Information: - Tipitapa is a municipality in the Managua department of western Nicaragua. The area is located between Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua. - An isthmus (or ; plural: isthmuses; from ) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water that otherwise separates them. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmus. - Lake Managua (also known as Lake Xolotlan) (located at ) is a lake in Nicaragua. The Spanish name is Lago de Managua or Lago Xolotlan. At 1,042km, it is approximately long and wide. Similarly to the name of Lake Nicaragua, its name was coined by the Spanish conquerors from "Mangue" (their name for the Mankeme tribes) and "agua" ("water"). The city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, lies on its southwestern shore. - Managua ( Spanish pronunciation : ( manawa ) ) is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as of the department of the same name . It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population and geographic size . Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Xolotlan or Lake Managua , the city was declared the national capital in 1852 . Prior to its inception as the capital city , the title had alternated between the cities of Leon and Granada . The 1972 Nicaragua earthquake and the ensuing years of war in the 1980s severely disrupted and stunted Managua 's growth . It was not until the mid- 1990s that Managua began to see a resurgence in investment and infrastructural development . The city has a metropolitan population of about 2,408,000 , which includes the neighboring cities of Ciudad Sandino and Tipitapa . Managua is composed predominantly of mestizos and whites who are mainly of Spanish descent , with a minority being of French , Jewish Nicaraguan , German Nicaraguan , Italian , Russian and Turkish descent . Managua is the second most populous city in Central America , after Guatemala City . - Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus. Nicaragua's capital, Managua, is the country's largest city and the third-largest city in Central America. The multi-ethnic population of six million includes indigenous peoples, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. The main language is Spanish. Native tribes on the eastern coast speak their own languages. - Ciudad Sandino is a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua. - A lake is an area of variable size filled with water, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land, apart from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are also larger and deeper than ponds, though there are no official or scientific definitions. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams, which are usually flowing. Most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams. - A municipality is usually a single urban administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws, to which it is subordinate. It is to be distinguished from the county, which may encompass rural territory and/or numerous small communities such as towns, villages and hamlets. The term "municipality" may also mean the governing or ruling body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French "municipalite" and Latin "municipalis". - Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada ("Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce," or "Lago de Granada") is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic origin and with an area of , it is the largest lake in Central America, the 19th largest lake in the world (by area) and the 9th largest in the Americas, slightly smaller than Lake Titicaca. With an elevation of above sea level, the lake reaches a depth of . It is intermittently joined by the Tipitapa River to Lake Managua. - Central America is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast. Central America is bordered by Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Central America consists of seven countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. The combined population of Central America is between 41,739,000 (2009 estimate) and 42,688,190 (2012 estimate). After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'managua' exhibits the relationship of 'located in the administrative territorial entity'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - basin - belize - central - colombia - costa rica - el salvador - granada - guatemala - honduras - managua - managua department - mexico - nicaragua - north - of - salvador - west
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managua department