Cuauhcapolca

Cuauhcapolca lies on Ometepe, the island of two volcanoes in Lake Nicaragua. Concepción and Maderas rise above the fresh water, joined by a narrow strip of land. Indigenous communities inhabited the island before Spanish expeditions reached the lake in the sixteenth century, leaving pottery and designs carved into volcanic stone. Its Nahuatl name Ometepetl recalls the twin mountains that give the island its unmistakable shape.

The later city of Rivas lies here.