Managua Department

Managua
Departamento de Managua
Managua Departamento de Managua
Department
Country	Nicaragua
Capital	Managua
Area
• Department	3,465 km2 (1,338 sq mi)
Population (2021 estimate)
• Department	1,559,774
• Density	450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
• Urban	1,454,904
ISO 3166-2	NI-MN

Managua (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈna.ɣwa]) is a department in Nicaragua. It covers an area of 3,465 km² and has a population of 1,559,774 (2021 estimate), making it the country's most populated department. The capital is the city of Managua, which is also the capital of Nicaragua. The department has two coastlines, on the Pacific Ocean and on Lake Managua, but does not border Lake Nicaragua. The Nahua chiefdom of Tekwantepet was located in the Managua department. According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Tekwantepet one of the last chiefdoms in present-day Nicaragua to fall to the conquistadors and their central Mexican allies.^[2]^[3]^[4] The chiefdom's name is a combination of the Nawat words tēkwani (jaguar),^[5] and tepet (hill),^[6] therefore the translation of Tekwantepet is "hill of jaguars" or "jaguar hill". The municipality of Ticuantepe located in the department is likely named after this chiefdom. The Indigenous inhabitants of Managua are the Chorotegas and Nahuas.

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References

^ Citypopulation.de Population of departments in Nicaragua
^ Vida de González Dávila, Gil. Ávila, c. 1480 – 21.IV.1526. Descubridor y conquistador. et al., 2012
^ Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierra-firme del mar océano; por el Capitán Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés; Primer Cronista del Nuevo Mundo; publícala la Real Academia de la Historia.- Tomo IV.- Libro XLII.- Capitulo XIII.
^ Colonización de américa, cuando la historia marcha, de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo c. 1480 - 1557, 2006
^ Campbell, Lyle (January 1, 1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 10–12. ISBN 978-3-11-088199-8.
^ "El Nawat de Cuzcatlan".