Nicaragua,Lake

Nicaragua,Lake
Nicaragua, Lake
The largest lake of Central America, in southwest Nicaragua. The freshwater lake contains fish, such as tuna and sharks, usually found only in salt water because it was part of the Caribbean Sea until land masses rose around it in prehistoric times.

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