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Leon

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

Map All 17 first-level units
Page GRX-NIC-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NIC / NIStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
381,247
people (GHSL 2025)
5,515 km²
area
5.4%
of Nicaragua
10
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Leon

The 10 ADM2 units of Leon.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Leon
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

381,247

5.4% of Nicaragua.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

423,234

+11% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

5,515 km²

69 people per km².

Code

NI-LE

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

3,749

people on land at or below 10 m, 1.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Leon 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

421,050

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

Poverty headcount · 2012-12-31

9%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

145%

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

04Units

10 units inside Leon

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
El Jicaral (Municipio) – 11,711 11,442 472.49 25 3.1% 0
La Paz Centro (Municipio) – 28,756 32,670 965.46 30 7.5% 37
Municipio Achuapa – 14,402 14,634 392.06 37 3.8% 0
Municipio El Sauce – 30,430 31,777 700.24 43 8% 0
Municipio Larreynaga – 27,753 33,941 746.33 37 7.3% 0
Municipio León – 193,702 214,756 817.32 237 50.8% 2,625
Municipio Santa Rosa del Peñón – 8,550 9,166 228.27 37 2.2% 0
Municipio Telica – 26,072 28,651 394.33 66 6.8% 0
Nagarote (Municipio) – 31,946 35,960 712.52 45 8.4% 1,023
Quezalguaque (Municipio) – 7,925 10,236 85.88 92 2.1% 0
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
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

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.
Nchi
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.

Hali

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Avis en français

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