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Rivas

First-level unit, Nicaragua: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-NIC-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NIC / NIStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
178,608
people (GHSL 2025)
4,798 km²
area
2.5%
of Nicaragua
10
units inside

01মানচিত্র

Inside Rivas

The 10 ADM2 units of Rivas.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Rivas
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

মানুষ · GHSL 2025

178,608

2.5% of Nicaragua.

মানুষ · WorldPop 2025

178,624

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

4,798 km²

37 people per km².

Code

NI-RI

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

নিম্ন উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল

2,039

people on land at or below 10 m, 1.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Rivas in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2020-12-31

182,645

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2012-12-31

39.8%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

56%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

10 units inside Rivas

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Altagracia (Municipio) – 24,197 23,735 1,087.16 22 13.5% 0
Belén (Municipio) – 17,556 20,259 250.67 70 9.8% 0
Buenos Aires (Municipio) – 22,589 23,773 418.18 54 12.6% 0
Cárdenas – 9,001 7,559 1,288.02 7 5% 0
Moyagalpa (Muncipio) – 11,594 10,693 250.55 46 6.5% 0
Potosí (Municipio) – 11,634 9,535 147.54 79 6.5% 0
Rivas (Municipio) – 43,819 45,876 349.37 125 24.5% 0
San Jorge (Municipio) – 954 2,080 111.23 9 0.5% 0
San Juan del Sur (Municipio) – 15,622 14,159 418.49 37 8.7% 882
Tola (Municipio) – 21,644 20,955 477.1 45 12.1% 797
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
বন্দর
None at this resolution
বিমানবন্দর
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
রেলপথ
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06ঝুঁকি

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Rivas publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Nicaragua.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08উৎস

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NIC ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NIC ADM2, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
দেশ
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.