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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN) is located
in the town of León Santiago de los Caballeros, situated on the
Pacific coast, 90 km from Managua. The remote ancestor of UNAN is
the Conciliar Seminary of San Ramón "Nonnato" aka
Tridentine College, set up in 1680 on the order of the Council of
Trent. In 1812, the Seminary became a University, officially
inaugurated in 1816. It was therefore the second university set
up in Central America and the last one set up in the Americas
during the Spanish colonial rule. In 1947, the University became
a national university; Executive Decree #38, signed on
27 March 1958, granted autonomy to the University. The
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua was transformed into
UNAN-León and UNAN-Managua in 1983. UNAN-León website is
at <www.unanleon.edu.ni>.
The flag of UNAN-León is
horizontally divided red-white-blue with the coat of arms of the
university in the middle, as shown on the university
website showing a photography of the flag.
Ivan Sache, 14 February 2008
