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Boca de Sábalos

populated place in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ18358913 ↗
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Boca de Sábalos is a jungle port village of about 2000 people at the confluence of Río Sábalos and Río San Juan, and is the capital of the municipality of El Castillo, Nicaragua. Once a timber boomtown, now African palm, orange and cacao plantations, along with an eco lodge and hotel, are making it a tourist destination, is a world class place for tarpon fishing, the area also host a few private natural reserve such as Reserva Silvestre Privada Montecristo a great place for birds and wildlife in the Río San Juan Department.

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“Boca de Sábalos” enters the record as populated place in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Boca, Sábalos and populated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Boca, Sábalos and populated.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18358913. Authority coordinates are 11.043, -84.472. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Boca de Sábalos” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.