Masaya

Masaya is a small city in , midway between and . The town sits perilously close to the Volcan Masaya, an active volcano with constant plumes of sulfuric smoke. The volcano is the main feature of a national park.
  • Type: City with 132,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Masaya Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Chhiūⁿ Masaya”, “Comun ëd Masaya”, “Comuna Masaya”, “Comune di Masaya”, “Concello de Masaya”, “Đô thị Masaya”, “Gemeente Masaya”, “Gemeinde Masaya”, “Gemeinde von Masaya”, “Gemeng Masaya”, “Gmina Masaya”, “Gmoa Masaya”, “Kaunsil Masaya”, “Kommunen Masaya”, “Komunio di Masaya”, “Kumun Masaya”, “Masaya (comune)”, “Masaya (đô thị)”, “Masaya (gemeente)”, “Masaya (Gemeinde)”, “Masaya (gmina)”, “Masaya (kommun)”, “Masaya (Municipio)”, “Masaya (município)”, “Masaya (udalerria)”, “Masaya (δήμος)”, “Masaya (муниципалитет)”, “Masaya Belediyesi”, “Masaya chhiūⁿ”, “Masaya kommun”, “Masaya község”, “Masaya Municipality”, “Masaya munitsipaliteti”, “Masaya nga Munisipyo”, “Masaya pašvaldība”, “Masaya savivaldybė”, “Masaya vald”, “Masaya(市镇)”, “Masaya(自治体)”, “Masayako udalerria”, “Masaya市镇”, “Masaya自治体”, “Mazātlān”, “Muni o Masaya”, “Muniċipalità ta’ Masaya”, “Municipalité de Masaya”, “Municipality a Masaya”, “Municipality of Masaya”, “Município de Masaya”, “Municipo de Masaya”, “Munisipalitas Masaya”, “Munisipio di Masaya”, “Munisipyo han Masaya”, “Munisipyo sa Masaya”, “Munisipyu Masaya”, “Občina Masaya”, “Obec Masaya”, “Općina Masaya”, “Opština Masaya”, “Perbandaran Masaya”, “Thành phố tự quản Masaya”, “Δήμος Masaya”, “Δήμος Μασάγια”, “Масайя”, “Муниципалитет Masaya”, “Муниципалитет Масая”, “მუნიციპალიტეტი მასაია”, “Համայնք Մասայա”, “מועצה מסאיה”, “بلدية ماسايا”, “नगरपालिका मसाया”, “નગરપાલિકા માસાયા”, “நகராட்சி மசாயா”, “మున్సిపాలిటీ మసాయా”, “ಪುರಸಭೆ ಮಸಾಯಾ”, “නගර සභාව මසායා”, “เทศบาล มาซายา”, “མུ་ནི་སི་པལ་ལི་ཏི མ་ས་ཡ།”, “마사야 지방자치단체”, “マサヤ自治体”, “馬薩亞市鎮”, and “马萨亚市镇”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Our Lady of the Assumption Church and Fortaleza El Coyotepe.

Church

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nindirí.

Town
is a town and a municipality in the Masaya department of .

Masaya

Latitude
11.974° or 11° 58′ 26″ north
Longitude
-86.096° or 86° 5′ 46″ west
Population
132,000
Elevation
234 metres (768 feet)
Open location code
763MXWF3+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Masaya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماسايا”
  • Arabic: “مسايا”
  • Armenian: “Մասայա”
  • Asturian: “Masaya”
  • Balinese: “Masaya”
  • Basque: “Masaya”
  • Bavarian: “Masaya”
  • Belarusian: “Масая”
  • Bengali: “মাসায়া”
  • Breton: “Masaya”
  • Bulgarian: “Масая”
  • Catalan: “Masaya”
  • Cebuano: “Masaya”
  • Chechen: “Масая”
  • Chinese: “馬薩亞”
  • Chinese: “马萨亚”
  • Croatian: “Masaya”
  • Czech: “Masaya”
  • Danish: “Masaya”
  • Dutch: “Masaya”
  • Dzongkha: “མ་ས་ཡ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسايا”
  • Esperanto: “Masaya”
  • Estonian: “Masaya”
  • Finnish: “Masaya”
  • French: “Masaya”
  • Georgian: “მასაია”
  • German: “Masaya”
  • Greek: “Μασάγια”
  • Gujarati: “માસાયા”
  • Haitian: “Masaya”
  • Hebrew: “מסאיה”
  • Hindi: “मसाया”
  • Hungarian: “Masaya”
  • Ido: “Masaya”
  • Indonesian: “Masaya”
  • Irish: “Masaya”
  • Italian: “Masaya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Masaya”
  • Japanese: “マサヤ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸಾಯಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Масая”
  • Korean: “마사야”
  • Latvian: “Masaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Masaja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Masaya”
  • Macedonian: “Масая”
  • Malay: “Masaya”
  • Marathi: “मसाया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya”
  • Mongolian: “Масая”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian: “Masaya”
  • Ossetian: “Масая”
  • Papiamento: “Masaya”
  • Persian: “ماسايا”
  • Piemontese: “Masaya”
  • Polish: “Masaya”
  • Portuguese: “Masaya”
  • Romanian: “Masaya”
  • Russian: “Масая”
  • Scots: “Masaya”
  • Serbian: “Masaya”
  • Serbian: “Масаја”
  • Serbian: “Масая”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masaya”
  • Silesian: “Masaya”
  • Sinhala: “මසායා”
  • Slovak: “Masaya”
  • Slovenian: “Masaya”
  • Spanish: “Masaya”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Masaya”
  • Swedish: “Masaya”
  • Tamil: “மசாயா”
  • Tatar: “Масая”
  • Telugu: “మసాయా”
  • Thai: “มาซายา”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ས་ཡ།”
  • Turkish: “Masaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Масая”
  • Urdu: “ماسایا”
  • Uzbek: “Masaya”
  • Venetian: “Masaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Masaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Masaya”
  • Welsh: “Masaya”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماسايا”
  • “Masaya”

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