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León Viejo could be a World Heritage website in Nicaragua. It absolutely was the first location of León. It’s the current location of the city of Puerto Momotombo within the Municipality of los angeles Paz Centro of the Department of León. It’s is run by the Instituto Nicaragüense First State Cultura (Nicaraguan Institute of Culture). León Viejo was supported on Gregorian calendar month fifteen, 1524 by the Spanish explorer, Francisco Hernández First State Córdoba, WHO was beheaded in its Plaza civil authority (Major Plaza) in 1526 by Pedrarias Dávila, his Lieutenant.
This town, in alternative time owner-occupied for the primary colonists when the invention, within the starting had in its suburbs many fifteen.000 natural neighbors of the country. León Viejo is found on the banks of the Lago First State Managua (Lake Managua or Lake Xolotlán), before of the volcano Momotombo. The world suffered frequent volcanic activity, culminating within the earthquakes of 1594 and 1610. Town wasn’t destroyed by the 1610 quake, but owing to the harm it caused and owing to the seismal characteristics of the place, its settlers control a preferred consultation and determined to maneuver town to the current location of León, Nicaragua. The recent town was bit by bit buried by the continual expulsions of ash and volcanic stone and by lake sediments.
The ruins of León Viejo were discovered in 1967 and excavations begun the subsequent year. The excavations disclosed that town had the same layout to alternative cities in Latin America at that point, arranged move into an explicit sq. With a plaza settled in its center. The middle of León Viejo occupies associate degree approximate space of 800 meters times five hundred meters. Round the Plaza civil authority and on the border of the streets, sixteen ruins are partly restored . Town had 3 monasteries: “La Merced”, “San Pedro” and “San Francisco”, that remained active till 1560. The ruins of los angeles Merced and San Pedro are known.
The ruins are broken by natural disasters over the years. In May, 1982 the tropical storm Alleta wasted the walls of town. In October, 1988 the cyclone Joan caused new damages to the ruins, and in Gregorian calendar month, 1998 the cyclone Mitch caused damages moving associate degree calculable four-hundredth of the location, moving many homes, La Merced convent and La Fortaleza. León Viejo is that the solely colonial town from the sixteenth century settled in America that ne’er suffered city-planning alterations throughout its history. This truth was the most argument within the request to the UN agency once it absolutely was declared a World Heritage website in 2000.
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