Xiotenko

Xiotenko, later called Jinotega, lies in a valley of the northern Nicaraguan highlands. An indigenous town stood here before Spanish families from the Segovia region began settling nearby valleys in the late seventeenth century. Some later moved beside Jinotega, establishing a neighbourhood known as La Tejera where tiles and bricks were made. By 1710 the inhabitants had begun building a second church of lime and brick.