Maps from the 1800s show a different route that takes advantage of a river along the now-disputed border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Skip to main content Menu ...

The proposed canal would pass through Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake, and will be between 230 meters and 520 meters (755 feet to 1,706 feet) wide and 27.6 meters (90 feet) deep ...

The water in Lake Nicaragua, Central America’s largest lake, is currently suitable for drinking, irrigation and “other ecosystem services essential to Nicaragua’s economy”. The lake is particularly ...

Climb a volcano, barter for handicrafts at an Indian market and take a cruise on the largest lake in Central America during this eight-day tour of Nicaragua, where culture, history and nature ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua's government and Hong Kong-based HKND Group on Monday unveiled the route of a proposed $40 billion inter-ocean canal to compete with the Panama Canal that ...

This archipelago at the southern end of vast Lake Nicaragua was little known beyond the nation’s borders until Father Ernesto Cardenal, a poet and political activist, established a parish on the ...