page_title: Jinotega Department
section_title: Points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Jinotega Department / Points of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Jinotega, Nicaragua
context_page_description: Jinotega is a department of Nicaragua. Its departmental head is Jinotega. It is located in the north of the country, on the border with Honduras.
  The Department of Jinotega has a population of 452,973 inhabitants in 2017 and an area of 9,222.40 km². It is one of the 15 most extensive departments in the country. Founded on October 15, 1891.
  The city of Jinotega "Las Brumas" is the departmental capital of the homonymous department with an urban population of 53 265 inhabitants in the year 2017. It is located in a valley at an altitude of 1,003.87 meters above sea level with a cool climate at an average temperature of 25 °C and a distance of 142 km from Managua.
  Source: National Institute for Development Information - Nicaragua. Statistical Yearbook 2016 - 18
  The department generates its own power through Lake Apanás Dam, which is also a tourist attraction. Isabelia Mountain Range contains several cloud forests peaks and massifs such as Chimborazo, Datanlí Diablo with "la Bujona" waterfall. Also, Penas Blancas Massif containing several water drops, and Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, the largest biosphere reserve in Central America with about 22,000 sq km.
context_section_description: There are various restaurants and markets throughout the department of Jinotega, that serve various fruits, vegetables, meats, and drinks.  The city of Jinotega is in the vicinity of the artificial Lake Apanas.  The town of San Rafael del Norte located about 20 minutes north of Jinotega City, was General Sandino's Headquarters against US Marine's forced occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s and early 1930s.  San Rafael has a really nice neoclassical parrish church across the leafy Main Square, and a small museum dedicated to Sandino and his wife Blanca Arauz.
caption: City of  Jinotega
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