¿Por qué casi nadie vive en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua, si ocupa la mitad del país?
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Nicaragua's Caribbean coast occupies almost half the country: it's larger than all of Costa Rica and has more people than all of Belize. And yet it's nearly empty. Only one in seven Nicaraguans lives there… while a single department, Managua, seventeen times smaller, has more inhabitants than the entire coast.
Why? It's not just the jungle. We've torn down, one by one, the five walls that separate the two Nicaraguas: a kingdom protected by the British, a city with a pirate's name, the bananas, timber, and gold that used to be shipped out, a highway that didn't reach Bluefields until 2019, and two Category 4 hurricanes in two weeks. And finally, the turning point: the coast is indeed filling up… but not in the way you might imagine.
💬 If you're from the Caribbean coast: before 2019, how long did it take you to get to Managua?
Sources: INIDE (population estimates), UNESCO, NHC/NOAA, IACHR/OAS, World Bank, IDB, Statistical Institute of Belize, University of Maryland via Mongabay, La Prensa, Confidencial, CNN.
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0:00 Introduction: Nicaragua divided in two
4:17 Wall 1: the rain
5:28 Wall 2: the flags
7:47 Wall 3: the money
9:17 Wall 4: no road
10:51 Wall 5: the hurricanes
11:46 The turn: the half that fills up
15:16 Let's go back to that journey: Managua, at dawn
#Nicaragua #CaribbeanCoast #Bluefields #Geography #Documentary #MundoIntenso #HistoryOfNicaragua #CentralAmerica
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¿Por qué casi nadie vive en la Costa Caribe de Nicaragua, si ocupa la mitad del país?
Mundo Intenso
10,572 views
Nicaragua's Caribbean coast occupies almost half the country: it's larger than all of Costa Rica and has more people than all of Belize. And yet it's nearly empty. Only one in seven Nicaraguans lives there… while a single department, Managua, seventeen times smaller, has more inhabitants than the entire coast.
Why? It's not just the jungle. We've torn down, one by one, the five walls that separate the two Nicaraguas: a kingdom protected by the British, a city with a pirate's name, the bananas, timber, and gold that used to be shipped out, a highway that didn't reach Bluefields until 2019, and two Category 4 hurricanes in two weeks. And finally, the turning point: the coast is indeed filling up… but not in the way you might imagine.
💬 If you're from the Caribbean coast: before 2019, how long did it take you to get to Managua?
Sources: INIDE (population estimates), UNESCO, NHC/NOAA, IACHR/OAS, World Bank, IDB, Statistical Institute of Belize, University of Maryland via Mongabay, La Prensa, Confidencial, CNN.
Like and subscribe to Mundo Intenso: each video reveals a different map.
0:00 Introduction: Nicaragua divided in two
4:17 Wall 1: the rain
5:28 Wall 2: the flags
7:47 Wall 3: the money
9:17 Wall 4: no road
10:51 Wall 5: the hurricanes
11:46 The turn: the half that fills up
15:16 Let's go back to that journey: Managua, at dawn
#Nicaragua #CaribbeanCoast #Bluefields #Geography #Documentary #MundoIntenso #HistoryOfNicaragua #CentralAmerica