Nicknamed the "Pearl of the North" (the pearl of the North) of Nicaragua. The city is located at 700 m above sea level, surrounded by a «emerald pine collier» (like a popular song), Matagalpa, like Jinotega, suffered from revolutions and counter-revolutions in the 1970-1980 s (Carlos Fonseca, the father of the Sandinista revolution, was born there, like Tomás Borge).Eparpillée on several cerros (hills), it is not a beautiful city but the surroundings lend itself to all kinds of excursions, and the fresh air of the heights is a good surprise after the desert heat of León or the tropical wetness of the Caribbean coast. According to historians, the name of the city would come from the náhuatl and would mean pueblo pueblo (confused village).From the end of the th century, an important German wave of immigration contributed to the surrounding mountains; the governments of Pedro Joaquim Chamorro and Evaristo Carrazo accepted 350 ha and 20 000 feet of coffee per head - on land confiscated from indigenous peoples in the region, which was révoltèrent in 1881 (these same lands were confiscated from Germans during the two world wars, Nicaragua made the choice to be the enemy of the Axis powers).The first settlers would have landed on California's Road during the gold rush, preferring to settle on these fertile lands rather than hypothéquer their future in the quest for an unlikely deposit. Today's residents inherited a few blond mèches and céruléens eyes.The Matagalpa department is one of the most productive in the country; rice, maize, beet and carrots are cultivated (especially around the town of Sebaco, which marks the branch line towards Estelí and Matagalpa), and horticulture is varied. Cattle fattened in peace (!).Small lakes of altitude are excellent for fishing. The main culture is, of course, that of coffee, imported by the first German settlers, but the global fall in prices in recent years seriously disrupted the economic serenity of that region.In town, we are referring to the two main places: Rubén Darío, south, where cheap establishments concentrate; and that of Morazán, more north, where the cathedral stands, built between 1874 and 1903.

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