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Nicaragua
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Figure 11. Transportation System, 1993
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Oil refinery near Managua
Courtesy Nicaraguan Tourism Institute
Most of Nicaragua's physical infrastructure was not
developed
until the 1950s. The Somoza dynasty built roads,
railroads, and
telecommunications in order to support the growing needs
of
exporters and of the related urban agro-industries in the
Pacific
lowlands. Although the Sandinista government improved the
road
system, much of the central highlands and Caribbean
lowlands
still remained inaccessible in the early 1990s.
Data as of December 1993
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