Ocotal
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Place details
- Locality
- Ocotal
- Region
- Nueva Segovia
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Population
- 33,928
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ocotal
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.other_name
- La Sultana del Norte
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ocotal 1.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Downtown Ocotal
- Settlement.image_seal
- Seal of Ocotal.svg
- Settlement.seal_size
- 65px
- Settlement.image_map
- Nueva Segovia Department with Ocotal highlighted.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 220
- Settlement.map_caption
- Ocotal in Nueva Segovia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Nicaragua
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
Key dates
- Inception
- 1780
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Nicaragua
- Country
- Nicaragua
- Located in
- Nueva Segovia Department
- Population
- +34580
- Area
- +85.23
- Elevation
- +611
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Nueva Segovia Department
- Official website
- www.alcaldiaocotal.gob.ni
- Image
- Templo Parroquial de Ocotal.jpg
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Ocotal () is the capital of the Nueva Segovia Department in Nicaragua, Central America and the municipal seat of Ocotal Municipality.
==History== The region occupied by the city of Ocotal was formerly occupied by different ethnic groups that had probably migrated from Mexico to Central America many centuries ago, speaking a variety of Nahuatl.