Matagalpa

Matagalpa is the biggest city and commercial center of the of . With its temperate climate, it is a good base for mountain hiking, tours of coffee farms, visits to indigenous villages, or bird watching in the area.
  • City with 108,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 689 metres (2,260 feet)
  • Description: municipality in Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as
    “Matagalpa Municipality”
    “Municipality of Matagalpa”
    “Perla del Septentrión”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Peter Cathedral.

Church
The Cathedral of Saint Peter or simply Matagalpa…

Matagalpa

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Latitude
12.9284° or 12° 55′ 42″ north
Longitude
-85.9184° or 85° 55′ 6″ west
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Open location code
764PW3HJ+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Matagalpa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ማታጋልፓ”
  • Arabic: “ماتاجالبا”
  • Arabic: “ماتاغلبا”
  • Asturian: “Matagalpa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Matagalpa”
  • Basque: “Matagalpa (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Matagalpa”
  • Basque: “Matagalpako udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Матагальпа”
  • Bengali: “মাতাাগালপা”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাটাগালপা”
  • Catalan: “Matagalpa”
  • Cebuano: “Matagalpa nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Matagalpa”
  • Chinese: “Matagalpa(市镇)”
  • Chinese: “Matagalpa市镇”
  • Chinese: “馬塔加爾帕”
  • Croatian: “Matagalpa”
  • Czech: “Matagalpa”
  • Danish: “Matagalpa”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Matagalpa”
  • Dutch: “Matagalpa (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Matagalpa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتاجلبا”
  • Esperanto: “Matagalpo”
  • Finnish: “Matagalpa”
  • French: “Matagalpa (municipalité)”
  • French: “Matagalpa”
  • French: “Municipalité de Matagalpa”
  • Georgian: “მატაგალპა”
  • German: “Gemeinde Matagalpa”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Matagalpa”
  • German: “Matagalpa (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Matagalpa”
  • German: “Perla del Septentrión”
  • Greek: “Matagalpa (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Matagalpa”
  • Greek: “Ματαγάλπα”
  • Gujarati: “મટાગાલ્પા”
  • Hausa: “Matagalpa”
  • Hebrew: “מטגלפה”
  • Hindi: “मटगाल्पा”
  • Hindi: “मातागल्पा”
  • Indonesian: “Matagalpa”
  • Irish: “Matagalpa”
  • Italian: “Comune di Matagalpa”
  • Italian: “Matagalpa (comune)”
  • Italian: “Matagalpa”
  • Japanese: “Matagalpa(自治体)”
  • Japanese: “Matagalpa自治体”
  • Japanese: “マタガルパ”
  • Javanese: “Matagalpa”
  • Kannada: “ಮಟಗಾಲ್ಪ”
  • Kazakh: “Матагальпа”
  • Kirghiz: “Матагальпа”
  • Korean: “마타갈파”
  • Latvian: “Matagalpa”
  • Lithuanian: “Matagalpa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Matagalpa”
  • Malay: “Matagalpa”
  • Marathi: “मादाग्लाप”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Matagalpa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matagalpa (Nicaragua)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matagalpa chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matagalpa”
  • Moksha: “Матагальпа”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matagalpa”
  • Oromo: “Matagalpa”
  • Ossetian: “Матагальпæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਤਾਗਲਪਾ”
  • Persian: “ماتاگالپا”
  • Polish: “Gmina Matagalpa”
  • Polish: “Matagalpa (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Matagalpa”
  • Portuguese: “Matagalpa (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Matagalpa”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Matagalpa”
  • Pushto: “ماتاګالپا”
  • Russian: “Matagalpa (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Матагальпа”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Matagalpa”
  • Serbian: “Матагалпа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Matagalpa”
  • Sinhala: “මටගල්පා”
  • Slovak: “Matagalpa”
  • Somali: “Matagalpa”
  • Spanish: “Matagalpa (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Matagalpa”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Matagalpa”
  • Spanish: “Perla del Septentrión”
  • Swahili: “Matagalpa”
  • Swedish: “Matagalpa (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Matagalpa kommun”
  • Swedish: “Matagalpa”
  • Tajik: “Матагальпа”
  • Tamil: “மடகல்பா”
  • Tatar: “Матагальпа”
  • Telugu: “మాటగాల్ప”
  • Thai: “มาตากัลปา”
  • Turkish: “Matagalpa”
  • Ukrainian: “Матагальпа”
  • Urdu: “ماتاگالپا”
  • Uzbek: “Matagalpa”
  • Venetian: “Matagalpa”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Matagalpa”
  • Vietnamese: “Matagalpa (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Matagalpa”
  • Welsh: “Matagalpa”

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