The territory of the municipality of San Isidro has its indigenous origins, it is part of the old chiefdom of Sébaco, therefore, its culture and traditions are part of the cultural syncretism based on the indigenous and colonial heritage. Much of the territory of San Isidro is part of the indigenous community of Sébaco.
Artistic expressions and manifestations
Through Municipal House of Culture The rescue in the development of participatory socio-cultural processes of the population is strengthened by carrying out actions aimed at preserving the cultural heritage, promoting the creation and enjoyment of cultural artistic manifestations, in order to preserve the municipal and national identity.
The House of Culture is administered by the municipal government, it is endowed with national and local typical costumes. There is also a music school with instruments such as: guitars, pianos, drums, among others. There are qualified personnel to transmit knowledge and maintain the cultural identity of the municipality.
El Corrido a San Isidro, is the musical piece par excellence that highlights the most representative elements of the municipality such as the May festivities in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the cashew wine, the passion for the king sport "baseball" and the rice fields .
Handicrafts: expression of ancestral popular culture
In the Crafts Workshop, located in the community of San Andrés, they make utilitarian clay crafts such as pots, comales, vases and plates, among other objects, ancestral tradition, inherited from a family generation.
In the Monimbó and Villa Libertad neighborhoods they make ropes and rope and nylon rope; while in Villa Julián Roque Cuadra there are handmade clay brick workshops. In the urban area there are carpentry workshops.
Characters
San Isidro was the birthplace of the outstanding player Vicente Lopez (RIP), who was a receiver for the national baseball team, which in December 1972 defeated Cuba's 2 runs to 0 during the World Championship held that year in Managua, before 20,000 fans who witnessed that historic match.
On April 4, 2005, he was admitted to the Nicaraguan Sports Hall of Fame at the Denis Martínez National Stadium in Managua. Throughout his sporting career, López participated in 792 games, had 872 hits, drove in 508 runs and scored 510. In addition, he hit 116 home runs, 143 doubles and nine triples, for a batting average of 323 points.
Traditional trades
Learn about artisanal gold mining, on a tour where you will learn the process of gold extraction in a traditional way, here you will be able to observe this work that has been practiced for many years in the municipality. The mines that you can visit are located in the communities Las Mangas, Aguas Frías, Winston Castillo, Santa Isabel, Tatascame and La Unión. There are multiple options to make your tour more interesting.
You can also visit the municipality's wood workshops, where different furniture for domestic and decorative use is made. Here you will learn what the manufacturing process is like.
Other trades are artisanal river fishing and brick-making artisan workshops.
Other sites of historical and cultural interest
Museum of History San Isidro El Guayabal: It is administered by the local government, it is located in the center of the municipal park, in front of the municipal mayor's office. It is a place of great cultural richness that promotes and rescues the cultural identity of the citizens of San Isidre, where you will find a considerable number of pre-Columbian archaeological pieces of different origins and provenance, which has led historians to suppose that the trade of objects passed here of luxury such as gold, feathers and precious stones.
Thus there are also pots and indigenous bones where they represent indigenous remains of our ancestors. These bones have been found in different places in the Estelí neighborhood.
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