Bosawás Biosphere Reserve
The Bosawás Biosphere Reserve is a tropical rainforest in Nicaragua designated as a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1997. At approximately 20,000 km2 in size, the reserve comprises about 15% of the nation's total land area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Wildlife reserve
- Description: nature reserve in Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Bosawas Biosphere Reserve” and “Reserva de la Biosfera Bosawás”
Bosawás Biosphere Reserve
- Category: biosphere reserve
- Location: Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Swedish—“Bosawás Biosphere Reserve” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বোসাস জীবমণ্ডল সংরক্ষিত এলাকা”
- Catalan: “Reserva de la biosfera Bosawás”
- Cebuano: “Bosawas Biosphere Reserve”
- Dutch: “Bosawás Biosphere Reserve”
- Esperanto: “Rezervejo Bosawas”
- Finnish: “Bosawasin biosfäärialue”
- French: “Réserve de biosphère de Bosawás”
- German: “Bosawás Biosphere Reserve”
- German: “Reserva de la Biosfera Bosawás”
- Hebrew: “השמורה הביוספרית בוסאוואס”
- Lithuanian: “Bosavaso biosferos rezervatas”
- Lithuanian: “Bosavaso gamtos draustinis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Resèrva de Bosawás”
- Persian: “ذخیرهگاه زیستکره بوواش”
- Russian: “Босавас (биосферный заповедник)”
- Russian: “Босавас”
- Serbian: “Босавас”
- Slovenian: “Biosferni rezervat Bosawás”
- Spanish: “Reserva Bosawás”
- Spanish: “Reserva de Bosawás”
- Spanish: “Reserva de la biosfera Bosawás”
- Spanish: “Reserva de la Biosfera Bosawás”
- Swedish: “Biosfärområdet Bosawás”
- “Bosawas Biosphere Reserve”
- “Reserva de la Biosfera Bosawás”
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