San Juan del Sur
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The beach at San Juan del Sur taken from the Christ of the Mercy.
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 San Juan Del Sur
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| Coordinates: 11°15′N 85°52′W / 11.250°N 85.867°WCoordinates: 11°15′N 85°52′W / 11.250°N 85.867°W | |
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 Nicaragua
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| Department | Rivas Department |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 411 km2 (159 sq mi) |
| Population (2005) | |
| • Municipality | 15,553 |
| • Urban | 7,220 |
| Time zone | Nicaragua Standard Time (UTC-6) |
 Nicaragua
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| Location | San Juan del Sur Rivas Department |
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| Coordinates | 11°14′35.0″N 85°52′51.2″W / 11.243056°N 85.880889°W |
| Year first constructed | 1900 (first) |
| Construction | masonry tower |
| Tower shape | tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and light on a mast |
| Markings / pattern | white tower |
| Height | 4.5 metres (15 ft) |
| Focal height | 30 metres (98 ft) |
| Light source | solar power |
| Range | 16 nautical miles (30 km; 18 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl W 6s. |
| Admiralty number | G3350 |
| NGA number | 15440 |
| ARLHS number | NIC-004 |
| Managing agent | Aquatic Transport Directorate |
San Juan del Sur is a municipality and coastal town on the Pacific Ocean, in the Rivas department in southwest Nicaragua. It is located 140 kilometres (87 mi) south of Managua. San Juan del Sur is popular among surfers and is a vacation spot for many Nicaraguan families and foreign tourists.
Its population is approximately 15,553, consisting largely of families engaged in fishing or the tourism industry and foreigners from the United States, Canada and Europe. While the local economy was, for many years, based on fishing and shipping, it has shifted towards tourism in the last 20 years. In October 2002, to mark the city's 150th anniversary, it was formally designated the "Port of San Juan del Sur" and a "Tourism City of Nicaragua."
San Juan del Sur, set beside a crescent-shaped bay, was a popular resting place for gold prospectors headed to California in the 1850s. Correspondingly, San Juan del Sur served as a hub for Cornelius Vanderbilt Lines.
San Juan del Sur is a pleasant place to vacation with local Nicaraguans mixing it up with tourists, some of whom now call the area their home. Travellers are coming to San Juan del Sur from all over the globe including Europeans and Americans . It is possible for cruise ships that have missed scheduled port call to dock and offload in the area. This influx of tourism feeds many of the intrinsic tourist dependent businesses in San Juan. This includes in the case of those visiting off of a cruise ship the plentiful boutiques and restaurants in San Juan del Sur. Also in San juan are about eleven established hostels. Accomidations of all kinds are available and there is real estate management present. Necessities are Available at fractions of the price USD. Cordoba are approximately 1:14 usd
A statue of the Christ of the Mercy sits above town on the northern end of the bay. The Mirador del Cristo de la Misericordia sits at on one of the highest points on the bay and is one of the tallest Jesus statue in the world.
The town is near the site where Survivor: Nicaragua and Survivor: Redemption Island were filmed. Those seasons aired in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The 29th U.S. Survivor season, Survivor: San Juan del Sur (2014), was also filmed there, as was Season 30, Survivor: Worlds Apart, which aired in 2015. San Juan del Sur has become a hot spot for international surfing competition.
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