Museo de Historia y Arqueología


In a large, concrete, faux-indigenous pyramid on the north side of town, Estelí's museum has a small but interesting collection of pottery and petroglyphs from local pre-Hispanic cultures, as well as fossils of extinct megafauna and items from the revolution.


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