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 (comune)”, “Cárdenas (đô thị)”, “Cárdenas (gemeente)”, “Cárdenas (Gemeinde)”, “Cárdenas (gmina)”, “Cárdenas (kommun)”, “Cárdenas (municipalité)”, “Cárdenas (Municipio)”, “Cárdenas (município)”, “Cárdenas (Nicarágua)”, “Cárdenas (Nikaragua)”, “Cárdenas (Rivas)”, “Cárdenas (udalerria)”, “Cárdenas chhiūⁿ”, “Cárdenas kommun”, “Cárdenas Municipality”, “Cárdenas nga Munisipyo”, “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”, “Cárdenasko udalerria”, “Chhiūⁿ Cárdenas”, “Comune di Cárdenas”, “Đô thị Cárdenas”, “Gemeente Cárdenas”, “Gemeinde Cárdenas”, “Gemeinde von Cárdenas”, “Gmina Cárdenas”, “La Concepción”, “Municipalité de Cárdenas”, “Municipality of Cárdenas”, “Municipio de Cardenas”, “Município de Cárdenas”, “Munisipyo sa Cárdenas”, “Δήμος Κάρδενας”, “Κάρδενας (δήμος)”, “Карденас (муниципалитет)”, “Муниципалитет Карденас”, “カルデナス (ニカラグア)”, “カルデナス（自治体）”, “カルデナス自治体”, “卡德納斯（市镇）”, and “卡德納斯市镇”
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″ north
Longitude
-85.5095° or 85° 30′ 34″ west
Population
934
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Open location code
763P5FWR+R6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Cárdenas” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Cárdenas”
- Asturian: “Cárdenas”
- Basque: “Cárdenas”
- Cebuano: “Cárdenas”
- Chinese: “卡德納斯”
- Dutch: “Cárdenas”
- French: “Cárdenas”
- German: “Cárdenas”
- Greek: “Κάρδενας”
- Irish: “Cárdenas”
- Italian: “Cárdenas”
- Japanese: “カルデナス”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cárdenas”
- Portuguese: “Cárdenas”
- Russian: “Карденас”
- Spanish: “Cárdenas”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Cárdenas”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “Cárdenas”
- Urdu: “کاردیناس، ریواز”
- Urdu: “کاردیناس”
- Vietnamese: “Cárdenas, Nicaragua”
- Vietnamese: “Cárdenas”
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