Popoyo

Popoyo is a Pacific coast beach town in the department of Rivas, Nicaragua. It is known as the best, most consistent wave in Nicaragua. The wave breaks from 2 to 20 feet and at all tides.

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Popoyo

Type: Village
Description: village in Rivas Department, Nicaragua
Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude

11.473° or 11° 28′ 23″ north

Longitude

-86.1279° or 86° 7′ 40″ west

Open location code

763MFVFC+5V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11068026263

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

Wikidata ID

Q14229773

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Popoyo” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Popoyo”
French: “Popoyo”
German: “Popoyo”
Irish: “Popoyo”
Spanish: “Popoyo”
Swedish: “Popoyo”

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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 “Popoyo”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.