Los Congos was just recently featured in two recent articles. One article in el Nuevo Diario featuring Los Congos and outlining the community and a second in La Prensa describing foreign investment and its benefit to Nicaragua. Please find a translated version below. We have used Google's translation tool to preserve the original intention and to insure that they are posted bias free. While Google translation is true to the original, the translation is often poor.

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El Nuevo Diario ? May 7, 2007

They project millionaire tourist center in the lagoon of Support

Ervin Filemón Sanchez | fsanchez@elnuevodiario.com.ni

http://www.elnuevodiario.

com.ni/2007/05/07/economia/48120

In next the two years the first part of a millionaire tourist project impelled by the enterprise group Laguna S.A. will be finished, which tries to build a hotel five stars, spa and a rustic zone of recreation to borders of the Lagoon of Support, in the sector of the Diriá, the department of Granada.

The millionaire project would involve an investment of about 25 million dollars in the site. According to the designers, not only it will help to increase the amount of quarters available for the tourists in the country, but that also it will attract more income, it will give a good amount of uses and will have a good multiplying effect in the zone.

The project is being planned with all the environmental engineering specifications and geologic of California, the United States, it maintains to the architect Jeffrey Finch, President of the group Laguna S.A., that it has like vice-president to Ausberto Narváez Argüello.

The development involves a total investment of 40 million dollars, because in addition to the tourist set in the creek of the lagoon of Support, that will cost 25 million dollars, prevén to construct to a center of purchases on the Highway to Masaya and a habitacional complex, those that as a whole will include an investment of 15 million dollars.

The area that will include/understand the project is of little more than 300 apples, and in a part of her, that will denominate the Congos Resorts, it will be constructed to a hotel five stars who will be compound of 50 villas and about 75 quarters, indicates Finch.

According to the designers, spa could be catalogued as center of rest and health to the height of the best ones of the world, like those of Monte Car it, Monaco. This spa also would have a site of practice of yoga.

Natural reserve

Finch affirmed that not only they are working with all the specifications of the State of California, but also that are taking 25 thousand little trees to reforest the sites that are despalados and to form a forest with own species of the site, that will work like a conservation area.

The area that will be dedicated to natural reserve includes the 60 percent of all the complex, 180 apples, in agreement with the information of the designers, where it affirms that he will be open to the community, and even maintains that this project does not try to close no beach space in the Lagoon of Support.

According to Mr. Finch, the project will generate in the construction stage about 500 uses, and later they will be with 250 seats of work. In the area of the Congos Resort also they will be left lots for construction of houses for people whom they love to spend its vacations or retirement.

This tourist project will also count on service of cánopi and in its totality it will be constructed in about ten years, whereas the hotel area culminates its construction in about two years, after receiving the environmental permission of the Ministry of the Atmosphere and Natural Resources.