It was said that there was a chief named Caripe, whose son, named Caripito ('little Caripe') went down the Caripe river towards its confluence with the Río San Juan (which empties into the Golfo de Paria near the Orinoco River delta) and founded the town of Caripito in the lowlands.
It crashed near San Carlos, Río San Juan, killing three of its four crew; the fourth, Eugene Hasenfus, had parachuted to safety, but was captured within 24 hours.
Los Chiles was originally settled by fisherman and others who worked on the nearby Río San Juan in Nicaragua.
The region includes the Tuxtla Mountains and stretches from Laguna Alvarado, along the Gulf of Mexico, to Laguna del Ostión, then along the westernmost tributaries of Laguna del Ostión, to the northernmost tributaries of Río Coatzacoalcos, then along the Río San Juan to its merger with Río Papaloapan flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
San Francisco | Rio de Janeiro | San Diego | San Salvador | San Antonio | Rio Grande do Sul | San Pedro Sula | San Juan | San Diego Padres | San Francisco Giants | Rio Grande | San Sebastián | San Francisco 49ers | San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco Bay Area | Rio de Janeiro (state) | University of California, San Diego | San Jose | San José | San Francisco Bay | San Francisco Opera | San Marino | San Lorenzo | San José, Costa Rica | San Miguel de Tucumán | San Fernando Valley | San Diego Chargers | San Miguel | San Francisco Symphony |
The opposite occurs in regions like the Rio San Juan or Rivas, where the S at the end of words is frequently pronounced.
The Universidad Paulo Freire (Spanish: Universidad Paulo Freire (UPF)), located in Managua, Nicaragua, with branches in Diriamba, Río San Juan and Matagalpa.