Isla El Muerto

Nicaragua


This crescent-shaped islet off the north coast of Isla Zapatera has perhaps the most impressive expanse of petroglyphs carved into a 95m-by-25m expanse of bedrock at its center, where archaeologists have found numerous stone statues (now displayed in the Convento San Francisco in Granada). Several of the other islands also have petroglyphs and potential archaeological sites.


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