El Castillo
El Castillo is a town in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua. Since 1995, the fortress has been on a "tentative list" of important Nicaraguan cultural sites with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a preliminary to nomination for consideration as a World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Stoschmidt, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,830 residents
- Description: municipality in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Boca de Sábalos”, “El Castillo Municipality”, “El Castillo Viejo”, “El Castillo, Nicaragua”, “Municipality of El Castillo”, and “Sábalos”
El Castillo
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Rio San Juan Region, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.0426° or 11° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
-84.4723° or 84° 28′ 20″ westPopulation
2,830Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
763Q2GVH+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 1628881975OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
9166159Wikidata ID
Q581121
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“El Castillo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “El Castillo”
- Basque: “El Castillo (Nikaragua)”
- Basque: “El Castillo (udalerria)”
- Basque: “El Castillo”
- Basque: “El Castilloko udalerria”
- Cebuano: “El Castillo (munisipyo sa Nikarawa)”
- Cebuano: “El Castillo nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “El Castillo”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa El Castillo”
- Chinese: “El Castillo”
- Chinese: “埃爾卡斯蒂略（市镇）”
- Chinese: “埃爾卡斯蒂略”
- Chinese: “埃爾卡斯蒂略市镇”
- Dutch: “El Castillo (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “El Castillo”
- Dutch: “Gemeente El Castillo”
- French: “El Castillo (municipalité)”
- French: “El Castillo”
- French: “Municipalité de El Castillo”
- German: “El Castillo (Gemeinde)”
- German: “El Castillo”
- German: “Gemeinde El Castillo”
- German: “Gemeinde von El Castillo”
- Greek: “Δήμος Ελ Καστίγιο”
- Greek: “Ελ Καστίγιο (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Ελ Καστίγιο”
- Italian: “Comune di El Castillo”
- Italian: “El Castillo (comune)”
- Italian: “El Castillo”
- Japanese: “エル・カスティージョ”
- Japanese: “エル・カスティーヨ（自治体）”
- Japanese: “エル・カスティーヨ”
- Japanese: “エル・カスティーヨ自治体”
- Japanese: “エルカスティージョ”
- Japanese: “エルカスティーヨ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ El Castillo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Castillo (municipality)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Castillo chhiūⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Castillo”
- Polish: “El Castillo (gmina)”
- Polish: “Gmina El Castillo”
- Portuguese: “El Castillo (município)”
- Portuguese: “El Castillo (Nicarágua)”
- Portuguese: “El Castillo”
- Portuguese: “Município de El Castillo”
- Russian: “El Castillo (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет El Castillo”
- Russian: “Эль-Кастильо”
- Spanish: “El Castillo (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “El Castillo Viejo”
- Spanish: “El Castillo”
- Spanish: “Municipio de El Castillo”
- Swedish: “El Castillo (kommun)”
- Swedish: “El Castillo kommun”
- Swedish: “El Castillo, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “El Castillo”
- Urdu: “ایل کاستیلو”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị El Castillo”
- Vietnamese: “El Castillo (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “El Castillo”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “El Castillo”. Photo: Stoschmidt, CC BY 3.0.