• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?

Facts on topics related to Anastasio Aquino

El Salvador

• El Salvador has the highest geothermal energy production in Central America?
• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?
• Father Charles Beirne, S.J., advised the United States on Latin American affairs while serving as vice president of Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador?
• around 80 percent of El Salvador's forests are associated with shade coffee plantations?
• the 1980 novel One Day of Life was banned in El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations by the government's paramilitary organization, Organización Democrática Nacionalista?
• the Mesoamerican archaeological site of Quelepa in eastern El Salvador was distinguished by its unusual ramped pyramids?
• the important Mesoamerican archaeological site of Cara Sucia in El Salvador was severely damaged by looters after the Land Reform Programme of 1980?

Nicaragua

• Hurricane Michelle (pictured), a storm which took place in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season, caused numerous deaths and large-scale damage in Jamaica, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua?
• Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America?
• Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas?
• Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem, was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
• tourism is Nicaragua's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
• William Gore Ouseley (pictured), a diplomat noted for representing British interests in Nicaragua and Honduras, found one of the earliest sources for the pantomime story of Dick Whittington's cat?
• in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S.?
• the Catholic Church denied the German-Nicaraguan Enrique Gottel burial in a Managua cemetery because he was a Freemason?
• the Nicaraguan Rice Rat is one of only two mammals endemic to Nicaragua?

Costa Rica

• Corcovado National Park is the only national park in which all of Costa Rica's four native monkey species can be found?
• John Biehl, a Chilean government minister in the 1990s, led the successful campaign for Costa Rican president Óscar Arias to win the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize?
• José Francisco de Peralta was elected to represent Costa Rica to the Constituent Congress of the Mexican Empire, but it was dissolved before he was able to participate?
• Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas?
• Tortuguero National Park (pictured) is the third-most visited park in Costa Rica, despite the fact that it can only be reached by airplane or boat?
• the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee, popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica, prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia?
• the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica?
• the Irazú volcano in Costa Rica erupted violently in 1963, on the day U.S. President John F. Kennedy arrived in the country for a state visit?
• the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?

Federal Republic of Central America

• Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then-Federal Republic of Central America?