Rio San Juan Region
The Rio San Juan Region is a region in Nicaragua which borders in the south to Plains of the North, Costa Rica…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include San Carlos and Boaco.
San Carlos
San Carlos is the capital city of the municipality of San Carlos and of the Río San Juan Department of Nicaragua. The city proper has a population of roughly 17,000, while the city and surrounding communities contain a population of 52,055.
Boaco
Boaco is a mountain town in Nicaragua, some 88 km east of Managua. Sometimes called the "Two-Storey City", you'll be challenged to find flat terrains in the city.
Juigalpa
Juigalpa is the municipal seat of Juigalpa Municipality and the capital city of the Chontales Department of Nicaragua. It is located within the municipality of Juigalpa, approximately 140 km east of Managua on Carretera Rama, in the central region of Nicaragua.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Solentiname Islands and San Juan Del Norte.
Solentiname Islands
The Solentiname Islands are in Nicaragua on the southeastern corner of Lake Nicaragua. It's a remote area popular with artists that lies near the San Juan river and was historically important as a point on the Ruta del Tránsito, the most practical way to cross the American continent until the Panama Canal made it obsolete.San Juan Del Norte
San Juan de Nicaragua is a municipality located in the department of Río San Juan, in south-eastern Nicaragua. Positioned at the mouth of the San Juan River along the Caribbean Sea, it lies along the border with Costa Rica and is one of the most isolated municipalities in the country, accessible primarily by river or air.
San Miguelito
San Miguelito is a municipality in the Río San Juan department of Nicaragua. The first settlement in the area, to the east of the current location, was known as "Las Aldeas" and was founded between the years 1850 and 1855.El Castillo
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El Castillo is a town in Rio San Juan department of Nicaragua. Since 1995, the fortress has been on a "tentative list" of important Nicaraguan cultural sites with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a preliminary to nomination for consideration as a World Heritage Site.
Rio San Juan Region
- Type: department of Nicaragua with 137,000 residents
- Description: department of Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Departamento de Rio San Juan”, “Río San Juan”, and “Río San Juan Department”
- Location: Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Rio San Juan Region” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة ريو سان خوان”
- Asturian: “Departamentu de Río San Juan”
- Asturian: “Río San Juan (departamentu de Nicaragua)”
- Basque: “Río San Juango departamendua”
- Belarusian: “Дэпартамент Сан-Хуан”
- Belarusian: “Рыа-Сан-Хуан”
- Bengali: “রিও সান হুয়ান বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Departamant Río San Juan”
- Bulgarian: “Рио Сан Хуан”
- Catalan: “Departament de Río San Juan”
- Cebuano: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Chinese: “Río San Juan Koān”
- Chinese: “圣胡安河省”
- Chinese: “聖胡安河省”
- Czech: “Río San Juan”
- Danish: “Río San Juan Department”
- Dutch: “Río San Juan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريو سان خوان”
- Esperanto: “Río San Juan”
- Finnish: “Río San Juan”
- Finnish: “Río San Juanin departmentti”
- French: “Departement du Rio San Juan”
- French: “Département du Río San Juan”
- French: “Région du Río San Juan”
- French: “Río San Juan”
- Galician: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Georgian: “რიო სან ხუანის დეპარტამენტი”
- Georgian: “რიო-სან-ხუანის დეპარტამენტი”
- Georgian: “ხინოტეგას დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Departamento Río San Juan”
- German: “Region Rio San Juan”
- German: “Río San Juan”
- Greek: “Ρίο Σαν Χουάν”
- Gujarati: “રિયો સાન જુઆન વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “ריו סן חואן”
- Hindi: “रिओ सैन जुआन विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Río San Juan megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Río San Juan”
- Indonesian: “Río San Juan”
- Italian: “dipartimento di Río San Juan”
- Italian: “Dipartimento di Río San Juan”
- Italian: “Regione di Rio San Juan”
- Japanese: “リオ・サン・フアン県”
- Kannada: “ರಿಯೊ ಸ್ಯಾನ್ ಜುವಾನ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- Korean: “리오산후안주”
- Ladino: “Río San Juan”
- Latvian: “Riosanhuanas departaments”
- Lithuanian: “Rio San Chuano departamentas”
- Malay: “Pentadbiran Río San Juan”
- Marathi: “रिओ सान जुआन विभाग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Río San Juan Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Río San Juan (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Río San Juan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Río San Juan”
- Norwegian: “Río San Juan”
- Ossetian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан (департамент)”
- Ossetian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан”
- Persian: “بخش ریو سان خوان”
- Polish: “Rio San Juan”
- Polish: “Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Río San Juan”
- Portuguese: “Rio São João”
- Quechua: “Río San Juan suyu”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Rio San Juan”
- Romanian: “Departamentul Río San Juan”
- Russian: “Рио-Сан-Хуан”
- Russian: “Сан-Хуан”
- Scots: “Río San Juan Depairtment”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rio San Juan (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rio San Juan”
- Sinhala: “රියෝ සැන් ජුවන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
- Sinhala: “රියෝ සැන් ජුවාන් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නිකරගුවාව”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- Spanish: “Departamento del Río San Juan”
- Spanish: “Río San Juan”
- Swedish: “Río San Juan”
- Tamil: “ரியோ சான் ஜுவான் துறை”
- Telugu: “రియో సాన్ జువాన్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “రియో సాన్ జువాన్ విభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดริโอซานฮวน”
- Turkish: “Rio San Juan Departmanı”
- Ukrainian: “Ріо-Сан-Хуан”
- Urdu: “ریو سان خوان ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “ریو سان خوان محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Río San Juan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Río San Juan (departamento)”
- Waray (Philippines): “Río San Juan”
- “Departamento de Río San Juan”
- “Departamento del Río San Juan”
- “NI-SJ”
- “Río San Juan”
- “Río San Juan Department”
- “SJ”
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