Masaya and the route of the Folklore.

Actually, Masaya s department possesses a surface of 610.78 Km, has population of 289,988 (acording to census 2005) and divided in 9 municipalities.

Masaya is recognized by its abundant warmth of its people, history, culture, religious festivities, craft and folklore manifestations.One of the principal tourist attractions is so called route of the white village, it possesses of a great variety of crafts and picturesque landscapes.

Every sample of imagination carved in wood elaborated in mud or represented in dance pieces it demonstrates to the rest of Nicaragua and to the world the inexhaustible offer that possesses this department.

Distributed of harmonic form in its municipalities giving to the public the sensation of entering an environment loaded with happiness, tradition culture and folklore, where the options of satisfaction exceed the expectations of the visitor.

This offer brought together with the natural attractions and the own gatronomy of the zone guarantees a wide range of recreative elements that a need to be promoted and projected as potential tourist factors of development that they contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the actors involved in the strengthening of the tourist image of the municipalities.

Masaya s department is characterized by its diversity, originality, and richnes not only historical but cultural and human.

Its 9 municipalities are protagonists of a laborious task of daily creativity, which takes form of way lived in each of the folklore and handcrafted manifestations that appear of the tireless hands of our craftsmen and of the ingenuity of the villages.