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MASAYA , the See also:capital of the See also:department of Masaya, See also:Nicaragua, 13 M . W.N.W. of See also:Lake Nicaragua and the See also:city of See also:Granada, on the eastern See also:shore of Lake Masaya, and on the Granada-See also:Managua railway . Pop . (1905), about 20,000 . The city is built in the midst of a very fertile See also:lowland region, which yields large quantities of See also:tobacco . The See also:majority of the inhabitants are See also:Indians or See also:half-castes . Lake Masaya occupies an See also:extinct See also:crater; the isolated See also:volcano of Masaya (3000 ft.) on the opposite See also:side of the lake was active at the See also:time of the See also:conquest of Nicaragua in 1522, and the conquerors, thinking the See also:lava they saw was See also:gold, had themselves lowered into the crater at the See also:risk of their lives, The volcano was in eruption in 1670, 1782, 1857 and 1902 . |
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