Central America’s great inland sea is over twice as large as Rhode Island, yet it encompasses some of the most pristine and peaceful parts of Nicaragua, a safe, inexpensive, and increasingly ...

Lake Nicaragua, the largest body of fresh water in Central America, is home to several species of fish found nowhere else in the world. The historic city of Granada is nearby and is another great side ...

At the southeasternmost end of Lake Nicaragua, where lazy currents split to escape the lake and form the Río San Juan and the Río Frío, sits La Esquina del Lago Jungle River Lodge, a rustic ...

Lake Nicaragua is comprised of 365 of these verdant and lush islands: one for each day of the year. You can buy an island for an average of $100,000 to $500,000 USD, depending on if the island is ...

This archipelago at the southern end of vast Lake Nicaragua was little known beyond the nation’s borders until Father Ernesto Cardenal, a poet and political activist, established a parish on the ...

About 1800 years ago, a volcano in northern Nicaragua exploded. The crater formed by the eruption slowly filled like a rain barrel. Eventually the water rose high enough to warrant the title of lake.

Weaker fish, like the rainbow bass, have been gradually disappearing from Lake Nicaragua as the number of tilapia has increased, said Ben Slow, a local fisherman.

But at the Aquafinca fish farm here, a modern miracle takes place daily: Tens of thousands of beefy, flapping tilapia are hauled out of teeming cages on Lake Yojoa, converted to fillets in a cold ...

But at the Aquafinca fish farm here, a modern miracle takes place daily: Tens of thousands of beefy, flapping tilapia are hauled out of teeming cages on Lake Yojoa, converted to fillets in a cold ...