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2 Iglesia San Francisco
A4
3 Museo de Antropología
A3
Sleeping
4 Hospedaje Lidia
C3
5 Hotel Nicarao Inn
B3
Eating
6 Chop Suey
B4
7 Pizza Hot
B3
Restaurante Nicarao Inn
(see 5)
8 Rosti-Pizza
B4
Entertainment
9 Baseball Stadium
D3
Shopping
10 Palí
B3
Sights
Museo de Antropología
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(Mercado, 1c S, 1c E; admission US$1; 8:30am-noon & 2-5pm) If you have just two hours in
town, this is the place to go. Inside you'll find some moth-eaten taxidermy, a wall of
myths and legends and, best of all, a well-signed (in both English and Spanish) collection
of pre-Columbian artifacts, many of them recently discovered by the Santa Isabela Ar-
chaeological Project.
This Canadian-Nicaraguan team is excavating what it believes to be Cacique Nicarao's
ancient capital of Quauhcapolca, just north of San Jorge. The site was occupied between
AD 1000 and 1250, and the 400,000 artifacts they have uncovered there include tools,
blow guns, jewelry, funeral jars and cookware, as well as a fertility-goddess complex and
representations of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl.
MUSEUM
 
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