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Encyclopedia Britannica



CORINTO

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 154 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CORINTO , a seaport on the Pacific
coast
  of
Nicaragua
 , in the department of
Chinandega
 , built on the small
island
  of Asserradores or Corinto, at the entrance to Realejo Bay, 65 m. by rail N.W. of
Managua
 . Pop. (1900) about 3000. The town, which was founded in 1849, and first came into prominence as a port in 1863, has a spacious and sheltered harbour, the best in
Nicaragua
 . It possesses no docks or wharves, and vessels anchor some 500 yds. off-shore to load or discharge cargo by means of lighters. On the mainland is the terminus of a railway to Leon,
Managua
  and other commercial centres. Coffee, gold,
mahogany
 ,
rubber
  and cattle are largely exported; and more than half the foreign
trade
  of Nicaragua passes through this port, which has completely superseded the roadstead of Realejo, now partly filled with sandbanks, but from 1550 to 185o the
principal
  seaport of the country. About 450 ocean-going ships, of some 450,000 tons, annually enter the port. Most of, the foreign vessels are owned in Germany or the United States. The
coasting
 
trade
  is restricted to Nicaraguan boats.


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