El Viejo, Chinandega, Nicaragua Genealogy

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

History

 * The territory that today occupies the city of El Viejo, at the end of pre-Columbian times, was a town called Teçoatega or Tezoatega.
 * In 1539, the indigenous lands were entrusted.
 * In 1812, the province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica was created. The territory of El Viejo was included within the jurisdiction of the sub-delegation of León.
 * In 1838, when the State of Nicaragua separated from the federated states of the Federal Republic of Central America, the territory of El Viejo would remain under the jurisdiction of the western department.
 * On September 2, 1839, the title of town was granted to the town of El Viejo.
 * In 1858, the urban and rural municipal term of the municipality of El Viejo was formed, within the recently created department of Chinandega.
 * On March 4, 1868, the title of city was granted to the Villa de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de El Viejo.
 * On November 5, 1946, it was approved "to raise the hamlet of Puerto Morazán to the category of town, in the department of Chinandega, independent of the municipality of El Viejo", to which it previously belonged, and the municipality of Puerto Morazán was created.
 * The Municipality of El Viejo has a population of approximately 90,500 people.

Civil Registration

 * There are no records online for El Viejo municipality.

Church Records

 * There are no records online for El Viejo municipality.

Census Records

 * Padrones de Guatemala : Santa Ana Chinandega, Chichigalpa, y El Viejo: 1768 - Click on the link to see the records’ availability.

Cemeteries
Indexes of burials in the cemeteries of the El Viejo municipality may be found at findagrave.com
 * 1922-2007 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * Cementerio Municipal de El Viejo #1
 * Dirección: 6ª Calle NO, El Viejo
 * Cementerio Municipal de El Viejo #2
 * Dirección: 6ª Calle SO, El Viejo