Central America
Nicaragua
North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region

Miskito Cays

The Miskito Cays are an archipelago of small cays and reefs with an area of 27 km. Other main islands are Maras Cay, Nasa Cay, and Morrison Denis Cay. The Miskito Cays Biological Reserve is one of 78 protected areas of Nicaragua, it was declared a in 1991.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: protected area of small cays and reefs in the Caribbean Sea off the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Cayos Miskitos”, “Cayos Miskitos y Franja Costera Inmediata”, “Cayos Mosquito”, “Mosquito Islands”, and “Reserva biológica Cayos Miskitos”

Miskito Cays

Latitude
14.38594° or 14° 23′ 9″ north
Longitude
-82.76554° or 82° 45′ 56″ west
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
766V96PM+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8743722617
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3617638
Wiki­data ID
Q1052045
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Miskito Cays” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزر ميسكيتوس”
  • Arabic: “كايوس ميسكيتوس”
  • Armenian: “Կայոս Միսկիտոս”
  • Armenian: “Միսկիտոս կղզիներ”
  • Asturian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Basque: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Bavarian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Belarusian: “Міскітас”
  • Bosnian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Breton: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайос Мискитос”
  • Bulgarian: “Острови Мискитос”
  • Catalan: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Cebuano: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Chinese: “米斯基托斯群岛”
  • Chinese: “米斯基托斯群島”
  • Chinese: “米斯基托群岛”
  • Chinese: “米斯基托群島”
  • Chinese: “米斯基托群礁”
  • Croatian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Czech: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Danish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Dutch: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Esperanto: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Estonian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Finnish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • French: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • French: “Miskito Cays”
  • French: “Reserva biológica Cayos Miskitos”
  • Galician: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Georgian: “კაიოს მისკიტოსი”
  • Georgian: “მისკიტოსის კუნძულები”
  • Georgian: “მოსკიტოს რიფები”
  • German: “Cayos Miskitos y Franja Costera Inmediata”
  • German: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • German: “Miskito Cays”
  • German: “Reserva biológica Cayos Miskitos”
  • Greek: “Κάγιος Μισκίτος”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Μισκίτος”
  • Haitian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Hebrew: “איי מיסקיטוס”
  • Hebrew: “קאיוֹס מיסקיטוס”
  • Hungarian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Ido: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Indonesian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Irish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Italian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Japanese: “カヨス・ミスキートス”
  • Japanese: “ミスキート・ケイズ”
  • Japanese: “ミスキートス諸島”
  • Japanese: “ミスキート諸島”
  • Korean: “미스키토 제도”
  • Korean: “미스키토 카이스”
  • Korean: “카요스 미스키토스”
  • Ladino: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Latvian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Lithuanian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Lithuanian: “Kajos Miskitos”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Macedonian: “Кајос Мискитос”
  • Macedonian: “Острови Мискитос”
  • Malay: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Maltese: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Papiamento: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Persian: “جزایر میسکیتوس”
  • Persian: “کایوس میسکیتوس”
  • Piemontese: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Polish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Portuguese: “Cayos miskitos”
  • Portuguese: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Romanian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Russian: “Кайос-Мискитос”
  • Russian: “Мискитос”
  • Russian: “Мискитосские острова”
  • Scots: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Serbian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Serbian: “Кајос Мискитос”
  • Serbian: “Мискитос острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Slovak: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Slovenian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Spanish: “Cayos Miskitos y Franja Costera Inmediata”
  • Spanish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Spanish: “Miskito Cays”
  • Spanish: “Reserva biológica Cayos Miskitos”
  • Swedish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Thai: “คาโยสมิสกีโตส”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะมิสกีโตส”
  • Turkish: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайос-Міскітоc”
  • Ukrainian: “Острови Міскітоc”
  • Uzbek: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Venetian: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Vietnamese: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cayos Miskitos”
  • Welsh: “Cayos Miskitos”
  • “Cayos Miskitos”
  • “Miskito Cays”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Miskito Cays”. Photo: El arzobispo, CC BY-SA 4.0.