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La Chureca: Calling a Landfill Home

By Timothy Bouldry

View an exclusive slideshow of Managua's La Chureca landfill and the families who live and work there.

La Chureca—located in Managua, Nicaragua—is Central America's largest landfill, where 16 tons of trash produced by over 2 million people is dropped off every day. The area, once 4.5 square miles of farmland on Lake Managua, is now home to hundreds of families and wild animals.

View the slideshow of La Chureca below.


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