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See also:ATITLAN, or See also:SANTIAGO DE ATITLAN , a See also:town in the See also:department of See also:Solola, See also:Guatemala, on the See also:southern See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Atitlan . Pop . (1905) about 9000, almost all See also:Indians . See also:Cotton-See also:spinning is the See also:chief See also:industry . Lake Atitlan is 24 M. See also:long and 10 m. broad, with 64 m. circumference . It occupies a See also:crater more than loon ft. deep and about 4700 ft. above See also:sea-level . The peaks of the Guatemala See also:Cordillera rise See also:round it, culminating near its southern end in the volcanoes of See also:San Pedro (7000 ft.) and Atitlan (11,719 ft.) . Although the lake is fed by many small See also:mountain torrents, it has no visible outlet, but probably communicates by an underground channel with one of the See also:rivers which drain the Cordillera . See also:Mineral springs abound in the neighbourhood . The town of Solola (q.v.) is near the See also:north shore of the lake . |
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