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Masaya

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Masaya (mäsä`yä), city (1995 est. pop. 80,051), W Nicaragua, capital of Masaya dept. Connected by rail and highway to Granada and Managua, Masaya is a commercial and light manufacturing center in a rich agricultural district. It is noted for its handicrafts.
Masaya 

a city in western Nicaragua; administrative center of the Masaya department. Population, 49,700 (1970). Masaya is the center of an agricultural region producing mainly tobacco. There is manufacturing based on agricultural raw materials. Cottage industries include leather dressing, weaving cotton fabrics, and manufacture of straw hats.



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The Mariposa Spanish School and Eco Hotel (Nicaragua) organizes horse riding trips to the Masaya Volcano.
Led by Kimiko Hashimoto of Kyoto Pharmaceutical University and Masaya Nakata of Keio University in Yokohama, Japan, the research team first isolated the toxin, a difficult task because the compound tends to bind to other things.
Abderrahime Bouramdane of Morocco also gave up shortly afterwards, leaving the competition to Tergat, Rios, Yared Asmerom of Eritrea, Abiyot Guta of Ethiopia and Japan's Masaya Shimizu.
 
 
 
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