Concepción
Concepción, also known by its aboriginal name Omeyatecihua from the Nawat language, is one of two volcanoes that form the island of Ometepe, which is situated in Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua, Central America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 1,610 metres
- Description: Volcano in Nicaragua, Ometepe Island
- Also known as: “Alta Gracia”, “El Ometepe”, “Volcán Concepción”, “Volcán Ometepe”, “Volcán Omotepe”, and “Vulcano Concepción”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Altagracia and Moyogalpa.
Altagracia
Altagracia is a municipality in the Rivas Department of Nicaragua. It is the largest town on the island of Ometepe, above the town of Moyogalpa. Its original name was Astagalpa, meaning ‘house of the herons’ in Nahuatl.
Moyogalpa
Photo: jessicadally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moyogalpa is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua. Moyogalpa is the largest village and the home of the largest of the three ferry ports on Ometepe Island.
Concepción
- Category: landform
- Location: Rivas Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.53901° or 11° 32′ 20″ northLongitude
-85.62258° or 85° 37′ 21″ westElevation
1,610 metres (5,282 feet)Open location code
763PG9QG+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 175897820OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Concepción from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Concepción” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Concepción sumendia”
- Catalan: “Concepción”
- Cebuano: “Volcán Concepción”
- Chinese: “康塞普西翁火山”
- Croatian: “Concepción”
- Czech: “Concepción”
- Dutch: “Concepción”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كونسيپسيون”
- Finnish: “Concepción”
- French: “Concepción”
- Georgian: “კონსეფსიონი”
- German: “Concepción”
- Hebrew: “קונספסיון (הר געש)”
- Hungarian: “Concepción”
- Italian: “Concepción”
- Japanese: “コンセプシオン山”
- Korean: “콘셉션 산”
- Korean: “콘셉시온 화산”
- Korean: “콘셉시온산”
- Ladin: “Concepción”
- Latvian: “Konsepsjons”
- Lithuanian: “Konsepsjono ugnikalnis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Concepción”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volcán Concepción”
- Norwegian: “Concepción”
- Persian: “آتشفشان کونسپسیون”
- Persian: “اتشفشان کونسپسیون”
- Polish: “Concepcion”
- Polish: “Concepción”
- Portuguese: “Concepción (vulcão)”
- Portuguese: “Concepción”
- Russian: “Консепсьон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Concepción (vulkan)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Concepción”
- Slovak: “Concepción”
- Slovenian: “Vulkan Concepción”
- Spanish: “Concepcion”
- Spanish: “Concepción”
- Spanish: “Volcan Concepcion”
- Spanish: “Volcan Concepción”
- Spanish: “Volcán Concepcion”
- Spanish: “Volcán Concepción”
- Swedish: “Concepción”
- Turkish: “Concepción Yanardağı”
- Ukrainian: “Консепсьйон”
- Venetian: “Concepción”
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