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Key facts
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Capital
- Estelí
- Total
- 2,230 km (860 sq mi)
- Density
- 105/km (271/sq mi)
- Iso 3166 2
- NI-ES
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Nicaragua
- Contains
- San Nicolás
- Capital
- Estelí
- Population
- 201548
- Area
- 2230
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Chinandega Department
- Image
- Esteli Nicaragua Skyline from Tisey.jpg
- Licence plate code
- ES
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- Commons category
- Estelí Department
- topic's main category
- Category:Estelí Department
- inception
- 1891-12-08
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Esteli is an administrative division and department in northern Nicaragua. The city of Estelí serves as the capital of the department. Situated on the Pan American Highway, it forms the gateway to the Las Segovia region and northern Honduras. The valleys in the department form an important center of tobacco cultivation, and the associated cigar industry.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Estelí Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.