Rio San Juan Region
The Rio San Juan Region is a region in Nicaragua which borders in the south to Plains of the North, Costa Rica.Photo: Stoschmidt, CC BY 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include San Carlos and Boaco.
San Carlos
San Carlos is the capital city of the municipality of San Carlos and of the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. The city proper has a population of roughly 17,000, while the city and surrounding communities contain a population of 52,055.
Boaco
Boaco is a mountain town in Nicaragua, some 88 km east of Managua. Sometimes called the "Two-Storey City", you'll be challenged to find flat terrains in the city.
Juigalpa
Juigalpa is the municipal seat of Juigalpa Municipality and the capital city of the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is located within the municipality of Juigalpa, approximately 140 km east of Managua on Carretera Rama, in the central region of Nicaragua.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Solentiname Islands and San Juan Del Norte.
Solentiname Islands
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The Solentiname Islands are in Nicaragua on the southeastern corner of Lake Nicaragua. It's a remote area popular with artists that lies near the San Juan river and was historically important as a point on the Ruta del Tránsito, the most practical way to cross the American continent until the Panama Canal made it obsolete.
San Juan Del Norte
San Juan del Norte, also known as Greytown and formerly as San Juan de Nicaragua or San Juan de la Cruz, is a small town and municipality in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua with an interesting history.San Miguelito
San Miguelito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. The first settlement in the area, to the east of the current location, was known as "Las Aldeas" and was founded between the years 1850 and 1855.El Castillo
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El Castillo is a town in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua. Since 1995, the fortress has been on a "tentative list" of important Nicaraguan cultural sites with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a preliminary to nomination for consideration as a World Heritage Site.
Rio San Juan Region
- Type: department of Nicaragua with 137,000 residents
- Description: department in southeastern Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Departamento de Rio San Juan”, “Río San Juan”, and “Río San Juan Department”
- Neighbors: Limón Province
- Location: Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Rio San Juan Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሪዮ ሳን ሁዋን ዲፓርትመንት”
- Arabic: “إدارة ريو سان خوان”
- Arabic: “ريو سان خوان”
- Asturian: “Departamentu de Río San Juan”
- Asturian: “Río San Juan (departamentu de Nicaragua)”
- Asturian: “Río San Juan”
- Azerbaijani: “Rio San Juan Departamenti”
- Basque: “Río San Juan”
- Basque: “Río San Juango departamendua”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Рыа-Сан-Хуан”
- Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Сан-Хуан”
- Belarusian: “Рыа-Сан-Хуан”
- Bengali: “রিও সান হুয়ান বিভাগ”
- Bengali: “রিও সান হুয়ান”
- Breton: “Departamant Río San Juan”
- Breton: “Río San Juan”
- Bulgarian: “Департамент Рио Сан Хуан”
- Bulgarian: “Рио Сан Хуан”
- Catalan: “Departament de Río San Juan”
- Catalan: “Río San Juan”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Cebuano: “Río San Juan”
- Chinese: “Río San Juan Koān”
- Chinese: “圣胡安河”
- Chinese: “圣胡安河省”
- Chinese: “聖胡安河”
- Chinese: “聖胡安河省”
- Czech: “Río San Juan (departement)”
- Czech: “Río San Juan”
- Danish: “Río San Juan Department”
- Danish: “Río San Juan”
- Danish: “Rivas-departementet”
- Dutch: “Río San Juan (departement)”
- Dutch: “Río San Juan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “إدارة ريو سان خوان”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريو سان خوان”
- Esperanto: “departemento Río San Juan”
- Esperanto: “Rio San Juan”
- Esperanto: “Río San Juan”
- Finnish: “Río San Juan”
- Finnish: “Río San Juanin departementti”
- Finnish: “Río San Juanin departmentti”
- French: “Département du Río San Juan”
- French: “Région du Río San Juan”
- French: “Río San Juan”
- Galician: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Galician: “Río San Juan”
- Georgian: “რიო სან ხუანის დეპარტამენტი”
- Georgian: “რიო სან-ხუანი”
- Georgian: “რიო-სან-ხუანის დეპარტამენტი”
- Georgian: “ხინოტეგას დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Río San Juan”
- German: “Region Rio San Juan”
- German: “Río San Juan”
- Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Ρίο Σαν Χουάν”
- Greek: “Ρίο Σαν Χουάν”
- Gujarati: “રિયો સાન જુઆન વિભાગ”
- Gujarati: “રિયો સાન હુઆન”
- Hausa: “Rio San Juan Department”
- Hebrew: “ריו סן חואן”
- Hindi: “रिओ सैन जुआन विभाग”
- Hindi: “रियो सैन हुआन”
- Hungarian: “Río San Juan megye”
- Hungarian: “Río San Juan”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Río San Juan”
- Indonesian: “Río San Juan”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Río San Juan”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Río San Juan”
- Italian: “Regione di Rio San Juan”
- Italian: “Río San Juan”
- Japanese: “リオ・サン・フアン”
- Japanese: “リオ・サン・フアン県”
- Javanese: “Departemen Rio San Juan”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಜುವಾನ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯೋ ಸಾನ್ ಹುಆನ್”
- Kazakh: “Рио Сан Хуан департаменті”
- Kirghiz: “Рио Сан Хуан Департаменти”
- Korean: “리오 산후안”
- Korean: “리오산후안주”
- Ladino: “Río San Juan (departamento)”
- Ladino: “Río San Juan”
- Latvian: “Río San Juan”
- Latvian: “Riosanhuanas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Rio San Chuano departamentas”
- Lithuanian: “Río San Juan”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Río San Juan”
- Malay: “Río San Juan”
- Marathi: “रिओ सान जुआन विभाग”
- Marathi: “रियो सान हुआन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Río San Juan Koān”
- Min Nan Chinese: “聖胡安河”
- Northern Frisian: “Río San Juan (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Río San Juan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Río San Juan”
- Norwegian: “Río San Juan (departement)”
- Norwegian: “Río San Juan”
- Oromo: “Rio San Juan Department”
- Ossetian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਓ ਸੈਨ ਜੁਆਨ ਵਿਭਾਗ”
- Persian: “بخش ریو سان خوان”
- Persian: “ریو سان خوان”
- Polish: “Departament Río San Juan”
- Polish: “Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Rio São João”
- Portuguese: “Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Rio São João”
- Pushto: “ریو سان خوان ډیپارتمنټ”
- Quechua: “Río San Juan suyu”
- Quechua: “Río San Juan”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Rio San Juan”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Río San Juan”
- Romanian: “Río San Juan”
- Russian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан (департамент)”
- Russian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан”
- Russian: “Сан-Хуан”
- Scots: “Río San Juan Depairtment”
- Scots: “Río San Juan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rio San Juan (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rio San Juan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Río San Juan”
- Sinhala: “රියෝ සැන් ජුවන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Sinhala: “රියෝ සැන් ජුවාන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නිකරගුවාව”
- Sinhala: “රියෝ සැන් හුවාන්”
- Somali: “Rio San Juan Department”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Spanish: “Río San Juan”
- Swahili: “Rio San Juan Department”
- Swedish: “Río San Juan (departement)”
- Swedish: “Río San Juan”
- Tajik: “Дипартаменти Рио Сан Хуан”
- Tamil: “ரியோ சான் ஜுவான் துறை”
- Tamil: “ரியோ சான் ஹுவான்”
- Tatar: “Rio San Juan Departamenti”
- Telugu: “రియో సాన్ జువాన్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “రియో సాన్ జువాన్ విభాగం”
- Telugu: “రియో సాన్ హువాన్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดริโอซานฮวน”
- Thai: “ริโอ ซาน ฮวน”
- Turkish: “Rio San Juan Departmanı”
- Turkish: “Río San Juan”
- Ukrainian: “Ріо-Сан-Хуан (департамент)”
- Ukrainian: “Ріо-Сан-Хуан”
- Urdu: “ریو سان خوان ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “ریو سان خوان محکمہ”
- Urdu: “ریو سان خوان”
- Uzbek: “Rio San Juan Departamenti”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Río San Juan”
- Vietnamese: “Río San Juan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Río San Juan (departamento)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Río San Juan”
- “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- “Río San Juan”
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