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.
- Type: City with 42,400 residents
- Description: municipality in Rivas Department, Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Chhiūⁿ Rivas”, “Comune di Rivas”, “Đô thị Rivas”, “Gemeente Rivas”, “Gemeinde Rivas”, “Gemeinde von Rivas”, “Gmina Rivas”, “Kwawkapolkan”, “Municipality of Rivas”, “Municipio de Rivas”, “Município de Rivas”, “Munisipyo sa Rivas”, “Rivas (comune)”, “Rivas (đô thị)”, “Rivas (gemeente)”, “Rivas (Gemeinde)”, “Rivas (gmina)”, “Rivas (kommun)”, “Rivas (municipalité)”, “Rivas (Municipio)”, “Rivas (município)”, “Rivas (udalerria)”, “Rivas (δήμος)”, “Rivas (муниципалитет)”, “Rivas chhiūⁿ”, “Rivas kommun”, “Rivas Municipality”, “Rivas nga Munisipyo”, “Rivas, Nicaragua”, “Rivas（市镇）”, “Rivas（自治体）”, “Rivasko udalerria”, “Rivas市镇”, “Rivas自治体”, “Δήμος Rivas”, “Муниципалитет Rivas”, “ريفاس، نيكاراغوا”, “ریواس، نیکاراگوئه”, and “रिवास, निकारागुआ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Jorge and Buenos Aires.
Rivas
- Categories: municipality of Nicaragua and locality
- Location: Rivas Department, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.4389° or 11° 26′ 20″ north
Longitude
-85.8287° or 85° 49′ 44″ west
Population
42,400
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
Open location code
763PC5QC+HG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rivas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريفاس”
- Asturian: “Rivas”
- Azerbaijani: “Rivas”
- Basque: “Rivas”
- Belarusian: “Рывас”
- Bengali: “রিভাস”
- Catalan: “Rivas”
- Cebuano: “Rivas”
- Chinese: “里瓦斯”
- Czech: “Rivas”
- Danish: “Rivas”
- Dutch: “Rivas”
- Esperanto: “Rivas”
- Finnish: “Rivas”
- French: “Rivas”
- Georgian: “რივასი”
- German: “Rivas”
- Greek: “Ρίβας”
- Gujarati: “રિવાસ”
- Hindi: “रिवास”
- Hungarian: “Rivas”
- Indonesian: “Rivas”
- Italian: “Rivas”
- Japanese: “リバス”
- Kannada: “ರಿವಾಸ್”
- Korean: “리바스”
- Latvian: “Rivasa”
- Lithuanian: “Rivasas”
- Malay: “Rivas”
- Marathi: “रिवास”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rivas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rivas”
- Norwegian: “Rivas”
- Ossetian: “Ривас”
- Persian: “ریواس”
- Polish: “Rivas”
- Portuguese: “Rivas”
- Romanian: “Rivas, Nicaragua”
- Romanian: “Rivas”
- Russian: “Ривас”
- Serbian: “Ривас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rivas”
- Silesian: “Rivas”
- Sinhala: “රිවාස්”
- Slovak: “Rivas”
- Spanish: “Rivas”
- Swedish: “Rivas”
- Tamil: “ரிவாஸ்”
- Telugu: “రివాస్”
- Thai: “ริบัส”
- Turkish: “Ricas”
- Ukrainian: “Рівас”
- Urdu: “ریواز، نکاراگوا”
- Urdu: “ریواز”
- Veps: “Rivas”
- Vietnamese: “Rivas”
- Welsh: “Rivas”
- “Kwakapolkan”
- “Rivas”
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