Nicaragua
Capital Region
Masaya Department

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.
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  • Type: City with 132,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in Masaya Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Masaya Municipality”, “Mazātlān”, and “Municipality of Masaya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roberto Clemente Stadium (Masaya) and Our Lady of the Assumption Church.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Church
Photo: Byralaal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: AxeEffect, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nindirí.

Town
is a town and a municipality in the Masaya department of . In 2022 the population was 61,816 in the municipality, and 29,566 in the town.

Masaya

Latitude
11.9736° or 11° 58′ 25″ north
Longitude
-86.0961° or 86° 5′ 46″ west
Population
132,000
Elevation
234 metres (768 feet)
Open location code
763MXWF3+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 784918974
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3617720
Wiki­data ID
Q1001914
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Masaya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلدية ماسايا”
  • Arabic: “ماسايا”
  • Arabic: “مسايا”
  • Armenian: “Համայնք Մասայա”
  • Armenian: “Մասայա”
  • Asturian: “Masaya”
  • Aymara: “Munisipyu Masaya”
  • Balinese: “Masaya”
  • Balinese: “Munisipalitas Masaya”
  • Basque: “Masaya (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Masaya”
  • Basque: “Masayako udalerria”
  • Bavarian: “Gmoa Masaya”
  • Bavarian: “Masaya”
  • Belarusian: “Масая”
  • Belarusian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Bengali: “মাসায়া”
  • Breton: “Kumun Masaya”
  • Breton: “Masaya”
  • Bulgarian: “Масая”
  • Bulgarian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Catalan: “Masaya”
  • Cebuano: “Masaya nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Masaya”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Masaya”
  • Chechen: “Масая”
  • Chechen: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Chinese: “Masaya（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “Masaya”
  • Chinese: “Masaya市镇”
  • Chinese: “馬薩亞”
  • Chinese: “馬薩亞市鎮”
  • Chinese: “马萨亚”
  • Chinese: “马萨亚市镇”
  • Croatian: “Masaya”
  • Czech: “Masaya”
  • Czech: “Obec Masaya”
  • Danish: “Masaya”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Masaya”
  • Dutch: “Masaya (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Masaya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسايا”
  • Esperanto: “Masaya”
  • Esperanto: “Municipo de Masaya”
  • Estonian: “Masaya vald”
  • Estonian: “Masaya”
  • Finnish: “Masaya”
  • French: “Masaya”
  • French: “Municipalité de Masaya”
  • Galician: “Concello de Masaya”
  • Georgian: “მასაია”
  • Georgian: “მუნიციპალიტეტი მასაია”
  • German: “Gemeinde Masaya”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Masaya”
  • German: “Masaya (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Masaya”
  • Greek: “Masaya (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Masaya”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Μασάγια”
  • Greek: “Μασάγια”
  • Gujarati: “નગરપાલિકા માસાયા”
  • Gujarati: “માસાયા”
  • Haitian: “Masaya”
  • Hebrew: “מועצה מסאיה”
  • Hebrew: “מסאיה”
  • Hindi: “नगरपालिका मसाया”
  • Hindi: “मसाया”
  • Hungarian: “Masaya község”
  • Hungarian: “Masaya”
  • Ido: “Komunio di Masaya”
  • Ido: “Masaya”
  • Indonesian: “Masaya”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Masaya”
  • Irish: “Masaya”
  • Italian: “Comune di Masaya”
  • Italian: “Masaya (comune)”
  • Italian: “Masaya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Masaya”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Municipality a Masaya”
  • Japanese: “Masaya（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “Masaya自治体”
  • Japanese: “マサヤ”
  • Japanese: “マサヤ自治体”
  • Kannada: “ಪುರಸಭೆ ಮಸಾಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸಾಯಾ”
  • Kirghiz: “Масая”
  • Korean: “마사야 지방자치단체”
  • Korean: “마사야”
  • Latvian: “Masaja”
  • Latvian: “Masaya pašvaldība”
  • Lithuanian: “Masaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Masaya savivaldybė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gemeng Masaya”
  • Luxembourgish: “Masaya”
  • Macedonian: “Масая”
  • Malay: “Masaya”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Masaya”
  • Maltese: “Muniċipalità ta’ Masaya”
  • Marathi: “मसाया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Masaya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Masaya”
  • Mongolian: “Масая”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بلدية ماسايا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kommunen Masaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Masaya”
  • Norwegian: “Masaya”
  • Ossetian: “Масая”
  • Papiamento: “Masaya”
  • Papiamento: “Munisipio di Masaya”
  • Persian: “بلدية ماسايا”
  • Persian: “ماسايا”
  • Piemontese: “Comun ëd Masaya”
  • Piemontese: “Masaya”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kaunsil Masaya”
  • Polish: “Gmina Masaya”
  • Polish: “Masaya (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Masaya”
  • Portuguese: “Masaya (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Masaya”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Masaya”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Masaya”
  • Romanian: “Masaya”
  • Russian: “Masaya (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Масая”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Masaya”
  • Scots: “Masaya”
  • Scots: “Muni o Masaya”
  • Serbian: “Masaya”
  • Serbian: “Opština Masaya”
  • Serbian: “Масаја”
  • Serbian: “Масая”
  • Serbian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Masaya”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Općina Masaya”
  • Silesian: “Masaya”
  • Sinhala: “නගර සභාව මසායා”
  • Sinhala: “මසායා”
  • Slovak: “Masaya”
  • Slovak: “Obec Masaya”
  • Slovenian: “Masaya”
  • Slovenian: “Občina Masaya”
  • Spanish: “Masaya (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Masaya”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Masaya”
  • Swedish: “Kommunen Masaya”
  • Swedish: “Masaya (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Masaya kommun”
  • Swedish: “Masaya”
  • Tamil: “நகராட்சி மசாயா”
  • Tamil: “மசாயா”
  • Tatar: “Масая”
  • Tatar: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Telugu: “మసాయా”
  • Telugu: “మున్సిపాలిటీ మసాయా”
  • Thai: “เทศบาล มาซายา”
  • Thai: “มาซายา”
  • Tibetan: “མ་ས་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “མུ་ནི་སི་པལ་ལི་ཏི མ་ས་ཡ།”
  • Turkish: “Masaya Belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Masaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Масайя”
  • Ukrainian: “Масая”
  • Ukrainian: “Муниципалитет Масая”
  • Urdu: “ماسایا”
  • Uzbek: “Masaya munitsipaliteti”
  • Uzbek: “Masaya”
  • Venetian: “Masaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Masaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Masaya (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Masaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố tự quản Masaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Masaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Munisipyo han Masaya”
  • Welsh: “Masaya”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماسايا”
  • “Masaya”
  • “Masaya (Municipio)”
  • “Municipio de Masaya”

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