Greytown

Greytown (San Juan del Norte), the only Nicaraguan port on the Caribbean Sea, is on the northern delta of the San Juan River, which until 1889 was nearly choked with sand. In that year labourers were despatched from the United States to commence work on the interoceanic canal, of which Greytown is the proposed terminus on the Atlantic side, and to construct a breakwater here. Greytown was neutralised under the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and has been a free port of Nicaragua since 1860. Pop. 1500.