Manacle Rocks
a dangerous reef on the S. coast of Cornwall, England, not far from Lizard Head and near the town of Falmouth. They are barely visible , except at low water, and there is no warning of their presence to the mariner except a bell buoy. Many wrecks have occurred here.
MANAGUA MANAGUA (mä-nä'gwä), the capital of Nicaragua, situated in a fertile district, on the S. shore of Lake Managua, 53 miles S. E. of Leon. Pop. about 35,000.
MANAHIKI (mä-ne-hēkē) ISLANDS, a group of low, wooded atolls, scattered over the Central Pacific, between the Marquesas and Union groups; area 12 square miles; pop. (1920) about 500.
Most of these islands, as Caroline, Malden, Starbuck, Penrhyn, Humphrey, Vostok, Flint, and two or three others, belong to New Zealand. MANAOS (mä-nä'ös), capital of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, on the Rio Negro, 12 miles above its confluence with the Amazon. A whitewashed cathedral rises in the center of the town, which also has a custom house and a military hospital. It is a well-built city, with many modern municipal improvements.
There are a school of chemistry, a museum, and a public library. The city is a steamboat station, and has a considerable trade in various forest products, but principally in india-rubber. Pop. about 50,000.
MANASAROWAR (mä "nä-sä"rowär'), a lake of Tibet, N. of the main chain of the Himalaya Mountains; it is almost circular in form, about 15 miles in diameter, and drained by the Sutlej.