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North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region

Bilwi

Bilwi, also known as Puerto Cabezas, is a small port city on the Miskito Coast of .
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  • Type: City with 77,900 residents
  • Description: municipality in Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Bragman’s Bluff”, “Municipality of Puerto Cabezas”, “Puerto Cabezas”, and “Puerto Cabezas Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bilwi Airport.

Aerodrome
Puerto Cabezas Airport is an airport serving Puerto Cabezas, . It is located approximately one hour from by aircraft.

Bilwi

Latitude
14.0294° or 14° 1′ 46″ north
Longitude
-83.3831° or 83° 22′ 59″ west
Population
77,900
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
IATA airport code
PUZ
United Nations Location Code
NI PUZ
Open location code
766R2JH8+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306243099
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3617154
Wiki­data ID
Q1008456
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bilwi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بويرتو كابيزاس”
  • Armenian: “Պուերտո Կաբեսաս”
  • Asturian: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Basque: “Puerto Cabezas (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Basque: “Puerto Cabezasko udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Білві”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэрта-Кабесас”
  • Bengali: “পোয়ের্তো কাবেজাস”
  • Catalan: “Bilwi”
  • Catalan: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Puerto Cabezas”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Puerto Cabezas”
  • Cebuano: “Puerto Cabezas (kapital sa departamento sa Nikarawa)”
  • Cebuano: “Puerto Cabezas nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Chinese: “Puerto Cabezas（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Chinese: “Puerto Cabezas市镇”
  • Chinese: “卡貝薩斯港”
  • Chinese: “卡贝萨斯港”
  • Danish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Dutch: “Bilwi”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Puerto Cabezas”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Cabezas (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بويرتو كابيزاس”
  • Esperanto: “Bilwi”
  • Esperanto: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Finnish: “Bilwi”
  • Finnish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • French: “Puerto Cabezas (municipalité)”
  • French: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Georgian: “ბილვი”
  • German: “Bilwi”
  • German: “Bragman’s Bluff”
  • German: “Gemeinde Puerto Cabezas”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Puerto Cabezas”
  • German: “Puerto Cabezas (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Greek: “Puerto Cabezas (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Puerto Cabezas”
  • Greek: “Πουέρτο Καμπέσας”
  • Gujarati: “પ્યુર્ટો કાબેઝાસ”
  • Hindi: “बिल्वी (प्वेर्टो कैबेज़स)”
  • Hindi: “बिल्वी”
  • Indonesian: “Bilwi”
  • Indonesian: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Irish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Italian: “Bilwi”
  • Italian: “Comune di Puerto Cabezas”
  • Italian: “Puerto Cabezas (comune)”
  • Italian: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Japanese: “Puerto Cabezas（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “Puerto Cabezas自治体”
  • Japanese: “プエルト・カベサス”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ಕ್ಯಾಬಿಯಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “푸에르토카베사스”
  • Latvian: “Puertokabesa”
  • Latvian: “Puertokabesasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerto Kabesasas”
  • Malay: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Marathi: “प्वेर्टो क्याबिजास”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Puerto Cabezas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puerto Cabezas chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Moksha: “Пуэрто Кабэзас”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Polish: “Bilwi”
  • Polish: “Gmina Puerto Cabezas”
  • Polish: “Puerto Cabezas (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Portuguese: “Bilwi”
  • Portuguese: “Bragman’s Bluff”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Puerto Cabezas”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Cabeças”
  • Portuguese: “Puerto Cabezas (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Russian: “Puerto Cabezas (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Puerto Cabezas”
  • Russian: “Пуэрто-Кабесас”
  • Serbian: “Пуерто Кабезас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Sinhala: “පුවර්ටෝ කබෙසාස්”
  • Spanish: “Bilwi”
  • Spanish: “Bragman’s Bluff”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Puerto Cabezas”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Cabezas (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Swedish: “Bilwi”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Cabezas (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Cabezas kommun”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Tamil: “போர்டோ சபேசஸ்”
  • Telugu: “పూయిర్తో క్యాబేజేస్”
  • Thai: “ปูเอร์โตกาเบซัส”
  • Turkish: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • Ukrainian: “Білві”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуерто-Кабесас”
  • Urdu: “پویرتو کابیساس”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Puerto Cabezas”
  • Vietnamese: “Puerto Cabezas (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Puerto Cabezas”
  • “Puerto Cabezas”

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