Diria

Diriá lies in the hill country above Nicaragua's Apoyo lagoon, a landscape of springs and wooded slopes on the Pacific side of the country. Chorotega people lived here before the Spanish conquest, farming the valleys and fishing the shores of the lagoon. Fray Francisco de Bobadilla visited the place in 1528 and described its people. A colonial count of 1548 recorded 1,346 inhabitants, a sign of a sizeable Indigenous community in the early years of colonial rule.

The later city of Jinotepe lies here.