Chichigalpa
Sign in to saveChichigalpa () o Chichicapan (nahuat) is a town and municipality in the Chinandega Department of Nicaragua.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Chichigalpa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.native_name
- Chichigalpan (nahuat)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 270px|Fotografia del centro de la ciudad de Chichigalpa.
- Settlement.imagesize
- 270px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Chichigalpa.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nicaragua
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Nicaragua
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Chinandega Department
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Víctor Manuel Sevilla
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1839
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Pre-Columbian
- Colonial Period
- Geography
- Area
- Climate
- Today
- Sugarcane
- Neighborhoods (Barrios y Comarcas)
- References
- External links
- Bibliography
Chichigalpa () o Chichicapan (nahuat) is a town and municipality in the Chinandega Department of Nicaragua.
==History== ===Pre-Columbian=== It is presumed that Chichigalpa's first inhabitants arrived from the north. While their civilizations were not as advanced as those of the Aztecs and the Incans, they arrived at Chichigalpa due to a forced migration instituted by the Aztecs on weaker tribes. Of Toltec origin, the native people of Chichigalpa were presumed to be part of the Kingdom (Monexicado) of Chinandega and Tezoatega hence its name in nahuat nawat.