Nicaragua
Northern Highlands
Jinotega Department

Jinotega

Jinotega is a city in the of of 53,265 inhabitants. Located in a valley 142 km North of , it is the capital of the municipality and department of the same name.
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  • Type: City with 150,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Jinotega Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Jinotega Municipality”, “Municipalilty of Jinotega”, “Municipality of Jinotega”, and “San Juan de Jinotega”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Diocese of Jinotega and St. John Cathedral.

Church
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The Roman Catholic is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Managua. It was elevated on 30 April 1991.

Church
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The Cathedral of Saint John or simply Jinotega Cathedral, located in central Jinotega, , is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jinotega.

Jinotega

Latitude
13.092° or 13° 5′ 31″ north
Longitude
-86.0032° or 86° 0′ 11″ west
Population
150,000
Elevation
998 metres (3,274 feet)
Open location code
765M3XRW+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5823779901
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3618927
Wiki­data ID
Q1026296
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Jinotega” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خينوتيغا”
  • Aragonese: “Jinotega, Nicaragua”
  • Aragonese: “Jinotega”
  • Asturian: “Jinotega”
  • Basque: “Jinotega (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Jinotega”
  • Basque: “Jinotegako udalerria”
  • Bengali: “জিনোতেগা”
  • Bhojpuri: “ज़ीनोटेया”
  • Catalan: “Jinotega”
  • Cebuano: “Jinotega (kapital sa departamento sa Nicaragua)”
  • Cebuano: “Jinotega nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Jinotega”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Jinotega”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Jinotega”
  • Chinese: “Jinotega（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “Jinotega”
  • Chinese: “Jinotega市镇”
  • Chinese: “希诺特加”
  • Chinese: “希諾特加”
  • Czech: “Jinotega”
  • Danish: “Jinotega”
  • Danish: “Municipio de Jinotega”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Jinotega”
  • Dutch: “Jinotega (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Jinotega”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خينوتيجا”
  • Esperanto: “Jinotega”
  • Finnish: “Jinotega”
  • French: “Jinotega (municipalité)”
  • French: “Jinotega”
  • French: “Municipalité de Jinotega”
  • Galician: “Jinotega”
  • German: “Gemeinde Jinotega”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Jinotega”
  • German: “Jinotega (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Jinotega”
  • German: “San Juan de Jinotega”
  • Greek: “Jinotega (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Jinotega”
  • Greek: “Χινοτέγα”
  • Gujarati: “જિનોટેગા”
  • Hawaiian: “Jinotega”
  • Hebrew: “חינוטגה”
  • Hindi: “जिनोटेगा”
  • Hungarian: “Jinotega”
  • Indonesian: “Jinotega”
  • Irish: “Jinotega”
  • Italian: “Comune di Jinotega”
  • Italian: “Jinotega (comune)”
  • Italian: “Jinotega”
  • Japanese: “Jinotega（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “Jinotega自治体”
  • Japanese: “ヒノテガ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿನೊಟೆಗಾ, ನಿಕರಾಗುವಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿನೋಟೆಗಾ”
  • Korean: “히노테가”
  • Latin: “Jinotega”
  • Latvian: “Hinotega”
  • Lithuanian: “Chinotega”
  • Malagasy: “Jinotega”
  • Malay: “Jinotega”
  • Maltese: “Jinotega”
  • Marathi: “जिनोटेगा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Jinotega”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jinotega chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jinotega”
  • Mirandese: “Jinotega”
  • Moksha: “Хинотэга”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jinotega”
  • Polish: “Gmina Jinotega”
  • Polish: “Jinotega (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Jinotega”
  • Portuguese: “Jinotega (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Jinotega”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Jinotega”
  • Romanian: “Jinotega”
  • Russian: “Jinotega (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Jinotega”
  • Russian: “Хинотега”
  • Scots: “Jinotega”
  • Serbian: “Хинотега”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jinotega”
  • Sinhala: “ජිනොටෙගා”
  • Slovak: “Jinotega”
  • Slovenian: “Jinotega”
  • Slovenian: “San Juan de Jinotega”
  • Spanish: “Jinotega (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Jinotega”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Jinotega”
  • Spanish: “San Juan de Jinotega”
  • Swedish: “Jinotega (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Jinotega kommun”
  • Swedish: “Jinotega”
  • Tamil: “ஜினோடேகா”
  • Telugu: “జినోతెగ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโนเตกา”
  • Turkish: “Jinotega”
  • Ukrainian: “Хінотега”
  • Urdu: “خینوتیگا”
  • Venetian: “Jinotega”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Jinotega”
  • Vietnamese: “Jinotega (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Jinotega”
  • Welsh: “Jinotega”
  • “Jinotega”
  • “Municipio de Jinotega”
  • “Xiyotekah”
  • “Xiyotlan”
  • “ज़ीनोटेया”

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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 “Jinotega”. Photo: HeraldFrancisco NI, CC BY-SA 4.0.