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Santa Rosa

A more modern set of ruins than the nearby pre-Hispanic sites, this rough, dilapidated fishing village is organic, pungent, powerful and quite entrancing. The dry-docked ships make for interesting Instagram opps, and there are still some caballitos de tortora (traditional indigenous reed boats) used here. Miracles have been reported at the cozy church.

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