Nicaragua is a country of Central America, located south of Honduras and north of Costa Rica. Spanning the isthmus, Nicaragua has coasts facing southwest on the Pacific Ocean and east on the Caribbean Sea. The most important port is Corinto, on the Pacific in the northwestern corner of the country. Low and fringed by dangerous reefs, the Caribbean coast has no major ports.
Additional information from visitors to any of these lighthouses would be very welcome.
Aids to navigation in Nicaragua are managed by the Aquatic Transport Directorate of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.
The Spanish word for a lighthouse is faro. In Spanish-speaking America, this word is used generally for all navigational lights, large and small, although smaller lights are also called balizas (beacons).
ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume J of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals for Caribbean lights and from volume G for Pacific lights. Light List numbers are from NGA Publication 110 for Caribbean lights and from Publication 111 for Pacific lights.
- General Sources
- Lighthouses of Other Regions
- Historic postcard views posted by Michel Forand.
Isla El Cardón Light, Corinto, May 2012
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photo by Larry Myhre
