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San Carlos is a city in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua. San Carlos is a local transportation hub. That doesn't mean there is a lot going on but if you travel the region you can't miss San Carlos. In November 2009 the municipality inaugurated the brand new Malecon which gave a needed face-lift to the city. With the construction of the new carretera to Managua (reducing the travel time from just over 12 hours by bus to 6 hours) and the completion of a bridge across the Rio San Juan just out of town there is bound to be a lot of development in the next few years.
Get in
By boat
You can cross into Nicaragua from Costa Rica getting a boat in Los Chiles. (Leaves at 1 pm in Los Chiles and costs 5000 Colones / 180 Cordobas or US$9. Payable in either currency) You will arrive in San Carlos at around 3 pm (not so many options left to leave San Carlos on the very same day.)
You can get into town by boat from Isla Ometepe or from Granada. The Ferry leaves Granada at 5 pm on Monday and Thursday. It stops by in Altagracia at the Isla Ometepe where it leaves at around 9 pm. As of February 2014, the boat from Altagracia was C$161.
There are boats coming in from El Castillo and San Juan Del Norte.
There are boat connections to Solentiname Islands and to the villages on the southern shore of the Lago de Nicaragua.
By bus
There are buses to and from Managua. The trip takes 6 hours and costs 150 Cordobas.
All buses to Managua stop in Juigalpa but some also do the San Carlos Juigalpa trip on its own.
Please note that the buses that say "Los Chiles" on the windshield do not go to Los Chiles Costa Rica but rather to a small Nicaraguan village of the same name
By plane
There are twice weekly flights from Managua (~US$120 round trip).
The new airports in Sun Juan del Norte and on Ometepe have scheduled flights to and from San Carlos as well.
Get around
It's a small city - everything is in walking distance. A taxi is NIO10 all around town (double rates at night). A local bus exists but is not useful for tourists. If you arrive at the airport, taxis should be waiting for you to take you and your luggage into town.
