Central America
Nicaragua
Rio San Juan Region

El Castillo

El Castillo is a town in Rio San Juan department of . 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.
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  • 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

Latitude
11.0426° or 11° 2′ 34″ north
Longitude
-84.4723° or 84° 28′ 20″ west
Population
2,830
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
763Q2GVH+33
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1628881975
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9166159
Wiki­data ID
Q581121
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Vietnamese—“El Castillo” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “El Castillo (Nikaragua)”
  • Basque: “El Castillo”
  • Cebuano: “El Castillo (munisipyo sa Nikarawa)”
  • Cebuano: “El Castillo”
  • Chinese: “El Castillo”
  • Chinese: “埃爾卡斯蒂略”
  • Dutch: “El Castillo”
  • French: “El Castillo”
  • German: “El Castillo”
  • Italian: “El Castillo”
  • Japanese: “エル・カスティージョ”
  • Japanese: “エルカスティーヨ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “El Castillo (municipality)”
  • Portuguese: “El Castillo (Nicarágua)”
  • Portuguese: “El Castillo”
  • Spanish: “El Castillo (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “El Castillo Viejo”
  • 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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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.