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Nicaragua (officially the Republic of Nicaragua ) is a country in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Costa Rica and Honduras. Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America in square kilometers.
Nicaragua covers a total area of 130,370 square kilometers (119,990 square kilometers of which is land area) and contains a variety of climates and terrains. The country's physical geography divides it into three major zones: the Pacific lowlands, the wetter, cooler central highlands, and the Caribbean lowlands. In November 2020, two major hurricanes: Eta and Iota, made landfall on the nation in nearly same locations in consecutive weeks, causing hundreds of deaths throughout the Caribbean region and causing millions of dollars in damage.
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Nicaragua is subject to destructive earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and occasionally severe hurricanes. In this framework, tree cover refers to vegetation taller than 5 m (including natural forests and tree plantations), and tree cover loss is defined as the complete removal of tree cover canopy for a given year, regardless of cause.
For Nicaragua, country statistics report cumulative tree cover loss of from 2001 to 2024 (about 25.7% of its 2000 tree cover area).
The FREL was submitted in 2019 and technically assessed in 2020. It covers three REDD+ activities at national scale - reducing emissions from deforestation, reducing emissions from forest degradation, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks - and uses a 2006-2015 historical reference period. Following the technical assessment and a modified submission, the assessed FREL was 14,436,009 t CO2 eq per year, revised from 16,510,883 t CO2 eq per year in the original submission. The technical assessment states that the benchmark represents the annual average of CO2 emissions and removals from the three included activities. The technical assessment reports that the FREL included above-ground biomass and below-ground biomass and reported CO2 only, while excluding deadwood, litter and soil organic carbon. Activity data were derived from visual interpretation of satellite imagery for 2005 and 2015 using a systematic sampling design linked to the national forest inventory grid.