Nicaragua
Caribbean Nicaragua
South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region

Bluefields

Bluefields is a city and municipality on the central , and capital of the , . Historically, it held far greater significance as the political and administrative capital of the Kingdom of Mosquitia, which maintained independence and later protectorate status under Great Britain during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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  • Type: City with 54,500 residents
  • Description: municipality in Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Sur, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Blauvelt”, “Blewfield”, “Bluefields Municipality”, and “Municipality of Bluefields”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Glorias Costeñas and Bluefields Airport.

Stadium
Glorias Costeñas Stadium is a multi-use in Bluefields, . It is used for football matches and is the home stadium to Deportivo Bluefields and Nicaraguan baseball team Costa Caribe also play their home matches at the stadium.

Aerodrome
Bluefields International Airport is an airport serving Bluefields, a harbor city in the of . It is the busiest airport in the coast of Nicaragua.

Bluefields

Latitude
12.0132° or 12° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
-83.7649° or 83° 45′ 54″ west
Population
54,500
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
BEF
United Nations Location Code
NI BEF
Open location code
764R267P+72
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2773628551
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3620680
Wiki­data ID
Q885996
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bluefields” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلوفيلدز، نيكاراغوا”
  • Arabic: “بلوفيلدز”
  • Asturian: “Bluefields”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blufilds”
  • Basque: “Bluefields (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Bluefields”
  • Basque: “Bluefieldsko udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Блуфілдс”
  • Bengali: “ব্লুফিল্ডস”
  • Breton: “Bluefields”
  • Catalan: “Bluefields”
  • Cebuano: “Bluefields (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Bluefields nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Bluefields”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Bluefields”
  • Chinese: “Bluefields（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “Bluefields”
  • Chinese: “Bluefields市镇”
  • Chinese: “布盧菲爾茲”
  • Croatian: “Bluefields”
  • Czech: “Bluefields”
  • Danish: “Bluefields”
  • Dutch: “Bluefields (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Bluefields”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Bluefields”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلوفيلدز”
  • Esperanto: “Bluefields”
  • Finnish: “Bluefields”
  • French: “Bluefields (municipalité)”
  • French: “Bluefields”
  • Georgian: “ბლუეფილდსი”
  • Georgian: “ბლუფილდზი”
  • German: “Bluefields (Nicaragua)”
  • German: “Bluefields”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Bluefields”
  • Greek: “Bluefields (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Bluefields”
  • Greek: “Μπλούφιλντς”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લુફિલ્ડ્સ”
  • Hebrew: “בלופילדס”
  • Hindi: “ब्लूफ़ील्ड्स”
  • Hungarian: “Bluefields (Nicaragua)”
  • Hungarian: “Bluefields”
  • Indonesian: “Bluefields”
  • Italian: “Bluefields”
  • Italian: “Comune di Bluefields”
  • Japanese: “Bluefields（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “Bluefields自治体”
  • Japanese: “ブルー・フィールズ”
  • Japanese: “ブルーフィールズ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲೂಫೀಲ್ಡ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “블루필즈”
  • Latvian: “Bliufildsa”
  • Latvian: “Blūfīldsa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bliufildsas”
  • Lithuanian: “Blufildsas”
  • Malay: “Bluefields”
  • Marathi: “ब्लूफिल्डस”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bluefields chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bluefields”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Bluefields”
  • Moksha: “Блуфилдс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bluefields”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bluefields”
  • Norwegian: “Bluefields”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bluefields”
  • Ossetian: “Блуфилдс”
  • Polish: “Bluefields (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Bluefields”
  • Polish: “Gmina Bluefields”
  • Portuguese: “Bluefields (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Bluefields”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Bluefields”
  • Romanian: “Bluefields”
  • Russian: “Bluefields (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Блуфилдс”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Bluefields”
  • Serbian: “Блуфилдс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bluefields”
  • Sinhala: “බ්ලූෆිල්ඩ්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Bluefields”
  • Slovenian: “Bluefields”
  • Spanish: “Bluefields (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Bluefields”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Bluefields”
  • Swedish: “Bluefields (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Bluefields kommun”
  • Swedish: “Bluefields”
  • Tamil: “பிலுபிஈல்டிஸ்”
  • Telugu: “బ్లూఫీల్డ్స్”
  • Thai: “บลูฟิลส์”
  • Turkish: “Bluefields”
  • Ukrainian: “Блуфілдс”
  • Urdu: “بلوفیلڈز”
  • Vietnamese: “Bluefields (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bluefields”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Bluefields”
  • “Bluefields”
  • “Municipio de Bluefields”

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