Boaco
Nicaragua

Boaco is the capital city and municipality of the Boaco department of Nicaragua. Located on the hilly central region of Nicaragua, it is the economic hub of the agricultural and cattle ranching lands in its vicinity. Though it was founded at the end of the 19th century, it is still a small city or "large town". Boaco is called "La Ciudad de Dos Pisos", named by Dr. Armando Incer Barquero. The only two places that are like a table are: The Central Park and the Baseball Field. 

Ciudad de Nicaragua, capital del departamento de Boaco. Su población es de 29.000 habitantes (2005). La ciudad está rodeada de montañas y a su vez se encuantre situada en las faldas de una colina, lo que le ha hecho desarrollarse a dos alturas de la misma y recibir el sobrenombre de "Ciudad de Dos Pisos". La ciudad también es famosa por su queso, sus sillas de montar y sus botas de cuero. Su iglesia parroquial data de mediados del siglo XIX y en ella se pueden admirar algunos ejemplos de escultura precolombina. Junto a la misma se encuentra el parque central desde el que se puede admirar una bonita vista de la ciudad.

Altagracia, Ometepe Nicaragua    Children playing in sand with volcano    Rama indians dwellings Atlantic Coast Nicaragua    Granada Nicaragua
Jinotega mountains Nicaragua   Lake Nicaragua    Reflexions on water    Nicaraguan beach    Sacuanjoche | Frangipani | Plumeria    San Juan del Sur City
San Juan del sur beach    Volcano and tree    Concepcion Volcano

Paintings of Nicaragua:

Being Nicaragua a land of Lakes and Volcanoes, located in the tropics, with beautiful beaches, the ones in the Pacific Coast with dark volcanic sand and the ones in the Atlantic Coast with white sand. The landscape is more dramatic, sunsets have strong colors and seascapes are spectacular.

Nicaragua has two lakes, Cocibolca or Nicaragua Lake and Xolotlan or Managua Lake. Both lakes are beautiful and have Volcanoes on them. Xolotlan has the peninsula of Chiltepe, Momotombo and Momotombito. Cocibolca Lake or Granada Lake has the Ometepe Island, in front of Rivas, with two Volcanoes, the Concepcion Volcano and Maderas volcano.

The Major volcanoes in Nicaragua are, Cerro Negro, Concepción (volcano), Cosiguina, Las Lajas (volcano), Las Pilas, Maderas, Masaya Volcano, Mombacho.

We have San Juan del Sur in Rivas and beautiful Colonial Cities as Granada and Leon. Nicaragua has many artesans and they sell their art in Masaya market.

Nicaragua's folklore is present with it's dances as Los diablitos, La gigantona, El Viejo y la Vieja, El toro huaco, El baile de las inditas (The female indian's dance) and of course El Gueguense.

During the religious festivities as Las fiestas de Santiago or the celebration of Saint Sebastian or San Marcos, people parade with their horses and it is calle La Hipica. In December, The Immaculate conception is celebrated (La Purisima) along the whole Country.

Nicaragua's Colonial Churches are examples of architectural beauty and many of them house valuable pieces of art as The Cathedral of Leon, Parroqua de San Sebastian in Diriamba, Parroquia de Santiago apostol in Jinotepe, etc.

The hot tropical weather changes when you go tho the North, toward Matagalpa and Jinotega, Esteli and Nueva Segovia, which have mountains and the altitud turns the calid tropic into cold weather.

The tropics affect the colors in nature, being these more saturated and primaries. Flowers are more intense in saturation and some are fragile as our National flower, frangipani or sacuanjoche.

Flora and Fauna are abundant, we find iguanas and Nicaragua is one of the few places in the world where turtles come. Tropical birds with exotic colorfull feathers as parrots or cockatees, monkeys are abundant, as well as poisonous snakes.

Boaco Nicaragua, Atelier Yoyita Galería de arte Derechos Reservados 1976-2013 Dra.Gloria M. Sánchez Zeledón. Click to contact the artist