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Chontales Department

Chontales is a department in . It covers an area of 6,481 km2 and has a population of 191,856. The capital is Juigalpa. Some 90 kilometres of land overlooks Lake Cocibolca on the western side.
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  • Type: department of Nicaragua with 192,000 residents
  • Description: department in central Nicaragua with the capital Juigalpa, bordering Lake Nicaragua, known for agriculture and cattle ranching
  • Also known as: “Chontales”
  • Neighbors:

Chontales Department

Latitude
12.0833° or 12° 5′ north
Longitude
-85.1667° or 85° 10′ west
Population
192,000
Elevation
353 metres (1,158 feet)
Open location code
764P3RMM+88
Geo­Names ID
3620368
Wiki­data ID
Q498443
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yoruba—“Chontales Department” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Chontales”
  • Albanian: “Departamenti i Chontalesit”
  • Arabic: “إدارة تشونتالس”
  • Arabic: “إدارة تشونتاليس”
  • Arabic: “تشونتاليس”
  • Armenian: “Չոնտալես”
  • Armenian: “Չոնտալեսի դեպարտամենտ”
  • Asturian: “Chontales”
  • Asturian: “Departamentu de Chontales”
  • Azerbaijani: “Chontales”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çontales departamenti”
  • Basque: “Chontales departamendua”
  • Basque: “Chontales”
  • Basque: “Chontalesko departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Чанталес”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Чонталес”
  • Belarusian: “Дэпартамэнт Чонталес”
  • Belarusian: “Чанталес (дэпартамэнт)”
  • Belarusian: “Чанталес (Нікарагуа)”
  • Belarusian: “Чанталес”
  • Belarusian: “Чонталес”
  • Bengali: “কুন্টালেস বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “চোনতালেস বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “চোনতালেস”
  • Bengali: “চোন্তালেস”
  • Breton: “Chontales”
  • Breton: “Departamant Chontales”
  • Bulgarian: “Департамент Чонталес”
  • Bulgarian: “Чонталес”
  • Catalan: “Chontales”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Chontales”
  • Cebuano: “Chontales”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Chontales”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento sa Chontales”
  • Chinese: “Chontales Koān”
  • Chinese: “琼塔莱斯”
  • Chinese: “琼塔莱斯省”
  • Chinese: “琼塔萊斯”
  • Chinese: “琼塔萊斯省”
  • Chinese: “瓊塔萊斯”
  • Chinese: “瓊塔萊斯省”
  • Croatian: “Chontales”
  • Croatian: “Departman Chontales”
  • Czech: “Chontales”
  • Czech: “Departement Chontales”
  • Danish: “Chontales Department”
  • Danish: “Chontales-departementet”
  • Danish: “Chontales”
  • Dutch: “Chontales”
  • Dutch: “Departement Chontales”
  • Esperanto: “Chontales”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉontales”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ĉontales”
  • Estonian: “Chontales”
  • Estonian: “Chontalese departemang”
  • Finnish: “Chontales”
  • Finnish: “Chontalesin departementti”
  • French: “Chontales”
  • French: “département de Chontales”
  • French: “Département de Chontales”
  • Galician: “Chontales”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Chontales”
  • Georgian: “ჩონტალესი”
  • Georgian: “ჩონტალესის დეპარტამენტი”
  • Georgian: “ხინოტეგას დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Chontales”
  • German: “Departamento Chontales”
  • Greek: “Διαμέρισμα Τσοντάλες”
  • Greek: “Τσοντάλες”
  • Gujarati: “ચોનતાલેસ વિભાગ”
  • Gujarati: “ચોનતાલેસ”
  • Gujarati: “ચોન્ટલેસ વિભાગ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז צ’ונטאלס”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ונטאלס”
  • Hindi: “कोन्टेल्स विभाग”
  • Hindi: “चोंटालेस”
  • Hindi: “चोनतालेस विभाग”
  • Hindi: “चोनतालेस”
  • Hungarian: “Chontales megye”
  • Hungarian: “Chontales”
  • Icelandic: “Chontales-deild”
  • Icelandic: “Chontales”
  • Indonesian: “Chontales”
  • Indonesian: “Departemen Chontales”
  • Italian: “Chontales”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Chontales”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Chontales”
  • Japanese: “チョンタレス”
  • Japanese: “チョンタレス県”
  • Kannada: “ಚೊಂಟಲೇಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಚೊಂಟಲೇಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಚೊಂಟಾಲ್ಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “촌탈레스”
  • Korean: “촌탈레스주”
  • Ladino: “Chontales”
  • Ladino: “Departamento de Chontales”
  • Latvian: “Chontales”
  • Latvian: “Čontales departaments”
  • Latvian: “Čontales”
  • Latvian: “Čontalesas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Chontales departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Chontales”
  • Lithuanian: “Čontalesas”
  • Lithuanian: “Čontaleso departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Департман Чонталес”
  • Macedonian: “Чонталес”
  • Malay: “Chontales”
  • Malay: “Jabatan Chontales”
  • Malay: “Pentadbiran Chontales”
  • Marathi: “चोंटेल्स विभाग”
  • Marathi: “चोंतालेस विभाग”
  • Marathi: “चोंतालेस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chontales Koān”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chontales”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chontales”
  • Northern Frisian: “Departement Chontales”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chontales-departementet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chontales”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chontales-departementet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chontales”
  • Norwegian: “Chontales”
  • Ossetian: “Департамент Чонталес”
  • Ossetian: “Чонталес”
  • Persian: “بخش چونتالس”
  • Persian: “چُنتالس”
  • Persian: “چونتالس”
  • Polish: “Chontales”
  • Polish: “Departament Chontales”
  • Portuguese: “Chontales”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Chontales”
  • Quechua: “Chontales departamentu”
  • Quechua: “Chontales suyu”
  • Quechua: “Chontales”
  • Romanian: “Chontales”
  • Romanian: “Departamentul Chontales”
  • Russian: “Департамент Чонталес”
  • Russian: “Чонталес”
  • Scots: “Chontales Depairtment”
  • Scots: “Chontales Department”
  • Scots: “Chontales”
  • Serbian: “Департман Чонталес”
  • Serbian: “Чонталес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chontales”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Chontales”
  • Sinhala: “චොන්ටාලෙස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “චොන්ටාලෙස්”
  • Sinhala: “චොන්තාලේස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නිකරගුවාව”
  • Sinhala: “චෝන්ටලෙස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Slovak: “Chontales”
  • Slovak: “Departement Chontales”
  • Slovenian: “Chontales”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Chontales”
  • Spanish: “Chontales”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Chontales”
  • Swahili: “Chontales”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Chontales”
  • Swedish: “Chontales”
  • Swedish: “Chontalesdepartementet”
  • Tamil: “சொண்டாலெஸ்”
  • Tamil: “சொண்ட்லெஸ் துறை”
  • Tamil: “சொந்தாலெஸ் துறை”
  • Tamil: “சொந்தாலெஸ்”
  • Telugu: “చాంటేల్స్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “చాంటేల్స్ విభాగం”
  • Telugu: “చాంటేల్స్”
  • Telugu: “చోంటాలెస్ విభాగం”
  • Telugu: “చోంటాలెస్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดชอนตาเลส”
  • Thai: “ชอนตาเลส”
  • Turkish: “Chontales Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Chontales İli”
  • Turkish: “Chontales”
  • Ukrainian: “Департамент Чонталес”
  • Ukrainian: “Чонталес”
  • Urdu: “چونتالیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
  • Urdu: “چونتالیس محکمہ”
  • Urdu: “چونتالیس”
  • Urdu: “محکمہ چونتالیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Chontales”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Chontales”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Chontales”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chontales”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Departamento han Chontales”
  • Wu Chinese: “琼塔莱斯”
  • Wu Chinese: “琼塔莱斯省”
  • Yoruba: “Chontales”
  • Yoruba: “Ẹ̀ka Chontales”
  • “Chontales”
  • “Chontales Department”

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