Masaya
Masaya is the capital city of Masaya Department in Nicaragua. It is situated approximately 14 km west of Granada and 31 km southeast of Managua. It is located just east of the Masaya Volcano, an active volcano from which the city takes its name.
- Type: Locality with 130,000 residents
- Description: urban settlement and municipal seat in Masaya Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Bandar Masaya”, “Belt Masaya”, “Byen Masaya”, “Cidade de Masaya”, “City of Masaya”, “Ciudá de Masaya”, “Ciudad de Masaya”, “Ciutat de Masaya”, “Dakbayan sa Masaya”, “Dinas Masaya”, “Grad Masaya”, “Kêr Masaya”, “Kota Masaya”, “Marka Masaya”, “Masaya (city)”, “Masaya (ciudad)”, “Masaya (kapital sa departamento)”, “Masaya (kaupunki)”, “Masaya (lungsod)”, “Masaya (Masaya)”, “Masaya (ort)”, “Masaya (Stadt)”, “Masaya (ville)”, “Masaya altepetl (altepetl)”, “Masaya linn”, “Masaya pilsēta”, “Masaya şehri”, “Masaya şəhəri”, “Masaya shahri”, “Masaya város”, “Masaya, Masaya”, “Město Masaya”, “Miasto Masaya”, “Orașul Masaya”, “Sità de Masaya”, “Sità Masaya”, “Siudat di Masaya”, “Stad Masaya”, “Stadt Masaya”, “Stod Masaya”, “Syudad han Masaya”, “Taun Masaya”, “Thành phố Masaya”, “Toun o Masaya”, “Town a Masaya”, “Urbo Masaya”, “Vil Masaya”, “Ville de Masaya”, “Муниципалитет Масая”, “მუნიციპალიტეტი მასაია”, “Համայնք Մասայա”, “بلدية ماسايا”, “नगरपालिका मसाया”, “পৌরসভা মাসায়া”, “નગરપાલિકા માસાયા”, “మున్సిపాలిటీ మసాయా”, “ಪುರಸಭೆ ಮಸಾಯಾ”, “නගර සභාව මසායා”, “เทศบาล มาซายา”, “མུ་ནི་སི་པལ་ལི་ཏི མ་ས་ཡ།”, “마사야 지방자치단체”, “マサヤ自治体”, “馬薩亞市鎮”, and “马萨亚市镇”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Fortaleza El Coyotepe and Our Lady of the Assumption Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Masaya and Nindirí.
Nindirí
Town
Nandasmo
Town
Nandasmo is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. Nandasmo is situated 6 km southwest of Masaya.
Masaya
- Categories: big city, municipal seat in Nicaragua, and departmental capital of Nicaragua
- Location: Masaya Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.9732° or 11° 58′ 23″ north
Longitude
-86.0959° or 86° 5′ 45″ west
Population
130,000
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
UN/LOCODE
NI MAS
Open location code
763MXWF3+7M
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“Masaya” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማሳያ”
- Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Armenian: “Մասայա”
- Asturian: “Masaya”
- Aymara: “Masaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Masaya”
- Basque: “Masaya”
- Belarusian: “Масая”
- Bengali: “মাসায়া”
- Breton: “Masaya”
- Bulgarian: “Масая”
- Cebuano: “Masaya”
- Chechen: “Масая”
- Chinese: “馬薩亞”
- Chinese: “马萨亚”
- Croatian: “Masaya”
- Czech: “Masaya”
- Danish: “Masaya”
- Dutch: “Masaya”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Esperanto: “Masaya”
- Finnish: “Masaya”
- French: “Masaya”
- Galician: “Masaya”
- Georgian: “მასაია”
- German: “Masaya”
- Greek: “Μασάγια”
- Hausa: “Masaya”
- Hebrew: “מסאיה”
- Hindi: “मसाया”
- Indonesian: “Masaya”
- Irish: “Masaya”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Masaya”
- Japanese: “マサヤ”
- Javanese: “Masaya”
- Kannada: “ಮಸಾಯಾ”
- Kazakh: “Масая”
- Kirghiz: “Масая”
- Korean: “마사야”
- Ladino: “Masaya”
- Latvian: “Masaya”
- Lithuanian: “Masaja”
- Lithuanian: “Masaya”
- Macedonian: “Масая”
- Malay: “Masaya”
- Maltese: “Masaya”
- Marathi: “मसाया”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ماسايا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masaya”
- Oromo: “Masaya”
- Ossetian: “Масая”
- Panjabi: “ਮਸਾਯਾ”
- Papiamento: “Masaya”
- Persian: “ماسايا”
- Persian: “ماسایا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Masaya”
- Portuguese: “Masaya”
- Pushto: “ماسایا”
- Russian: “Масая”
- Scots: “Masaya”
- Serbian: “Масая”
- Slovak: “Masaya”
- Somali: “Masaya”
- Spanish: “Masaya”
- Swahili: “Masaya”
- Swedish: “Masaya”
- Tajik: “Масая”
- Tamil: “மசாயா”
- Tatar: “Масая”
- Thai: “มาซายา”
- Tibetan: “མ་ས་ཡ།”
- Turkish: “Masaya”
- Urdu: “ماسايا”
- Urdu: “ماسایا”
- Uzbek: “Masaya”
- Venetian: “Masaya”
- Vietnamese: “Masaya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Masaya”
- Welsh: “Masaya”
- “Masaya”
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