Jinotepe, Carazo

Jinotepe on the map of Nicaragua

Jinotepe is a city in the south of Nicaragua between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific, county seat of Municipalities of the same name, the capital of the department of Carazo.

Coffee bourgeoisie

Carazo is a center of coffee production in Nicaragua. In Jinotepe the coffee of the surrounding coffee triangle is marketed, it was the administrative seat of the haciendas, while in the other municipios lived the servants, had Jinotepe, bourgeoisie. In its administrative area there is a Escuela Normal ( elementary school ), a Instituto Politécnico ( Fachhochschule ), also is a facility of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua ( UNAN - Managua), the Recinto Universitario de Carazo ( RUC ) with about 5,000 students in the former barracks of the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua housed. In Jinptoepe there is a private school, the Colegio San José.

Santiago

Santiago is the patron of many communities in Nicaragua. For Jinotepe the Nicaraguan version of his legend is available in detail, so here an origin is suspected. The variation of the Santiagolegende in Jinotepe is that his portrait was swimming on the beach of Huehuete. A storm has zerspannt the ship of Santiago and San Sebastian. The shrines of the two were found at about 1700 Zanja de Ambar from two indigenous Salineros from Carazo as a continuous material, but the two could not see Santiago from his shrine. They brought the crates to the Loma de Bartolo, a rock, where they settled certify the content of a priest. The pictures remained in the shrines and were brought on ox carts to the nearest places Diriamba or Jinotepe. When they tried in Diriamba to take the shrine with the image of Santiago from the cart, this proved to be very difficult, while the shrine of San Sebastian was as light as a feather. This included the transporters that San Sebastina wanted to stay in Dirimba while they drove on with Santiago to Jinotepe. Believers in Diriamba call San Sebastian Guachán and worship him with a solid mid-January.

San Sebastian Street Day

Santiago is revered in Jinotepe of many believers. Among the highlights of the year, the festival is the occasion of the landing of the two patron saints on 24 July. After the Mass, Santiago is carried on the shoulders for Beneficio Café de Santa Rosa, where he meets San Marcos from the same community. For burning of fireworks and shouting Viva Santiago, the two are to Dolores, the village which is situated halfway between Jinotepe and Diriamba supported. San Sebastián will appear in time for the appointment, accompanied by the traditional dances: Güegüense accompany El Macho Raton, El Toro Guaco, El Viejo y la Vieja, El baile del Gigante, Chago or Los Diablitos y las Inditas. In Dolores meet the three saints and enter into the church on the shoulders of one of their vehicles, where the population has gathered in the Parque Central and the churchyard, and they welcome you.

July 25

On July 25, the bishop is present, and the images of the saints are carried through the streets; to eat, there are specialties from Jinotepe:

Ayiaco

Autochthonous dish from Jinotepe: from corn dough, rice porridge, pork ribs, pineapple, Quelites ( herb leaves ) and Jocote Verde ( tree fruit).

There are also in the major-domos and hard participants Buñuelos and Nacatamales.

Hermitage

1739 was the Hermitage, which stood on the present site of the Banco Nacional de Desarrollo of Jinotope, badly damaged by an eruption of Volcan de Mombacho. 1751 visited the Bishop of the Diocese of Nicaragua Lic Fray Pedro Agustín Morel de Santa Cruz on a journey through his diocese the Hermitage. The bishop had previously ever seen the undestroyed Hermitage. 1811 visited Prior del Convento de Cartagena y caballero de la Cruz Isabel la Católica, Fray Nicolás García Jeréz the Hermitage. At that time, showed the first riots, which led to the solution of Spain in 1821, especially in Leon. 1852, the Hermitage was rocked by an earthquake. Until 1976 it was used by the municipalidad until they Rentas de Carazo demolished to build the building of the Banco Nacional.

Parish Church of Santiago Apóstol

1820 said Bishop Garcia Jerez, in Spain there is the custom that authorities would make significant contributions to the building of churches. The district de Xinotepet was four leagues long. The Cabildo de Españoles and the Cabildo de Indios represented together 5,200 souls, two priests, a Kongrua of 900 pesos and two real. ( 1 Peso = 8 Reales ). The Chairman of the Cabildo de Indios suggested during the negotiations around the church, that the lime Cabecera de don Gaspar would be called in kilns on the river at a place burned that provided by the Cabildo de Indios workers would cared that slaughter cattle from local production would come. Was started to transport lime entgeltlos. The architect Felipe Granera from Leon ( Nicaragua) planned and his masons were the construction manager. The Bauhaben was financed by wealthy local citizens in a weekly rhythm municipality officials were employed in construction. Part of the blindness of the Church consists of scoria, which was then labor intensive of 20 kilometers nursed by indigenous. The water was taken from sources on the northern outskirts of the village in Chaliapa.