Masaya (from Nahuatl : Masayan ’Place of deer’ ) is a municipality and city in the Republic of Nicaragua , head of the department of Masaya . It is 28 kilometers from the capital of Managua and is part of the Metropolitan Region of Managua .
It is known as “ City of Flowers “ and “ Cradle of Nicaraguan Folklore “ for its great cultural vigor; however, given that Nicaragua is multicultural, Masaya has currently been called the Capital of Nicaraguan Folklore. 4 Within the territorial and administrative division of the Captaincy General of Guatemala there was the so-called “ Corregimiento de Monimbó“. Currently there is the indigenous community of Monimbó.
Toponymy
Etymologically “ Masaya “, formerly “ Masāyān “ derives from the language of the Nahuas (a variant of Nahuatl or Pipil ) and comes from the word masātl which means “deer“ and the particle -yān which denotes “site or place“. That is, “ deer place .“
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