Immigration to Nicaragua

These immigrants have combine with the established European settlers and indigenous Mestizos people to give Nicaragua a wide cultural mix.

In the late of the seventeenth century these abandoned the pirataje and engaged in the commerce, also occurred some mixtures between these European pirates with the Indians of the Mosquito Coast.

[2] After the independence traders from England, France, Germany and Italy arrived to reside in Nicaragua and do business, but most moved to Matagalpa, mainly Germans since the construction of coffee fincas, while the Britons regained the Mosquito Coast after withdrawal in the early nineteenth century.

[3] The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Nicaragua on the coast of the Central American country in the second half of the nineteenth century.

As the first members of the Chinese colonies in the Americas, these immigrants came to Nicaragua to escape the chaotic situation in China for that time.