San Marcos, Carazo

San Marcos is a town and municipality in the Carazo Department of Nicaragua, about 45 kilometres south of the capital, Managua. The municipality had an estimated population of 33,303 in 2022. Its climate supports the growing of coffee and a wide variety of tropical flowers and fruits, and its economy is mainly agricultural, with coffee, citrus fruit, beans and maize as the chief exports. A Catholic majority celebrates the festival of its patron saint, San Marcos, and the parish church stands on the town square. The town hosts the Latin American campus of Keiser University, founded in 1993 in the building of the former Normal de Senoritas Salvadora de Somoza, and it is the birthplace of the scientist Clodomiro Picado Twight and of Anastasio Somoza Garcia. It is twinned with Biel/Bienne, Helmond and Jena.