Chontales Department

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Chontales Department is an administrative region in central Nicaragua known for its cattle ranching, agricultural production, and proximity to Lake Nicaragua.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chontales Department canonical 3
Departamento de Chontales 1

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Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf department of Nicaragua
administrativeDivisionOf Nicaragua
borderedBy Boaco Department NERFINISHED
Carazo Department NERFINISHED
Granada Department
Lake Nicaragua
Masaya Department
Río San Juan Department NERFINISHED
capital Juigalpa
country Nicaragua
economyBasedOn crop farming
livestock
hasCoastlineOn Lake Nicaragua
hasGeographicFeature pasturelands
proximity to Lake Nicaragua
rolling hills
hasMunicipality Acoyapa
Comalapa
El Coral
Juigalpa
La Libertad
San Francisco de Cuapa
San Pedro de Lóvago
Santo Domingo
Santo Tomás
Santo Tomás de Castillo
Villa Sandino
hasNaturalResource fertile agricultural land
knownFor agricultural production
cattle ranching
dairy production
locatedIn western Nicaragua
surface form: Central Nicaragua
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
surface form: Central Standard Time
locatedOnContinent North America
officialLanguage Spanish
partOf Pacific and central regions of Nicaragua
UTCOffset −06:00

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gran Lago borderedByDepartment Chontales Department
Juigalpa locatedIn Chontales Department
Juigalpa capitalOf Chontales Department
Department of Chontales officialName Chontales Department
this entity surface form: Departamento de Chontales