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Rivas Department
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department in southwestern Nicaragua with a long coastline on the Pacific Ocean
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Rivas Department is referenced by 121 other articles, and connects out to South America, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm1st.
It sits within the topics Costa Rica–Nicaragua border crossings, Departments of Nicaragua and Rivas Department.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Capital
- Rivas
- Department
- 2,162 km (835 sq mi)
- Density
- 84.93/km (220.0/sq mi)
- Urban
- 91,899
- Iso 3166 2
- NI-RI
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- department of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Nicaragua
- Contains
- Tola
- Capital
- Rivas
- Population
- 156283
- Area
- 2162
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Shares border with
- Alajuela Province
- Image
- OmetepeView 08.jpg
- Licence plate code
- RI
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- Commons category
- Rivas Department
- different from
- Rivas
- topic's main category
- Category:Rivas Department
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Rivas Department
- inception
- 1858-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Rivas ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈriβas]) is a department of the Republic of Nicaragua. It covers an area of 2,162 km (835 sq mi) and has a population of 183,611 (2021 estimate). The department's capital is the city of Rivas. The indigenous inhabitants of Rivas are the Nicarao, and was the location of the pre-Columbian Nahua chiefdoms of Kwawkapolkan and Kakawatan.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rivas Department” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.