El Sauce

Once a bustling and important link on the national railway, today scenic El Sauce is a quiet mountain town. The town bursts to life during the third and fourth weeks in January, when thousands of pilgrims from all over Nicaragua, Guatemala and beyond make their way here to pay their respects to El Señor de Esquipulas (the Black Christ).


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