Nicaragua

12 October 2010

Hi there Nicaragua group, I am crashing your page because you have not answered the following questions properly yet - when you answer please cite your sources, using the methods that you always do.

1. Size of an average family in your allocated country. 2. Food and water needs for an average family in your country. ( Finish by Dong Hoon Kang) 3. Political/military/geographical realities of the country. ( Finish by Jeremy Soulage) 4. Designs of water and grain storage facilities.

1. Size of an average family in your allocated country.
There are 2.7 children born per woman


 * ~ Year ||~ Total fertility rate ||~ Rank ||~ Percent Change ||~ Date of Information ||
 * > 2003 ||> 3 ||> 93 ||>  ||> 2003 est. ||
 * > 2004 ||> 2.81 ||> 93 ||> -6.33 % ||> 2004 est. ||
 * > 2005 ||> 2.81 ||> 93 ||> 0.00 % ||> 2005 est. ||
 * > 2006 ||> 2.75 ||> 93 ||> -2.14 % ||> 2006 est. ||
 * > 2007 ||> 2.69 ||> 93 ||> -2.18 % ||> 2007 est. ||
 * > 2008 ||> 2.63 ||> 91 ||> -2.23 % ||> 2008 est. ||
 * > 2009 ||> 2.57 ||> 90 ||> -2.28 % ||> 2009 est. ||
 * > 2010 ||> 2.57 ||> 91 ||> 0.00 % ||> 2009 est. ||

.this chart shows the average number of children that would be born per woman. the chart shows the population change in the country. The rate of two children per woman is considered the replacement rate for a population. Rates above two children indicate populations growing in size and whose median age is declining .(CIA world factbook) [] **__2. Food and water needs for an average family in Nicaragua __**

**The typical Nicaragua foods are egg, meat, bean, salad, tortilla and different fruits that depend on seasons. Other traditional foods are cow meat, banana which is a green color, Baho pig skin that mixed Yoo car (Car company starch) and salad****.**
 * Food and water needs in Nicaragua: **


 * They usually use corn, coconut and different seafood in their food. The average of the food that they use in one year is almost normal with other South America countries. It is higher than Honduras and less than Brazil.**


 * In Nicaragua, people enjoy to drink beverages. The feature of the Nicaragua’s weather, there are some fruits that grow in special area. They make the beverages to use fruits like melons, papayas, guavas, coconuts and other fruits. The fruit they most like is a pin olio. **


 * Nicaragua is the one of the lots of water country. Also there is hot weather than other country in the Asia or America. So they drink water a lot than other country. **

http://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/07-PL47-Nicaragua.pdf

__**3.Politcal/military/geographical realities of the country**__ Ms Brown Geographic situation:

Nicaragua is a country where there are a lot of volcano and earthquakes. Most of the population are living in the south of Nicaragua, around Lakes Managua. The eastern part of Nicaragua is flat with hot and humide conditions from the Caribean Sea and Pacific ocean. It's called Mosquito Coast. []

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The population:

There are 5,891,199 people in this country.

Economy:

Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America.

Government:

Nicaragua is a republic in Central America. There are 15 departments and 2 regions. ' (regiones autonomistas, singular - region autonoma); Atlantico Norte*, Atlantico Sur*, Boaco, Carazo, Chinandega, Chontales, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Leon, Madriz, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Nueva Segovia, Rio San Juan, Rivas'

They get an independence the 15 september 1821 from Spain. You have nearly the same Legal System that in France so with a Supreme court and a civil law system.

You have different Political parties. There are the National Workers Front, the Permanent Congress of Workers and the Nicaraguan Workers' Central.

Military:

The military partie in Nicaragua is call National Army of Nicaragua. You can joign the military force at 17 years old and it will be during 18-36 months. You have 1,605,398 men who are in the army and 1,374,652 women. There is no war on this moment.

Transportation:

There are 143 airport,19,137 km of roadways, 3 ports with 2,220 km of waterways. There is also pipelines on 54 km. It's only for oil.

For all of this informations, the link is [] 4. __**Designs of water and grain storage facilities.**__ There are many ways to store water they are dived in to classes the one that are unnatural and the one that are natural. The none-natural are water tank, cistern, pond, groundwater and many more. The natural are lakes, pond, sea and ocean. Not all of them are drinkable so people should be careful because most of them need to be clear before to actually drink the water like cistern that is usually you to get and store the rainwater or the ocean that should get read of the salt that isn’t good for our body.

The pomp: Pumps are often used to transport fluids from one place to another like water, gases… They can be put in different group like displacement pump… that are related to the way they are moving the fluids but for is water. Pump can be a way to transport from the point where the water is store to the point where the water is going to be used. This displace can be done by physical or mechanical action.[]    The cistern: Cisterns are waterproof container that used to holding liquids, usually water. Often are used to collect and store rainwater. The cisterns are most of the time underground but can still be on the ground like a ground barrel. Usually a pump or another way to transport the water is used to go from the cistern to the house for example.[] The pond: A Pond is like a lake but in smaller and he can be created by nature or man-made. There is many type of pond like fishpond, solar pond, water gardens… Usually it’s not people aren’t allowed to swim in them because there steam machine working under so that can be dangerous. Silo:  silos are use in agriculture to store grain as well as coal, cement, carbon black... but there is three different types of silo that are tower silos, bunker silos and bag silos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo