| Joaquín Zavala Solís | |
| Office: | President of Nicaragua |
| Term Start: | 16 July 1893 |
| Term End: | 25 July 1893 |
| Successor: | José Santos Zelaya |
| Term Start1: | 1 March 1879 |
| Term End1: | 1 March 1883 |
| Predecessor1: | Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro |
| Successor1: | Adán Cárdenas |
| Birth Name: | Joaquín Zavala Solís |
| Birth Date: | 30 October 1835 |
| Birth Place: | Managua, Federal Republic of Central America |
| Death Place: | Managua, Nicaragua |
| Party: | Conservative |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Nationality: | Nicaraguan |
Joaquín Zavala Solís (30 November 1835 in Managua – 30 December 1906 in Managua) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 March 1879 to 1 March 1883 and from 16 July to 15 September 1893. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua.[1]
He is now remembered especially for having thwarted the request of the young Rubén Darío, later to become one of the most well-known Spanish-language poets, for a government scholarship to study in Europe. In 1882 Darío, then 15 years old, read some of his poetry to a group including the President - whereupon Zavala reportedly reproved him: "My son, if you so write against the religion of your fathers and their homeland now, what will become of you if you go to Europe and learn worse things?"[2]