San Jorge is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Rivas

Rivas (department)

Rivas is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,155 km² and has a population of 166,900 . The department's capital is the city of Rivas.-Overview:...

 department

Departments of Nicaragua

Nicaragua is a unitary republic, and for administrative purposes, it is divided into 15 departments and two self-governing regions based on the Spanish model:-Zelaya Department:...

 of Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

. Settled in 1888, San Jorge was originally home to a coal mine, but soon after mining began, settlers realized that it wasn't coal under the ground, but instead it was "fool's coal," otherwise known as granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

. While a valuable stone today, it was considered a waste in the late 1800s and most of the town's settlers moved to Panama to another mine that had just opened.

Today, San Jorge is a small, quaint town rarely visited by tourists due to the odd, yet not unpleasant odor caused by the town's biggest employer, Lorenzo y Hijos Planta de la Litera del Gatito (English translation, Lorenzo and Sons Kitty Litter Plant). Lorenzo y Hijos employes nearly 100 workers who produce kitty litter sold in Mexico under the name "Venganza de la Concha." In America, it is sold under the name "Here Kitty Kitty, Kitty Litter" sold exclusively at Pamida

Pamida

Pamida is a chain of department stores with more than 175 locations in 16 Midwestern and West Central U.S. states. Pamida stores are generally located in smaller communities that range from 3,000 to 8,000 in population...

stores