Ticuantepe
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Ticuantepe is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua with an estimated population of 39,012. The municipality is likely named after the Nahua chiefdom of Tekwantepek which was located in the Managua department. According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Tekwantepek was a militarily strong chiefdom that was one of the last to fall to the conquistadors and their central-Mexican allies. The chiefdom's name is a combination of the Nawat words tēkwani (jaguar), and tepek (hill), therefore the translation of Tekwantepek is "hill of
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ticuantepe
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Nicaragua
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- left
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
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- Location in Nicaragua
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- Country
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- Department
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- Managua
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- Imperial
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 60.8
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- 2022 estimate
- Settlement.population_total
- 39012
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_urban
- 18070
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Managua Department
- Population
- 27008
- Area
- 60.79
- Elevation
- 302
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
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- postal code
- 16300
- Commons category
- Ticuantepe
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Encyclopedic overview
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Ticuantepe is a town and a municipality in the Managua department of Nicaragua with an estimated population of 39,012. The municipality is likely named after the Nahua chiefdom of Tekwantepek which was located in the Managua department. According to Spanish conquistador and historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Tekwantepek was a militarily strong chiefdom that was one of the last to fall to the conquistadors and their central-Mexican allies. The chiefdom's name is a combination of the Nawat words tēkwani (jaguar), and tepek (hill), therefore the translation of Tekwantepek is "hill of jaguars" or "jaguar hill".
==Etymology== Ticuantepe comes from the Nahuatl language of the first inhabitants of Nicaragua. Ticuane, which means fierce or tiger, and tepeh, which means hill, are combined to make Ticuantepe ("Hill of the Fierce").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ticuantepe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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