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.
- Type: Town with 2,830 residents
- Description: municipality in Río San Juan Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Boca de Sábalos”, “Chhiūⁿ El Castillo”, “Comune di El Castillo”, “Đô thị El Castillo”, “El Castillo (comune)”, “El Castillo (đô thị)”, “El Castillo (gemeente)”, “El Castillo (Gemeinde)”, “El Castillo (gmina)”, “El Castillo (kommun)”, “El Castillo (municipalité)”, “El Castillo (municipality)”, “El Castillo (Municipio)”, “El Castillo (município)”, “El Castillo (munisipyo sa Nikarawa)”, “El Castillo (Nicarágua)”, “El Castillo (Nikaragua)”, “El Castillo (udalerria)”, “El Castillo (муниципалитет)”, “El Castillo chhiūⁿ”, “El Castillo kommun”, “El Castillo Municipality”, “El Castillo nga Munisipyo”, “El Castillo Viejo”, “El Castillo, Nicaragua”, “El Castilloko udalerria”, “Gemeente El Castillo”, “Gemeinde El Castillo”, “Gemeinde von El Castillo”, “Gmina El Castillo”, “Municipalité de El Castillo”, “Municipality of El Castillo”, “Município de El Castillo”, “Munisipyo sa El Castillo”, “Sábalos”, “Δήμος Ελ Καστίγιο”, “Ελ Καστίγιο (δήμος)”, “Муниципалитет El Castillo”, “エル・カスティージョ”, “エル・カスティーヨ（自治体）”, “エル・カスティーヨ自治体”, “エルカスティージョ”, “エルカスティーヨ”, “埃爾卡斯蒂略（市镇）”, and “埃爾卡斯蒂略市镇”
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″ north
Longitude
-84.4723° or 84° 28′ 20″ west
Population
2,830
Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)
Open location code
763Q2GVH+33
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“El Castillo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “El Castillo”
- Basque: “El Castillo”
- Cebuano: “El Castillo”
- Chinese: “埃爾卡斯蒂略”
- Dutch: “El Castillo”
- French: “El Castillo”
- German: “El Castillo”
- Greek: “Ελ Καστίγιο”
- Italian: “El Castillo”
- Japanese: “エル・カスティーヨ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “El Castillo”
- Portuguese: “El Castillo”
- Russian: “Эль-Кастильо”
- Spanish: “El Castillo”
- Spanish: “Municipio de El Castillo”
- Swedish: “El Castillo, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “El Castillo”
- Urdu: “ایل کاستیلو”
- Vietnamese: “El Castillo”
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