Sébaco, Matagalpa, Nicaragua Genealogy

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

History

 * In pre-Columbian times it was an important ceremonial center.
 * It was quickly constituted the center of all the military operations of conquest and evangelization of the north of Nicaragua and the south of present-day Honduras.
 * It is based on the old town, the city of "Santiago de Cihuatl Coatl", head of the village of Chontales until the eighteenth century.
 * By 1535 the district of Sébaco included Sébaco itself, Metapa and territories of the current departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega.
 * On February 10, 1724, it grants the Sebaqueños indigenous people the real title that accredited them as sole owners, in use and enjoyment of 23,554 hectares and 98 acres of fertile lands that comprise the entire Sébaco Valley and beyond, with the intention of conquering the natives.
 * A great flood caused the town to move in 1833 to a rocky hill to the southeast of its original settlement, where the Nuevo Sébaco de la Asunción, known today as Sébaco viejo or Sébaco Arriba, was founded.
 * The municipality of Sébaco was founded on August 18, 1833.
 * With the construction of the Pan-American Highway in the 1950s (20th century), the population fell and the Sébaco began to be built below, originally the San Jerónimo or La Hielera neighborhood, from where it spread over the years for a large part from the valley.
 * The municipality of Sébaco has a population of approximately 37,700 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for Sébaco municipality.

Church Records

 * There are no records online for Sébaco municipality.

Census Records

 * There are no records online for Sébaco municipality.

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the Sébaco municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1922-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Cementerio Municipal Viejo de Sébaco
 * Cementerio Nuevo Municipal de Sébaco
 * Cementerio San José
 * Direction: VV3R+3MC, Sébaco