Masaya, Masaya
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Masaya is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. The capital city of the department, Masaya, is loacted within the municipality.
Masaya (city), town located in the Southwest of Nicaragua, capital of the department of Masaya, near to the capital of the country: Managua. The city is in the oriental slope of the inactive volcano, call also Masaya, of 913 m of height and to the west of the lagoon of the same name. The town is communication nucleus and rail knot, for what is industrial and commercial center of the surrounding agricultural area.
Their industry is based on the prosecution of fibers, the production of pure, indigenous crafts, shoes, skin products, soap and starch. Masaya, call The city of the flowers, is famous for the annual party of autumn dedicated to San Jerónimo.
Masaya is the cradle of the Nicaraguan folklor. Here poets and such musicians were born, as Alejandro Vega Matus among others.
On Sundays of October and November they leave to the streets the marimba dances, the devils and the traditional Torovenado, without forgetting the dance of the agüisotes that is kind of a Nicaraguan halloween that dates from the time of the colony.
