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Municipality in Río San Juan, Nicaragua
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San Juan del Norte, also known as Greytown and formerly as San Juan de Nicaragua or San Juan de la Cruz, is a small town and municipality in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua with an interesting history. In the 19th century, it found itself in the cross-hairs of empire builders from the United States and Great Britain.
This place caters mostly to sport-fishers
By plane
There is an airport with regular flights to and from Managua via San Carlos. For more see La Costeña's website.
By boat
You can get there from San Carlos with a 6-hour boat trip (that's the fast boat, the slow one takes 11 hours) which leaves San Carlos Tu Th F at 06:00.
The town is entirely walkable and everywhere, where you can't walk you will have to take a boat.
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