Cárdenas
Cárdenas is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua. In 2002, the municipality of Cárdenas had threatened the government in Managua with secession and becoming part of Costa Rica. Costa Rica claimed that it would respect Nicaraguan territory and had no intention of annexing the municipality.- Type: Town with 934 residents
- Description: municipality in Rivas Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Cárdenas Municipality”, “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”, “La Concepción”, “Municipality of Cárdenas”, and “Municipio de Cardenas”
Cárdenas
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Rivas Department, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.1971° or 11° 11′ 50″ northLongitude
-85.5095° or 85° 30′ 34″ westPopulation
934Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)Open location code
763P5FWR+R6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3892176308OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3620478Wikidata ID
Q1647924
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Cárdenas” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cárdenas”
- Asturian: “Cárdenas”
- Basque: “Cárdenas (Nikaragua)”
- Basque: “Cárdenas (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Cárdenas”
- Basque: “Cárdenasko udalerria”
- Cebuano: “Cárdenas nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “Cárdenas”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Cárdenas”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Cárdenas”
- Chinese: “Cárdenas”
- Chinese: “卡德納斯(市镇)”
- Chinese: “卡德納斯”
- Chinese: “卡德納斯市镇”
- Dutch: “Cárdenas (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Cárdenas”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Cárdenas”
- French: “Cárdenas (municipalité)”
- French: “Cárdenas”
- French: “Municipalité de Cárdenas”
- German: “Cárdenas (Gemeinde)”
- German: “Cárdenas”
- German: “Gemeinde Cárdenas”
- German: “Gemeinde von Cárdenas”
- Greek: “Δήμος Κάρδενας”
- Greek: “Κάρδενας (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Κάρδενας”
- Irish: “Cárdenas”
- Italian: “Cárdenas (comune)”
- Italian: “Cárdenas”
- Italian: “Comune di Cárdenas”
- Japanese: “カルデナス (ニカラグア)”
- Japanese: “カルデナス(自治体)”
- Japanese: “カルデナス”
- Japanese: “カルデナス自治体”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cárdenas (Rivas)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cárdenas chhiūⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cárdenas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Cárdenas”
- Polish: “Cárdenas (gmina)”
- Polish: “Gmina Cárdenas”
- Portuguese: “Cárdenas (município)”
- Portuguese: “Cárdenas (Nicarágua)”
- Portuguese: “Cárdenas”
- Portuguese: “Município de Cárdenas”
- Russian: “Карденас (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Карденас”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Карденас”
- Spanish: “Cárdenas (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “Cárdenas”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Cárdenas”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas kommun”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas”
- Urdu: “کاردیناس، ریواز”
- Urdu: “کاردیناس”
- Vietnamese: “Cárdenas (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”
- Vietnamese: “Cárdenas”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị Cárdenas”
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