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Extract from the San Juan del Sur Travel Guides:
You would never suspect it today, but the sleepy fishing village-cum-beach town of
SAN JUAN DEL SUR
was once a lively place. In the mid-1800s this was a crucial
transit point
on Cornelius Vanderbilt's trans-isthmian steamboat line, on which people and goods were transported to goldrush-era California. Boats would sail up the Ro San Juan, disembark at Granada, and then continue by rail or carriage to San Juan del Sur, from where Pacific-going vessels would head north.
San Juan del Sur's second age of glory was as a popular
holiday spot
for hordes of
internacionalistasread the whole San Juan del Sur Travel Guides...
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