El Gigante
El Gigante is a village in Rivas Department, Nicaragua and has about 322 residents. El Gigante is situated nearby to the hamlet Guacalito de la Isla, as well as near the locality Los Perros.- Type: Village with 322 residents
- Description: village in Nicaragua, Pacific Coast
- Also known as: “Gigante” and “Playa Gigante”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Emerald Coast Airport.
Emerald Coast Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Eric Phelps, CC BY 3.0.
Emerald Coast Airport is an international airport 10 kilometres west of Tola, a town in the Rivas Department of Nicaragua. The airport was opened on November 15, 2015, at a cost of almost US$13 million. Emerald Coast Airport is situated 4 km north of El Gigante.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Playa Gigante.
Playa Gigante
Photo: Ridiculopathy, CC0.
Playa Gigante is a remote beach north of San Juan del Sur on the Southern Pacific Coast region of Nicaragua.
El Gigante
- Category: locality
- Location: Rivas Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.39169° or 11° 23′ 30″ northLongitude
-86.03308° or 86° 1′ 59″ westPopulation
322Open location code
763M9XR8+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1675904159OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3619776Wikidata ID
Q125826362
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“El Gigante” goes by many names.
- French: “El Gigante”
- French: “Gigante”
- French: “Playa Gigante”
- German: “El Gigante”
- German: “Gigante”
- German: “Playa Gigante”
- Spanish: “El Gigante”
- Spanish: “Gigante”
- Spanish: “Playa Gigante”
- Swedish: “El Gigante, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “El Gigante”
- Swedish: “Gigante”
- Swedish: “Playa Gigante”
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Localities in the Area
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