Wiwilí de Nueva Segovia is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

. Nicaraguan sources say it was founded in the 1920s. Wiwili de Nueva Segovia is on the west bank of the Rio Coco

Coco River

The Río Coco, formerly known as the Río Segovia, Cape River, or Yara River, is a river in southern Honduras and northern Nicaragua. To the Miskito Indians that live along the river it is known as the Wanki or Wanks River...

; Wiwili de Jinotega is on the eastern bank. Wiwili borders the Bosawas National Natural Resource Reserve, the largest protected area in Central America.

External links

http://www.iisd.org/pdf/2002/envsec_conserving_3.pdf, "Resources, Abundance and Competition in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve,
Nicaragua,"

http://www-ni.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2004/junio/27/mosaico/mosaico-20040627-01.html, "Wiwilí: multilingüe y multiétnico," La Prensa