Rivas
Rivas is a city and municipality in southwestern Nicaragua on the Isthmus of the same name. The city proper is the capital of the Department of Rivas and administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 42,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Rivas Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Municipality of Rivas”, “Nicaragua”, “Rivas Municipality”, “Rivas, Nicaragua”, and “Villa of Nicaragua”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Jorge and Buenos Aires.
San Jorge
Town
Photo: Martin Kulldorff, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Jorge is a municipality on Lake Nicaragua in the Rivas department of Nicaragua.
Buenos Aires
Town
Buenos Aires is a municipality in the Rivas department of Nicaragua, located on the western shore of Lake Nicaragua.
Rivas
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Rivas Department, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.4389° or 11° 26′ 20″ northLongitude
-85.8287° or 85° 49′ 44″ westPopulation
42,400Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)IATA airport code
ECIUnited Nations Location Code
NI RVVOpen location code
763PC5QC+HGOpenStreetMap ID
node 175896610OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3617052Wikidata ID
Q1757609
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rivas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريفاس، نيكاراغوا”
- Arabic: “ريفاس”
- Asturian: “Rivas”
- Azerbaijani: “Rivas”
- Basque: “Rivas (udalerria)”
- Basque: “Rivas”
- Basque: “Rivasko udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Рывас”
- Bengali: “রিভাস”
- Catalan: “Rivas”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Rivas”
- Cebuano: “Munisipyo sa Rivas”
- Cebuano: “Rivas nga Munisipyo”
- Cebuano: “Rivas”
- Chinese: “Rivas（市镇）”
- Chinese: “Rivas”
- Chinese: “Rivas市镇”
- Chinese: “里瓦斯”
- Czech: “Rivas”
- Danish: “Rivas”
- Dutch: “Gemeente Rivas”
- Dutch: “Rivas (gemeente)”
- Dutch: “Rivas”
- Esperanto: “Rivas”
- Finnish: “Rivas”
- French: “Rivas (municipalité)”
- French: “Rivas”
- Georgian: “რივასი”
- German: “Gemeinde Rivas”
- German: “Gemeinde von Rivas”
- German: “Rivas (Gemeinde)”
- German: “Rivas”
- Greek: “Rivas (δήμος)”
- Greek: “Δήμος Rivas”
- Greek: “Ρίβας”
- Gujarati: “રિવાસ”
- Hindi: “रिवास, निकारागुआ”
- Hindi: “रिवास”
- Hungarian: “Rivas”
- Indonesian: “Rivas”
- Italian: “Comune di Rivas”
- Italian: “Rivas (comune)”
- Italian: “Rivas”
- Japanese: “Rivas（自治体）”
- Japanese: “Rivas自治体”
- Japanese: “リバス”
- Kannada: “ರಿವಾಸ್”
- Korean: “리바스”
- Latvian: “Rivasa”
- Lithuanian: “Rivasas”
- Malay: “Rivas”
- Marathi: “रिवास”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhiūⁿ Rivas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rivas chhiūⁿ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rivas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rivas”
- Norwegian: “Rivas”
- Ossetian: “Ривас”
- Persian: “ریواس، نیکاراگوئه”
- Persian: “ریواس”
- Polish: “Gmina Rivas”
- Polish: “Rivas (gmina)”
- Polish: “Rivas”
- Portuguese: “Município de Rivas”
- Portuguese: “Rivas (município)”
- Portuguese: “Rivas”
- Romanian: “Rivas, Nicaragua”
- Romanian: “Rivas”
- Russian: “Rivas (муниципалитет)”
- Russian: “Муниципалитет Rivas”
- Russian: “Ривас”
- Serbian: “Ривас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rivas”
- Silesian: “Rivas”
- Sinhala: “රිවාස්”
- Slovak: “Rivas”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Rivas”
- Spanish: “Rivas (Municipio)”
- Spanish: “Rivas”
- Swedish: “Rivas (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Rivas kommun”
- Swedish: “Rivas”
- Tamil: “ரிவாஸ்”
- Telugu: “రివాస్”
- Thai: “ริบัส”
- Turkish: “Ricas”
- Ukrainian: “Рівас”
- Urdu: “ریواز، نکاراگوا”
- Urdu: “ریواز”
- Veps: “Rivas”
- Vietnamese: “Đô thị Rivas”
- Vietnamese: “Rivas (đô thị)”
- Vietnamese: “Rivas”
- Welsh: “Rivas”
- “Kwakapolkan”
- “Kwawkapolkan”
- “Municipio de Rivas”
- “Rivas”
- “Rivas (Municipio)”
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