Corinto is a town, with a population of 18,602 (2022 estimate),[4] on the northwest Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the province of Chinandega.

[5] When Nicaragua refused to pay Britain an indemnity for the annexation of the Mosquito Reserve, the British responded by occupying the Nicaraguan Pacific port of Corinto on 27 April 1895.

In 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed the African-American writer James Weldon Johnson U.S. Consul to Corinto.

On January 25, 1922, the USS Galveston landed a detachment of U.S. Marines at Corinto, to reinforce the Managua legation guard during a period of political tension.

[9][10][11][12][13] Corinto was a railroad terminus and is Nicaragua's largest and only Pacific port for the import and export of goods.