El Almendro, Río San Juan, Nicaragua Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of El Almendro ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History

 * The territory was a mountain pass in the first centuries of Spanish domination, they penetrated through the current of the Tepenaguasapa River to reach the Great Lake of Nicaragua.
 * In 1709, Zambo and Miskito expeditionaries captured the colonial ship "Champagne of the King" in the waters of the lake.
 * The town was founded in 1892, by the huleros (rubber seekers) and raicilleros.
 * It was elevated to the category of municipality on July 4, 1974, as a dismemberment of the lands of the municipality of Morrito.
 * For the year 1990, the municipality was selected as an enclave area for the disarmament of the Nicaraguan Resistance fighters, as a result of the end of the war in the 1980s. In the town of El Almendro, demobilized combatants and their families were located benefiting them with plots of an average size of 50 blocks. This was framed within the reinsertion and reconciliation process.
 * The municipality of El Almendro has a population of approximately 15,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for El Almendro municipality.

Church Records

 * There are no records online for El Almendro municipality.

Census Records

 * There are no records online for El Almendro municipality.

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the El Almendro municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1922-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Cementerio Municipal de El Almendro
 * Direction: NN-114, El Almendro