The Bosawas Biosphere Reserve in the northern part of Nicaragua is a hilly tropical forest designated in 1997 as a UNESCObiosphere reserve. At over 2 million hectares in size, the reserve comprises about 7% of the nation's total land area, is largely unexplored, and is extremely rich in biodiversity. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A hectare (symbol ha) is a metric unit of surface area, equal to 100 ares (the name is a contraction of the SI prefix hecto + are). ... Rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on earth Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variation of taxonomic life forms within a given ecosystem, biome or for the entire Earth. ...
The name is derived from three natural features: the Bocay River, Mount Saslaya and the Waspuk River. It includes all of Nicaragua's Saslaya National Park. The Isabella Mountains cross the reserve area, and the Coco River (Rio Coco) forms the northern border, the political border with Honduras. The Coco River, formerly known as the Segovia River, is a river in southern Honduras and northern Nicaragua. ...
About 130,000 inhabitants practice subsistance farming within the boundaries, about 35,000 of them indigenous Miskito and Mayangna groups. For the insect, see mosquito The Miskito are a Native American people in Central America. ...
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