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18 unusual facts about Bluefields


1876 Atlantic hurricane season

On the east coast of the country, 300 homes were destroyed at Bluefields.

1906 Florida Keys hurricane

The town of Bluefields suffered moderate damage during the hurricane, including downed trees and damage to roofs.

Abraham Blauvelt

Abraham Blauvelt (died 1663?) was a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the Bluefield River and the neighboring town of Bluefields, Nicaragua were named.

Bluefield

Bluefields, a similarly named city in Nicaragua's South Atlantic Autonomous Region

Dance in Nicaragua

Both the festival and dance are an Afro-Nicaraguan tradition which originated in Bluefields, Nicaragua in the 17th century.

Dimension Costeña

Dimensión Costeña is a Nicaraguan group that came together in the Caribbean coast of the country in Bluefields.

Evans Quinn

In February 2012, Quinn gunned down Raul Bennett Sambola in their mutual home town of Bluefields following a family feud.

George Augustus Frederic II

Perhaps the most notable of these initiatives was the expansion of the kingdom's center to the south, first to Bluefields and then to San Juan del Norte, where he cooperated, with the support of British naval forces, with the expulsion of the Nicaraguan garrison and the annexation of the town to the Miskito Kingdom in 1848.

Gustavus von Tempsky

He had been courting Emelia Ross Bell at the nearby British settlement of Bluefields (or Blewfields) before he left, but her father did not approve, probably because of his youth and lack of prospects.

Hugo Palma-Ibarra

His father, Idelfonso Palma Martínez, a doctor, and his mother, Inés Ibarra de Palma, from Bluefields; he has 4 sisters and 2 brothers.

Hurricane Cesar–Douglas

At about 0400 UTC on July 28, Hurricane Cesar made landfall just north of Bluefields, Nicaragua with winds of 75 mph (140 km/h).

London Borough of Lambeth

Lambeth also has twinning arrangements with Bluefields in Nicaragua; Moskvoretsky in Russia (although this is abeyance since changes to the city government of Moscow); Brooklyn, New York in the United States; Shinjuku in Japan; and Spanish Town in Jamaica.

Nicaragua Canal

# Route 2 goes from the town of Bluefields on the Caribbean Sea (Isla del Venado) via Rio Escondido to Lake Nicaragua.

Perfect English

Pickering was for a while under siege in the Nicaraguan town of Bluefields, where he helped former Baader-Meinhof printer, novelist and playwright, Peter-Paul Zahl, build a Bertolt Brecht youth theatre after his first was destroyed in the invasion of Grenada.

Providencia and Santa Catalina Islands

A forum titled "San Andres & Providencia" Islands of Colombia reads “…This heritage goes back to pre-colonial times, to the days of the Dutch sea captains who inhabited San Andres and Old Providence, one of whom founded Bluefields, naming it after himself…”

Sherburne Hopkins

Virtually a protectorate of the United States with marines occupying Bluefields on the Atlantic side of the country, Nicaragua invaded Honduras in 1908 to install a new, less hostile government there.

Timeline of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season

EDT (1200 UTC) – Tropical Depression Twelve forms 100 mi (160 km) east of Bluefields, Nicaragua.

Timeline of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season

:*12:00 am EDT (0400 UTC) – Hurricane Cesar makes landfall just north of Bluefields, Nicaragua, with 85 mph (135 km/h) winds.


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Avianca Nicaragua

Avianca Nicaragua operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations: Bluefields, Bonanza, Corn Islands, Managua, Puerto Cabezas, Rosita, San Carlos, Siuna and Waspam.

Ethnic groups in Central America

Nicaragua: There are 12,000 Chinese Nicaraguans Chinese people first arrived in Nicaragua's Caribbean coast in the latter part of the 19th century, and most of them settled in cities such as Bluefields, El Bluff, Laguna de Perlas, and Puerto Cabezas.

Scharllette Allen Moses

Scharllette Alexandra Allen Moses (born September 18, 1991) is a Nicaraguan beauty pageant titleholder from Bluefields who became the first black woman to win the title of Miss Nicaragua and represent her country in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.