North America
Central America
Nicaragua

Lake Nicaragua

Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada is a freshwater in . Of tectonic origin and with an area of 8,264 km2, it is the largest fresh water lake in , the 19th largest lake in the world and the tenth largest in the Americas, slightly smaller than .
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: largest lake in Central America
  • Also known as: “Cocibolca”, “Gran Lago de Nicaragua”, “Granada”, “Lake Cocibolca”, “Lake of Nicaragua”, and “Nicaragua”

Lake Nicaragua

Latitude
11.6873° or 11° 41′ 14″ north
Longitude
-85.47863° or 85° 28′ 43″ west
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Open location code
763PMGPC+WG
Geo­Names ID
3617477
Wiki­data ID
Q173862
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lake Nicaragua” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cocibolcameer”
  • Afrikaans: “Nicaraguameer”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni Cocibolca”
  • Albanian: “Liqeni i Nikaraguas”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة كوكيبولكا”
  • Arabic: “بحيرة نيكاراغوا”
  • Armenian: “լիճ Նիկարագուա”
  • Armenian: “Կոկիբոլկա լիճ”
  • Armenian: “Նիկարագուա լիճ”
  • Armenian: “Նիկարագուա”
  • Asturian: “Llagu Cocibolca”
  • Asturian: “Llagu de Nicaragua”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cocibolca gölü”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nikaraqua gölü”
  • Bashkir: “Кокиболка күле”
  • Bashkir: “Никарагуа күле”
  • Bashkir: “Никарагуа”
  • Basque: “Cocibolca aintzira”
  • Basque: “Nikaragua aintzira”
  • Basque: “Nikaragua lakua”
  • Basque: “Nikaraguako aintzira”
  • Belarusian: “Возера Касіболька”
  • Belarusian: “Возера Нікарагуа”
  • Belarusian: “Нікарагуа”
  • Bengali: “কোকিবোলকা হ্রদ”
  • Bengali: “নিকরাগুয়া হ্রদ”
  • Bengali: “নিকারাগুয়া হ্রদ”
  • Breton: “Lenn Cocibolca”
  • Breton: “Lenn Nicaragua”
  • Bulgarian: “Езеро Кокиболка”
  • Bulgarian: “Езеро Никарагуа”
  • Bulgarian: “Езерото Никарагуа”
  • Bulgarian: “Никарагуа”
  • Burmese: “ကိုစီဘိုးလ်ကာကန်”
  • Burmese: “နီကာရာဂွာကန်”
  • Catalan: “llac Cocibolca”
  • Catalan: “llac de Nicaragua”
  • Catalan: “Llac de Nicaragua”
  • Catalan: “Llac Nicaragua”
  • Cebuano: “Lago de Nicaragua”
  • Cebuano: “Lanaw Cocibolca”
  • Cebuano: “Lanaw sa Nicaragua”
  • Chinese: “尼加拉瓜湖”
  • Chinese: “科西博尔卡湖”
  • Chinese: “科西博爾卡湖”
  • Chuvash: “Кокиболка кӳлӗ”
  • Chuvash: “Никарагуа кӳлӗ”
  • Chuvash: “Никарагуа”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Cocibolca”
  • Croatian: “Jezero Nikaragva”
  • Croatian: “Nicaragua”
  • Croatian: “Nikaragva”
  • Czech: “Jezero Cocibolca”
  • Czech: “Jezero Nicaragua”
  • Czech: “Nikaragua”
  • Czech: “Nikaragujské jezero”
  • Danish: “Cocibolcasøen”
  • Danish: “Nicaragua-søen”
  • Danish: “Nicaraguasøen”
  • Dutch: “Meer Cocibolca”
  • Dutch: “Meer van Nicaragua”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Esperanto: “Lago de Nikaragvo”
  • Esperanto: “Lago Nikaragvo”
  • Estonian: “Cocibolca järv”
  • Estonian: “Granada järv”
  • Estonian: “Nicaragua järv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lake Cocibolca”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nicaragua ke jhil”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nicaragua Talaab”
  • Finnish: “Cocibolcajärvi”
  • Finnish: “Nicaraguajärvi”
  • French: “lac Cocibolca”
  • French: “lac Nicaragua”
  • French: “Lac Nicaragua”
  • Galician: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Galician: “Lago de Nicaragua”
  • Georgian: “კოკიბოლკას ტბა”
  • Georgian: “ნიკარაგუას ტბა”
  • Georgian: “ნიკარაგუის ტბა”
  • Georgian: “ტბა ნიკარაგუა”
  • German: “Cocibolca-See”
  • German: “Nicaragua-See”
  • German: “Nicaraguasee”
  • Greek: “Κοσίμπολκα”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Κοσιμπολκά”
  • Greek: “Λίμνη Νικαράγουα”
  • Gujarati: “કોકિબોલકા સરોવર”
  • Gujarati: “નિકારાગુઆ સરોવર”
  • Hawaiian: “Ka Loko Cocibolca”
  • Hawaiian: “Ka Loko Nikaragua”
  • Hebrew: “אגם ניקרגואה”
  • Hebrew: “אגם קוסיבולקה”
  • Hindi: “कोकिबोल्का झील”
  • Hindi: “निकारागुआ झील”
  • Hungarian: “Cocibolca-tó”
  • Hungarian: “Nicaragua-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Cocibolca”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Nikaragua”
  • Italian: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Italian: “Lago Nicaragua”
  • Japanese: “コシボルカ湖”
  • Japanese: “ニカラグア湖”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಕಿಬೋಲ್ಕಾ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಕಾರಾಗುವಾ ಸರೋವರ”
  • Kazakh: “Кокиболка көлі”
  • Kazakh: “Никарагуа көлі”
  • Korean: “니카라과호”
  • Korean: “코시볼카호”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Cocibolca”
  • Kurdish: “Gola Nikaragwa”
  • Ladino: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Ladino: “Lago de Nikaragua”
  • Latin: “Lacus Cocibolcae”
  • Latin: “Lacus Nicaragua”
  • Latin: “Lacus Nicaraguae”
  • Latvian: “Cocibolcas ezers”
  • Latvian: “Nikaragvas ezers”
  • Lithuanian: “Cocibolcos ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Nikaragvos ežeras”
  • Lojban: “la .kocibolcas. lalxu”
  • Lojban: “la .nikaragwas. lalxu”
  • Lojban: “nikaraguas. zei lalxu”
  • Macedonian: “Езеро Кокиболка”
  • Macedonian: “Езеро Никарагва”
  • Macedonian: “Никарагва”
  • Malay: “Danau Nicaragua”
  • Malay: “Tasik Cocibolca”
  • Malay: “Tasik Nicaragua”
  • Malayalam: “Lake Nicaragua”
  • Malayalam: “കോസിബോൾക്ക തടാകം”
  • Malayalam: “നിക്കരാഗ്വ തടാകം”
  • Malayalam: “നിക്കാരാഗ്വ തടാകം”
  • Marathi: “कोकिबोल्का तलाव”
  • Marathi: “निकाराग्वा तलाव”
  • Mazanderani: “دریاچه کوکیبولکا”
  • Mazanderani: “دریاچه نیکارائوئا”
  • Mazanderani: “نیکاراگوئه دریاچه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cocibolca Ô͘”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nicaragua Ô͘”
  • Mingrelian: “კოკიბოლკას ტბა”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიკარაგუა”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიკარაგუას ტბა”
  • Mongolian: “Кокиболка нуур”
  • Mongolian: “Никарагуа нуур”
  • Nepali: “कोसिबोल्का ताल”
  • Nepali: “निकारागुआ ताल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cocibolcaai”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nicaraguaai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cocibolcasjøen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nicaraguasjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cocibolcasjøen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nicaraguasjøen”
  • Norwegian: “Nicaraguasjøen”
  • Ossetian: “Кокиболка озеро”
  • Ossetian: “Никарагуæ”
  • Ossetian: “Никарагуа озеро”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਕਿਬੋਲਕਾ ਝੀਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਕਾਰਾਗੂਆ ਝੀਲ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه کوکیبولکا”
  • Persian: “دریاچه نیکاراگوآ”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ نیکاراگوآ”
  • Persian: “دریاچه نیکاراگوئه”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ نیکاراگوئه”
  • Persian: “دریاچه نیکاراگوا”
  • Persian: “دریاچهٔ نیکاراگوا”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Cocibolca”
  • Polish: “Jezioro Nikaragua”
  • Polish: “Nikaragua”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Nicarágua”
  • Quechua: “Cocibolca qucha”
  • Quechua: “Nikarawa qucha”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Cocibolca”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Granada”
  • Romanian: “Lacul Nicaragua”
  • Russian: “Никарагуа”
  • Russian: “Озеро Кокиболька”
  • Russian: “Озеро Никарагуа”
  • Scots: “Cocibolca Loch”
  • Scots: “Nicaragua Loch”
  • Serbian: “Jezero Kokibolka”
  • Serbian: “Jezero Nikaragva”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Кокиболка”
  • Serbian: “Језеро Никарагва”
  • Serbian: “Никарагва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Cocibolca”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jezero Nikaragva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nikaragva”
  • Sinhala: “කොකිබෝල්කා විල”
  • Sinhala: “නිකරගුවා විල”
  • Slovak: “Jazero Cocibolca”
  • Slovak: “Nikaragua”
  • Slovak: “Nikaragujské jazero”
  • Slovenian: “Jezero Cocibolca”
  • Slovenian: “Nikaragovsko jezero”
  • Slovenian: “Nikaraguansko jezero”
  • Spanish: “Gran Lago”
  • Spanish: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Granada”
  • Spanish: “Lago de Nicaragua”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Cocibolca”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Nikaragua”
  • Swedish: “Cocibolcasjön”
  • Swedish: “Nicaraguasjön”
  • Tamil: “கோகிபோல்கா ஏரி”
  • Tamil: “நிக்கராகுவா ஏரி”
  • Telugu: “కోకిబోల్కా సరస్సు”
  • Telugu: “నికరాగువా సరస్సు”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบโคซิโบลกา”
  • Thai: “ทะเลสาบนิการากัว”
  • Turkish: “Cocibolca Gölü”
  • Turkish: “Nikaragua Gölü”
  • Twi: “Cocibolca Asubɔnten”
  • Twi: “Nikaragua Asubɔnten”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікарагуа”
  • Ukrainian: “Нікараґуа”
  • Ukrainian: “Озеро Кокіболька”
  • Ukrainian: “Озеро Нікарагуа”
  • Urdu: “جھیل کوکیبولکا”
  • Urdu: “جھیل نکاراگوا”
  • Uzbek: “Kokibolka ko‘li”
  • Uzbek: “Nikaragua ko‘li”
  • Uzbek: “Nikaragua”
  • Venetian: “Lago Cocibolca”
  • Venetian: “Lago de Nicaragua”
  • Veps: “Cocibolca järv”
  • Veps: “Nikaragua järv”
  • Veps: “Nikaragua”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Cocibolca”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Nicaragua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Danaw Nicaragua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lanaw Cocibolca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lanaw Nicaragua”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Cocibolca”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Nicaragua”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل کوکیبولکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “جھیل نکاراگوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼加拉瓜湖”
  • Wu Chinese: “科西博尔卡湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼加拉瓜湖”
  • Yue Chinese: “科西博爾卡湖”
  • “Lago Cocibolca”
  • “Lake Nicaragua”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lake Nicaragua”. Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Public domain.