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Nicaragua (LAKE OF an extensive sheet)

LAKE OF, an extensive sheet of water in the republic of the same name; area, about 3,000 square miles; depth, 10 to 260 feet; length, 110 miles N. W. to S. E.; greatest breadth, 40 miles; mean breadth, 30 miles; 110 feet above the Pacific, from which it is separated by a strip of land 12 miles wide. The San Juan de Nicaragua river flows from its S. E. extremity into the Caribbean Sea, and at its N. W. extremity it is connected with the smaller Lake of Managua or Leon by the Tipitapa river. Steamers ply on it, as it forms a link in the traffic route across the isthmus of Central America. There are hundreds of islands, the largest, Ometepe, having two active volcanoes. or,