Nicaragua
Northern Highlands
Nueva Segovia Department

Ocotal

Ocotal is in . It is a smallish town near a lesser used northern border crossing. It has a real frontier feel. Not much for most travelers here other than a transit point.
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  • Type: City with 46,300 residents
  • Description: municipality in Nueva Segovia Department, Nicaragua
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Ocotal”, “Municipality of Ocotal”, “Ocotal (Ciudad)”, and “Ocotal Municipality”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of the Assumption Church (Ocotal).

Church
Photo: Wilmernica, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ocotal

Latitude
13.632° or 13° 37′ 55″ north
Longitude
-86.4744° or 86° 28′ 28″ west
Population
46,300
Elevation
600 metres (1,969 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NI OCO
Open location code
765MJGJG+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 302260821
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3617448
Wiki­data ID
Q1025830
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ocotal” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكوتال”
  • Armenian: “Օկտալ”
  • Asturian: “Ocotal”
  • Basque: “Ocotal (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Ocotal”
  • Basque: “Ocotalko udalerria”
  • Belarusian: “Акаталь”
  • Bengali: “ওকোটাল”
  • Catalan: “Ocotal”
  • Cebuano: “Municipio de Ocotal”
  • Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Ocotal”
  • Cebuano: “Ocotal nga Munisipyo”
  • Cebuano: “Ocotal”
  • Chinese: “Ocotal（市镇）”
  • Chinese: “Ocotal”
  • Chinese: “Ocotal市镇”
  • Chinese: “奥科塔尔”
  • Chinese: “奧科塔爾”
  • Czech: “Ocotal”
  • Danish: “Ocotal”
  • Dutch: “Gemeente Ocotal”
  • Dutch: “Ocotal (gemeente)”
  • Dutch: “Ocotal”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اكوتال”
  • Esperanto: “Ocotal”
  • Finnish: “Ocotal”
  • French: “Municipalité de Ocotal”
  • French: “Ocotal (municipalité)”
  • French: “Ocotal”
  • Georgian: “ოკოტალი”
  • German: “Gemeinde von Ocotal”
  • German: “Ocotal (Gemeinde)”
  • German: “Ocotal”
  • Greek: “Ocotal (δήμος)”
  • Greek: “Δήμος Ocotal”
  • Greek: “Όκοταλ”
  • Gujarati: “ઓકોટલ”
  • Hindi: “ओकॉटल”
  • Hungarian: “Ocotal”
  • Indonesian: “Ocotal”
  • Irish: “Ocotal”
  • Italian: “Comune di Ocotal”
  • Italian: “Ocotal (comune)”
  • Italian: “Ocotal”
  • Japanese: “Ocotal（自治体）”
  • Japanese: “Ocotal自治体”
  • Japanese: “オコタル”
  • Kannada: “ಒಕೊಟಲ್”
  • Korean: “오코탈”
  • Latvian: “Okotala”
  • Lithuanian: “Okotalis”
  • Malay: “Ocotal”
  • Marathi: “ओकॉटल”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Ocotal”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ocotal chhiūⁿ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ocotal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ocotal”
  • Ossetian: “Окоталь”
  • Polish: “Gmina Ocotal”
  • Polish: “Ocotal (gmina)”
  • Polish: “Ocotal”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Ocotal”
  • Portuguese: “Ocotal (município)”
  • Portuguese: “Ocotal”
  • Russian: “Ocotal (муниципалитет)”
  • Russian: “Муниципалитет Ocotal”
  • Russian: “Окоталь”
  • Serbian: “Окотал (департман)”
  • Serbian: “Окотал”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ocotal”
  • Sinhala: “ඔකොටල්”
  • Slovak: “Ocotal”
  • Spanish: “Municipio de Ocotal”
  • Spanish: “Ocotal (Municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Ocotal”
  • Swedish: “Ocotal (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Ocotal kommun”
  • Swedish: “Ocotal”
  • Tamil: “ஒகோட்டால்”
  • Telugu: “వోకోటల్”
  • Thai: “โอโกตัล”
  • Turkish: “Ocotal”
  • Ukrainian: “Окоталь”
  • Urdu: “اوکوتال”
  • Veps: “Okotal‘”
  • Vietnamese: “Đô thị Ocotal”
  • Vietnamese: “Ocotal (đô thị)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ocotal”
  • Welsh: “Ocotal”
  • “Municipio de Ocotal”
  • “Ocotal”
  • “Ocotal (Municipio)”

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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 “Ocotal”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.