Prinzapolka

Prinzapolka on the map of Nicaragua

Prinzapolka, Principulco or Prinzapolca is a municipality in the Región Autónoma del Atlántico Norte department of Nicaragua, at the mouth of the 254 km long Rio Prinzapolca in the Caribbean. The county town of Prinzapolca is Alamikamba.

History

The name belonged to the Sumoindigenas Prinsus which were in 1860 by the Miskito community of Wankluwa who lived 53 kilometers south of the junction of the Prinzapolka, Barra de Prinzapolka sold.

According to the Treaty on the membership of the Miskito coast, after the trains bondage to Granada Confederation to Nicaragua by José Santos Zelaya in 1894, was one of the today's municipality of Puerto Cabezas, Bonanza and Rosita, later the administration was only in Rosita today the municipality is independent. From about 1850 to 1979 of the Río Prinzapolca was used as a transport route for valuable goods. These goods were: gold, silver, copper, zinc, wood and bananas. The goods were exploited by U.S. companies. From 1916 and 1921, the company Fidden Minning and Tonopah used the Río Bambana and the Río Prinzapolka to transport gold to the Caribbean, where it was loaded onto ships. The La Luz and Los Angeles Minning Company Women of ethnicity Sumo From 1916 to 1928 her wear each 40 kg of gold from their mines to the Río Wani, on the Río Wani happened the transport in dugout canoes with 12 rowers Caribbean shipping took nine days. In 1930, the Green Star Company by an agreement with the Communities, with the cultivation of bananas for export. 1930 proposed the Waddens Prinzapolka Company spruce wood from the fields Prinzapolka and Bambana one. From 1930 to 1980, the Neptune Gold Minning Company exploited from. 1942 began the Rubber Reserve Corporation with the Siphon of natural rubber from Castilla elastica, Palo de Hule as strategic asset for the U.S., for 13 airstrips were built in a Alamikamba, which has become the main transport axis of the precious metal mines in the region. 1947 was signed by the Nicaraguans Adán Hislop and Mónico Largaespada a contract with U.S. company for logging of precious woods, such as mahogany plants, ( caoba ) and Cedrela tubiflora ( cedro real), which was then operated for 25 years. 1953 started mining companies streets between Siuna, Rosita and Bonanza as well as a branch to Alamikamba. From 1957 to 1958, the mining company built the harbor of Puerto Isabel 5 km south of Barra de Prinzapolka the transition over the Prinzapolka. As a port of embarkation for the ships with export and import products. The company sold the population from the edge of the rivers and these formed the existing communities today. The rights of indigenous communities on which they live as legal owner of the regions essential. They were fought in long struggles of the Miskito, Sumus, Mayagnas, Rama and Garífonas. Since 1956 there is a Ley de Autonomía in which the rights of the inhabitants are described. In 1974, the communities of Alamikamba and Tasbapouni before the district court in Puerto Cabezas were cited by a U.S. entrepreneur group and accused them, they would have occupied their own land. Roberto Edward Merrick Burlinson, Joseph Patten, Brown Keller, Richard Clarence, Twist Giltne and Paul Stauder Morales, represented by Hodgson Hodgson complained to the evacuation of 58 888 ha