El Castillo
El Castillo is a village of about 1,500 people situated on the southern bank of the Río San Juan in southern Nicaragua. It is one of 27 comarcas of the municipality of El Castillo, a subdivision of the Río San Juan Department.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 735 residents
- Description: historic village in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Castillo”, “Castillo Viejo”, “El Castillo de La Concepcion”, “El Castillo de La Concepción”, and “El Castillo Viejo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortress of the Immaculate Conception.
Fortress of the Immaculate Conception
Ruins
Photo: Hobbitschuster, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fortress of the Immaculate Conception, is a fortification located on the southern bank of the San Juan River, in the village of El Castillo in southern Nicaragua.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Castillo.
El Castillo
Photo: Stoschmidt, CC BY 3.0.
El Castillo is a town in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua. Since 1995, the fortress has been on a "tentative list" of important Nicaraguan cultural sites with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a preliminary to nomination for consideration as a World Heritage Site.
El Castillo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Rio San Juan Region, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.01888° or 11° 1′ 8″ northLongitude
-84.39702° or 84° 23′ 49″ westPopulation
735Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)Open location code
763Q2J93+H5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1553841773OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3619954Wikidata ID
Q5350957
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“El Castillo” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “El Castillo de La Concepción”
- Dutch: “El Castillo de La Concepción”
- Dutch: “El Castillo”
- German: “El Castillo”
- Spanish: “El Castillo de La Concepción”
- Spanish: “El Castillo Viejo”
- Spanish: “El Castillo”
- Swedish: “El Castillo de La Concepción”
- Swedish: “El Castillo”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “El Castillo”. Photo: DiverDave, CC BY-SA 3.0.