Pocosol River (Spanish pronunciation: [pokoˈsol]) is a river in northern Costa Rica.
Palcasa Airport (ICAO: MNPA) is an airport serving the town of El Castillo in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua. The airport is 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) north of El Castillo, midway between the small towns of La Palma and Las Colinas. It is surrounded by and supports the palm oil plantations of Palmares del Castillo S.A. (PALCASA).
El Castillo is a municipality located on the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. The settlement of what would eventually become the municipality of El Castillo began in 1673, when construction of the Fortaleza de la Limpia Pura e Inmaculada Concepción, (now known as the Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción, or Fortress of the Immaculate Conception) was begun. The village of El Castillo eventually grew around the fortress, which continued to be strategically important to the Captaincy General of Guatemala until the late 18th century.
Río San Juan (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o saŋ ˈxwan]) is a department in Nicaragua. It was formed in 1957 from parts of Chontales and Zelaya departments. It covers an area of 7,543 km2 and has a population of 137,189 (2021 estimate). The capital is San Carlos. The department also includes the Solentiname Islands archipelago and the San Juan River, after which it is named. Trinidad, in Río San Juan, is the most southerly point in Nicaragua.
San Miguelito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua.
San Carlos (Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ ˈkaɾlos]) is the capital city of the municipality of San Carlos and of the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua.
The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a 192-kilometre (119 mi) river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea. A large section of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica runs on the southern bank of the river. It was part, with the lake, of a proposed route for a Nicaragua Canal in the 19th century. The idea of the project has been revived in the last decade, including the possibility of other routes within the country. The Ecocanal project has obtained a Concession from the National Assembly of Nicaragua to re-open the San Juan River to commercial barge traffic.
San Carlos Airport (Spanish: Aeródromo de San Carlos) (IATA: NCR, ICAO: MNSC) is an airfield serving San Carlos, Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua. The domestic airline La Costeña has daily scheduled flights from Managua to San Carlos.
Morrito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. As of 2018 the current mayor is Eda Griselda Medina.
El Almendro (meaning "The Almond Tree") is a rural municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua.
El Castillo is a village of about 1,500 people situated on the southern bank of the Río San Juan (San Juan River) in southern Nicaragua. It is one of 27 comarcas of the municipality of El Castillo, a subdivision of the Río San Juan Department. The village is situated approximately 6 kilometers from the border with Costa Rica, at the Raudal del Diablo rapids of the San Juan River. The site on which the village of El Castillo is built was initially established in 1673 as a Spanish fortification to defend against pirate attacks upon the city of Granada (which can be reached by navigating upstream from the Caribbean Sea along the San Juan River into Lake Nicaragua). The settlement of El Castillo and its fortress continued to be strategically important to the Captaincy General of Guatemala until the late 18th century.
Frio River (Spanish: Río Frío) is a river of Costa Rica, Alajuela province. The last few kilometers it passes through Nicaragua.
Los Guatuzos Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio de Vida Silvestre Los Guatuzos) has an area of 437.5 km2 (168.9 sq mi) and is located south of Lake Nicaragua and west of the San Juan River in Nicaragua. Los Guatuzos is a protected area consisting of tropical wetlands, rainforest, and wildlife refuge, it is the only internationally registered tropical wetland area in Nicaragua.
Niño River is a river of Costa Rica.
The Solentiname Islands (Spanish pronunciation: [solentiˈname]) are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua (also known as Lake Cocibolca) in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan.
Boca de Sábalos is a jungle port village of about 2000 people at the confluence of Río Sábalos and Río San Juan, and is the capital of the municipality of El Castillo, Nicaragua. Once a timber boomtown, now African palm, orange and cacao plantations, along with an eco lodge and hotel, are making it a tourist destination, is a world class place for tarpon fishing, the area also host a few private natural reserve such as Reserva Silvestre Privada Montecristo a great place for birds and wildlife in the Río San Juan Department.