Potosí
Potosí is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua. The primary industry is agriculture. It is the birthplace of Don José Laureano Pineda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 11,900 residents
- Description: municipality in Rivas Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Municipality of Potosí”, “Potosi”, “Potosí Municipality”, and “Potosí, Nicaragua”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belén and Buenos Aires.
Belén
Town
Belén is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua with approximately 22,000 inhabitants. Belén is situated 3½ km west of Potosí.
Buenos Aires
Town
Buenos Aires is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua. Buenos Aires is situated 5 km southeast of Potosí.
Rivas
Photo: Eric Phelps, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rivas is a city and municipality in southwestern Nicaragua on the Isthmus of the same name. The city proper is the capital of the Department of Rivas and administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name.
Potosí
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Rivas Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.49466° or 11° 29′ 41″ northLongitude
-85.85612° or 85° 51′ 22″ westPopulation
11,900Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)Open location code
763PF4VV+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3108830274OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3617187Wikidata ID
Q1647911
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Potosí” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Potosí”
- Basque: “Potosí (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Potosí”
- Basque: “Potosíko udalerria”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Potosí”
- Cebuano: “Potosí nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “Potosí”
- Chinese: “Potosí”
- Chinese: “波托西（市镇）”
- Chinese: “波托西”
- Chinese: “波托西市镇”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Potosí”
- Dutch: “Potosí (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Potosí”
- French: “Municipalité de Potosí”
- French: “Potosí (municipalité)”
- French: “Potosí”
- German: “Gemeinde Potosí”
- German: “Gemeinde von Potosí”
- German: “Potosí (Gemeinde)”
- German: “Potosí”
- Greek: “Δήμος Ποτοσί”
- Greek: “Ποτοσί (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Ποτοσί”
- Italian: “Comune di Potosí”
- Italian: “Potosí (comune)”
- Italian: “Potosí”
- Japanese: “ポトシ（ニカラグア）”
- Japanese: “ポトシ（自治体）”
- Japanese: “ポトシ”
- Japanese: “ポトシ自治体”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Potosí”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Potosí chhiūⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Potosí”
- Polish: “Gmina Potosí”
- Polish: “Potosí (gmina)”
- Portuguese: “Município de Potosí”
- Portuguese: “Potosí (município)”
- Portuguese: “Potosí (Nicarágua)”
- Portuguese: “Potosí”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Потоси”
- Russian: “Потоси (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Потоси”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Potosí”
- Spanish: “Potosí (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “Potosí”
- Swedish: “Potosí (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Potosí kommun”
- Swedish: “Potosí, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “Potosí”
- Urdu: “پوتوسی، ریواز”
- Urdu: “پوتوسی”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị Potosí”
- Vietnamese: “Potosí (đô thị)”
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