Nicaragua

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• 🌊Lake Nicaragua is the largest freshwater lake in Central America and the only freshwater lake on Earth inhabited by oceanic bull sharks, which adapted to fresh water and traveled up the San Juan River from the Caribbean Sea.
• 🏆Nicaragua is the birthplace of volcano boarding, an extreme sport where thrill-seekers slide down the active Cerro Negro volcano on wooden sleds at speeds over 80 km/h (50 mph).
• 🏝Ometepe Island in the middle of Lake Nicaragua is formed by two volcanoes rising straight from the water — the active Concepción and the dormant Maderas — making it a legendary eco-tourism and hiking hotspot.
• 📚Nicaragua is known as the 'Land of Poets'; its national hero Rubén Darío revolutionized Spanish-language literature, and locals joke that everyone here is a poet until proven otherwise.
• 🏳️Nicaragua's flag has two blue stripes (Pacific and Caribbean) and a white peace stripe in the center. Its coat of arms includes a rainbow — and unlike El Salvador and Honduras, Nicaragua's rainbow features purple, making it one of only two countries in the world to use purple on its national flag (the other is Dominica).