Laguna de Apoyo
Laguna de Apoyo Nature Reserve is a nature reserve located between the departments of Masaya and Granada in Nicaragua. Lake Apoyo was declared a nature reserve in 1991 and is managed by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and comprises one of 78 protected areas of Nicaragua.Photo: Phayne, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Jesus Jimenez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Localities in the Area
Masaya
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Masaya is a small city in Nicaragua, midway between Managua and Granada.
Niquinohomo
Town
Niquinohomo is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. Niquinohomo is situated 5 km southwest of Laguna de Apoyo.
San Juan de Oriente
Town
San Juan de Oriente is a municipality in the Masaya department of Nicaragua. San Juan de Oriente is situated 3½ km southwest of Laguna de Apoyo.
Laguna de Apoyo
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: nature reserve located between the departments of Masaya and Granada in Nicaragua
- Categories: Protected areas and tourism
- Location: Capital Region, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
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Latitude
11.9298° or 11° 55' 47" northLongitude
-86.0556° or 86° 3' 20" westElevation
73 metres (240 feet)Open Location Code
763MWWHV+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 5864687705OpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3620873Wikidata ID
Q3000329Laguna de Apoyo Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Dutch: Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve
- English: Apoyo Lagoon Natural Reserve
- English: Reserva Natural Laguna de Apoyo
- Esperanto: Lageto Apojo
- Esperanto: Natura Rezervejo Lageto Apojo
- French: Réserve naturelle Laguna de Apoyo
- French: lagune d'Apoyo
- German: Apoyo
- German: Naturschutzgebiet Laguna de Apoyo
- German: Reserva Natural Laguna de Apoyo
- Indonesian: Cagar Alam Laguna Apoyo
- Italian: Laguna di Apoyo
- Lithuanian: Apojas
- Lithuanian: Apojo lagūna
- Romanian: Lacul Apoyo
- Romanian: Laguna Apoyo
- Romanian: Rezervația naturală a lagunei Apoyo
- Spanish: Laguna de Apoyo
- Spanish: Reserva Natural Laguna de Apoyo
- Spanish: Reserva natural Laguna de Apoyo
- Swedish: Laguna de Apoyo
- Apoya Lagoon
- Laguna de apoyo
- Riserva naturale della laguna di Apoyo
Other Places Named Laguna de Apoyo
In the Area
Laguna de Apoyo is situated close to the locality El Triangulo and the town Catarina.
- DiriaTown, 5 km south
- Camilo OrtegaNeighbourhood, 5 km northwest
- Reparto trasatlanticoNeighbourhood, 5 km northwest
- Segunda Entrada DiriaHamlet, 5 km south
- Empalme DiriomoHamlet, 5 km south
- Barrio Las MalvinasNeighbourhood, 6 km northwest
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Laguna de Apoyo. Photo: Phayne, CC BY-SA 4.0.