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Extract from the Rivas Travel Guides:
Most travellers experience
RIVAS
as a dusty bus stop on the way to or from Costa Rica, San Juan del Sur, or Ometepe, unaware of the important role this scruffy town has played in Nicaraguan history. Founded in 1736, it became an important stop on the route of Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company, which ferried goods and passengers between the Caribbean and the Pacific via Lago de Nicaragua - Rivas's heyday came during the California Gold Rush, when its languid streets were full of prospectors travelling with the Transit Company on their way to the goldfields of the western US.
Rivas's ragged
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