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Feria Agropecuaria Rios de Leche in Santo Tomas
Feria Agropecuaria Rios de Leche is an agricultural and livestock fair held in Santo Tomas, a municipality in Nicaragua's Chontales department, a region long recognized as one of the country's principal cattle-ranching and dairy-producing areas. The fair name, translating to rivers of milk, reflects the area's identity as a center of dairy farming and cattle husbandry.
In Nicaragua's Chontales department, cattle ranching and dairy farming have long defined both the landscape and the local economy, and Santo Tomas, one of the department's municipalities, hosts its own expression of this identity through the Feria Agropecuaria Rios de Leche, an agricultural fair whose name translates literally to rivers of milk.