Pantasma
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Pantasma is a region in the north of Nicaragua. In the Miskito language the word Pantasma means small humans or flat head. The Spanish word Fantasma (Galician: Pantasma) origins from the Greek Phantasma and means ghost.
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Landforms of Nicaragua.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- region
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Santa María de Pantasma
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
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Pantasma is a region in the north of Nicaragua. In the Miskito language the word Pantasma means small humans or flat head. The Spanish word Fantasma (Galician: Pantasma) origins from the Greek Phantasma and means ghost.
The Valle de Pantasma, also called the "Crater of Pantasma", is a circular valley over 12 km in diameter situated in Nicaragua. It is passed by the Rio Pantasma, a tributary of the Rio Coco (also called Rio Segovia). In its center lies the village of Las Praderas, the principal place of the community of Santa Maria de Pantasma with about 40,000 inhabitants in the province of Jinotega. In the poor, but fertile and agricultural intensely used valley corn, grain, fruit, and coffee are cultivated and cattle is bred.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pantasma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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