River between high rock walls in Somoto Canyon.

Craft
towns

Two towns in Estelí department. According to INTUR, Condega is the «Land of Potters», with the pottery made by the women of Ducuale Grande and the Julio César Salgado Archaeological Museum, founded in 1986, with more than 300 pre-Columbian pieces, and it also highlights Laguna de Venecia and the Cerro El Frayle lookout. San Juan de Limay is known for its sculptures in marmolina soapstone and river stone, above all «Las Gordas de Limay»: INTUR highlights its soapstone and clay workshops, the Corredor Turístico de las Gordas with twenty sculptures, the Gorda Colosal park and the Colocondo waterfall, and according to INTUR the San Juan Bautista patron saint festival is held in June, with the main day on the 24th. Both have unconfirmed status: they are towns, and the hours of the museum and the workshops and access to the Colocondo waterfall are unconfirmed

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