragua. It is located in the department of Río San Juan on the eastern shore of Lake Nicaragua. The population was recorded in the census of 2005 in the urban area in 2807, in the whole congregation at 17 031. In the County of Rio San Juan, it is the third largest city next to San Carlos and El Castillo. The area of the municipality is 1096.59 square kilometers. The population density is 16 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Geography
San Miguelito located south of the Central American state of Nicaragua, near the border with Costa Rica at the huge Lake Nicaragua.
The Río San Juan, after whom the region is named, is the link between the Atlantic Ocean and Lake Nicaragua. A rainforest reserve is located practically on the doorstep. Likewise, the famous archipelago of Solentiname with its artist colony and an enchanting pristine tropical flora and fauna is only a two-hour boat ride away.
San Miguelito is divided into four major settlements, which in turn are surrounded by many small villages, farming communities. Las Palomas - Never Oporta Mancha de Coyol -El Tule.
The 17,000 residents of the community live in a small historic town center, by the shore of the lake stretching up the hill and makes a good impression and in many neighboring small villages and settlements. To the daily life of the capital next to the new health center, the yellow painted mayoralty, the hotel " Cocibolca " the ship jetty and the newly cobbled village with church and fountains are also many cobbled together from sheet metal parts, boards and plastic sheeting houses along unpaved paths, which in the rainy season mud sink.
Policy
Parish council
The Church is headed by a municipal council is made up as follows:
- Mayor and his deputy, the Vice Mayor
- Four city councils with their representatives
The council is advisory, the mayor administrative competencies that must be coordinated with the local council
The City Council is the highest authority of the government and the local government, their main objective is to guide the church in financial, political and social terms.
The following political parties working in the City Council:
- Partido Liberal Constitucionalista p.l.c.
- Partido Liberacion Nacional de Frente Sandisnista FSLN
- Partido de Conservador Nicaraguense P.C.N.
- Partido Camino Cristiano PCC
- Partido Alianza por la Republica APRE
Sister City
- Germany Waltrop, Germany
Nature Reserves
- Llano Grande
- Los Guanabanos
Economy and infrastructure
Frequent power outages and significant restrictions on the water supply have to take in everyday life to purchase the inhabitants. Most families are poor, but rich in children. Nicaragua is the poorest country after Haiti now Latin America. A nationwide high unemployment, sometimes up to 70 percent, among other things cause of the increasing misery of the people.
This also San Miguelito is not exempt. Many residents of the community are looking for in Costa Rica to make a living to support their families left behind at home financially. In Nicaragua, as well as in the region of San Miguelito one lives mainly from agriculture.
Twinning association
" Solidaridad ", the name of the twinning association means translated solidarity.
This exerts a group of Waltroper citizens since the mid- 1980s with the people of Nicaragua. The embossed poverty and underdevelopment Nicaragua was at this time the whole country in a harrowing civil war. Behind the effort to establish a partnership with a city from the so -called Third World, was also the will to leave a small flow from the little local wealth in those poor corner of the world. Solidarity should be concrete practical and bureaucratic. In addition to financial assistance was also the energetic use Waltroper local citizens. This initiative eventually in 1988 an official twinning.
Today, the work of the association focuses on the support of projects and initiatives in health, education, women's work and the cultural work in the twin city.
A new addition was the promotion of district work in the " Barrio Dos " in the capital Managua, for children and adolescents up new perspectives and opportunities are created in the. Led the club is in his work on the principle of helping people help themselves and the idea of equal rights relations with our partners.
Swell
11.4 - 84.9Koordinaten: 11 ° 24 'N, 84 ° 54 ' W
- Location in Nicaragua
- Department of Río San Juan