Selva Negra Mountain Resort (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Selva Negra Mountain Resort and Coffee Estate is a historical coffee farm founded in 1891 by German immigrants. Since 1976 it has also been a tourist resort. It is located in the department of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, just 7 miles (11 km) from the city of Matagalpa. According to Fodor's, Selva Negra is "arguably Nicaragua's most famous hotel," and proprietor Eddy K hl is "a personal friend of many of the country's power brokers." In the 1850s when gold was discovered in California, many American and European passengers made their way to California crossing the Isthmus of Central America through Nicaragua. On one of those trips, a German couple (Ludwig Elster and Katharina Braun) from the region named Black Forest (Selva Negra in Spanish) in Germany chose to stay in Nicaragua rather than continue to San Francisco. Instead of looking for gold they planted the first coffee beans in this region. Coffee came to be of very good quality, so soon many other Europeans and Americans showed up to do the same.