El Realejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua Genealogy

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

History

 * Its founder was Don Pedro de Alvarado in 1534.
 * El Realejo became "the most important port in Nicaragua" in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, when it was the target of pirate attacks –including the attack that caused the destruction of the San Francisco Convent– that forced the Spanish, to abandon it.
 * Since 1789 it was the seat of the Corregimiento of El Realejo, a neighbor of the Sutiaba corregimiento, within the territorial and administrative division of the Captaincy General of Guatemala.
 * The municipality of El Realejo has a population of approximately 10,000 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for El Realejo municipality.

Church Records

 * There are no records online for El Realejo municipality.

Census Records

 * There are no records online for El Realejo municipality.

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the El Realejo municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1922-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Cementerio Municipal El Realejo
 * Direction: NN-276, El Realejo