Diriamba
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Coordinates: 11 ° 51 ′ N , 86 ° 14 ′ W Diriamba on the map of Nicaragua
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| Country |
 Nicaragua
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| Departments | Carazo | |
| City foundation | 1894 | |
| Residents | 57,512 | |
| - in the metropolitan area | 33,564 | |
| Detailed data | ||
| surface | 348.88 | |
| height | 580 m | |
| Waters | Río Limón, Río Grande, Río Amayito, Río La Flor, Río la Maquina. | |
| Time zone | UTC −6 | |
| City Presidency | Bismarck Ramón Pérez Paniagua, FSLN | |
| City patron | San Sebastian | |
Diriamba is a municipality in the Carazo department in the west of the Central American state of Nicaragua , between the Pacific and Lake Nicaragua .
It is in the Meseta de Los Pueblos
history
Diri means "hill" and Mba "big" in the language of the Chorotega . In legends there are reports of caciques - called Teytes - who ruled the land, as well as feuds, armed battles, robbery of women and hostage-taking.
In the Valle de Apompuá stood the cradle of Diriangén (* 1502 in Diriamba, † December 25, 1527 in Teyte Tenderí today Nindirí, Masaya), a prince of the Chorotega , who opposed the conquista . Diriangén's mother was Azcaxochil. Diriangén was described by the Spaniards as a strong, stocky Indigena with a beautiful face, considerable willpower, whose black eyes flashed in battle.
Diriangén and his army were able to hold back the advance of the greedy criminals under Gil Gonzáles Dávila for six years.
Diriangén agreed to a baptism and on April 17, 1522 set an ambush with around 4,000 armed indigenous people. This has meant that the conquistadors temporarily limited themselves to the shores of Lake Cocibolca , as the Llanos de Nandaime offered a safer crossing of the isthmus .
A legend describes a fight by Teyte Diriangén on the Boato Hastado , which is interpreted as Quebrada del Perro .
The second expedition under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (founder of Nicaragua) followed a route along the Sierras de Managua , on which no contact with troops from Diriangén was reported.
A legend describes the death of Diriangén on the Volcán Casitas , in the Cordillera de los Maribios .
This was followed by the Spanish colonial exploitation of the indigenous people , who were enslaved to slave labor in the mines of Las Segovias (the wild Nicaraguan north is still called Nueva Segovia today ), the Antilles or El Perú.
The foundation stone for the Basílica de San Sebastián was laid in 1891 and it was consecrated in 1931.
Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier was born here.
The municipality is home to the professional football club Diriangen Soccer Club .
Culture
El Güegüence , the rat man, is a strange dance from the Nahuatl culture . In 2006 this oral tradition was named Patrimonio Oral e Inmaterial de la Humanidad , UNESCO World Heritage .
The tradition of the Danza del Toro Huaco , which takes up the ideas of the Quetzalcoatl , is varied at popular festivals .
There is the figure of El Gigante , which has a Basque origin in the Gigante y Cabezón .
Other traditional dances are the morbidly tangy El baile del viejo y la vieja and the Bailes de las Inditas .
In addition, the Museo Ecologico Tropico Seco is located in Diriamba, which deals with flora and fauna, geography, and ecological problems such as environmental pollution in Nicaragua.
San Sebastian
The legend of how the image of San Sebastian came to Diriamba ascribes a will to the image, like the image of Santiago in Jinotope , which they enforce.
tourism
Diriamba borders the Pacific Ocean and has beaches with the La Boquita and Casares gang halls . It has handicrafts and nature reserves like La Maquina with a tropical forest and a waterfall with fauna.
Sports
The first division soccer club FC Diriangén is based in Diriamba . Its home ground is the Estadio Cacique Diriangén , which also hosts matches of the Nicaraguan national soccer team .
City partnership Saarbrücken-Diriamba
The Saarbrücker Diriamba-Verein eV was founded in 1984, at that time still as an association for the promotion of a town twinning Saarbrücken-Diriamba. After the first democratic elections in Nicaragua, ADECA was founded in Diriamba in 1990, the partner organization of the Diriamba Association. Since then, ADECA has been sending the association project ideas for financial support; Club members also work actively in these projects in Driamba. The association wants to help people in Diriamba and the surrounding area to find a self-determined way out of injustice, poverty and dependence. After the association carried out rather smaller projects in the first few years, it has also supported large projects since 2000.
Corredor Biologico Diriangén
The idea of protecting a Corredor Biologico Diriangén is more recent . About 85,000 tropical trees should be protected from destruction by the selection of expensive wood and 122 km² should be afforested.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Nuevo Diario , 18 de Enero de 2004, Güegüense y priostes gobiernan Diriamba ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ El Nuevo Diario , ene 20, 2007, Un negocio llamado Güegüence ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , es: Anexo: Patrimonio de la Humanidad en América
- ↑ Diriamba-Verein eVSaarbrücken ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: gob.ni, FICHA MUNICIPAL (PDF; 59 kB)
