Matagalpa
Matagalpa is the biggest city and commercial center of the Northern Highlands of Nicaragua. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 108,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Matagalpa Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Matagalpa Municipality”, “Municipality of Matagalpa”, and “Perla del Septentrión”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Peter Cathedral, Matagalpa.
St. Peter Cathedral, Matagalpa
Church
The Cathedral of Saint Peter or simply Matagalpa Cathedral, located in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Matagalpa. It is dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle.
Matagalpa
- Categories: big city, municipality of Nicaragua, and locality
- Location: Matagalpa Department, Northern Highlands, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.9284° or 12° 55′ 42″ northLongitude
-85.9184° or 85° 55′ 6″ westPopulation
108,000Elevation
689 metres (2,260 feet)United Nations Location Code
NI MTGOpen location code
764PW3HJ+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 4663401394OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Matagalpa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماتاغلبا”
- Asturian: “Matagalpa”
- Basque: “Matagalpa (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Matagalpa”
- Basque: “Matagalpako udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Матагальпа”
- Bengali: “মাতাাগালপা”
- Catalan: “Matagalpa”
- Cebuano: “Matagalpa nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Matagalpa”
- Chinese: “Matagalpa（市镇）”
- Chinese: “Matagalpa”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “מטגלפה”
- Hindi: “मटगाल्पा”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಮಟಗಾಲ್ಪ”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Матагальпæ”
- Polish: “Gmina Matagalpa”
- Polish: “Matagalpa (gmina)”
- Polish: “Matagalpa”
- Portuguese: “Matagalpa (município)”
- Portuguese: “Matagalpa”
- Portuguese: “Município de Matagalpa”
- Russian: “Matagalpa (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Матагальпа”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Matagalpa”
- Serbian: “Матагалпа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Matagalpa”
- Sinhala: “මටගල්පා”
- Slovak: “Matagalpa”
- Spanish: “Matagalpa (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “Matagalpa”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Matagalpa”
- Spanish: “Perla del Septentrión”
- Swedish: “Matagalpa (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Matagalpa kommun”
- Swedish: “Matagalpa”
- Tamil: “மடகல்பா”
- Tatar: “Матагальпа”
- Telugu: “మాటగాల్ప”
- Thai: “มาตากัลปา”
- Turkish: “Matagalpa”
- Ukrainian: “Матагальпа”
- Urdu: “ماتاگالپا”
- Venetian: “Matagalpa”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị Matagalpa”
- Vietnamese: “Matagalpa (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Matagalpa”
- Welsh: “Matagalpa”
- “Matagalpa (Municipio)”
- “Municipio de Matagalpa”
- “Perla del Septentrión”
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