The initiative

Help this crater become a heritage site, not a rumour.

The science is published. The tourism proposal is written. The public address is craterpantasma.org. What remains is a coalition in Jinotega that can carry a geopark dossier.

What this site is for

  • A bilingual public narrative of the crater, the evidence, and the valley.
  • A geotourism offer aligned with Téllez: research, education, recreation, astrotourism.
  • A landing place for partners — municipality, INETER, universities, co-ops, INTUR.
  • The seed of an interpretation centre and a geopark working group.

The official address

craterpantasma.org is secured. pantasma.com stays Leo Kowald's discovery site — a scientific cousin, not a competitor. Optional redirects can wait.

Official

craterpantasma.org

Official. Secured. Heritage tone, bilingual, the flagship.

02

geoparquepantasma.org

Useful Spanish redirect later. States the UNESCO ambition in the URL.

03

craterdepantasma.org

Natural Spanish search. Optional alias.

04

visitpantasma.com

Tourism-forward alias if a visitor campaign needs it.

05

pantasmacrater.org

English scientific alias. Redirect, not the flagship.

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pantasmaheritage.org

Explicit mission. Optional.

The live site should answer at craterpantasma.org and www.craterpantasma.org. Extra names, if bought, should redirect here — not host a second story.

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Sources

  • Rochette, P. et al. (2019). Pantasma: Evidence for a Pleistocene circa 14 km diameter impact crater in Nicaragua. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 880–898.
  • Rochette, P. et al. (2021). Impact glasses from Belize represent tektites from the Pantasma structure.
  • Téllez, R. E. Pantasma Crater, Nicaragua — ecotourism proposal for the Pantasma Crater Project.
  • Kowald, L. pantasma.com — first public notice of the circular valley (2006) and later scientific updates.
  • IPGP (2019). Asteroid impact crater — 14 km in diameter discovered in Nicaragua.