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Nicaragua · electricity network
Nicaragua power grid
OverWatts maps 776 km of Nicaragua's electricity transmission network across 50 line segments and 0 substations, the 119th most-mapped grid of 153 countries. Its backbone is high voltage (220–379 kV), carrying 776 km — 100% of the mapped length, with the highest tagged voltage at 230 kV. That works out to 6 km per 1,000 km² of land — partial OpenStreetMap coverage, ahead of 21% of mapped countries. It is connected to 2 neighbouring grids by 600 MW of existing cross-border transfer capacity, with a further 600 MW planned.
OpenStreetMap coverage
This grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn Nicaragua's network — not how much network exists. Large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone, and every kilometre here is mapped length, so the totals are a floor rather than an operator-reported figure. 0% of segments carry a real line name and 0% an operator tag.
Mapped line length by voltage
- 220–379 kV776 km 100%
50 segments · a segment is credited to the country containing its midpoint, so a border-crossing line counts once, on one side.
Cross-border links from Nicaragua
- Costa Rica300 MW
- Honduras300 MW
- Costa Rica300 MW · planned
- Honduras300 MW · planned
600 MW existing · 600 MW planned · capacities from the Global Transmission Database v0.1 (CC BY 4.0), existing as of 2023
On the interactive map
Load against the network
Where there is room to connect a new load depends on published hosting capacity, which most operators release only as their own map. OverWatts does not yet ingest those feeds, so these are the density measures the open data supports — generation and mapped demand against mapped network — not a headroom figure.
How Nicaragua compares · mapped grid by country
- 1. People's Republic of China624,300 km
- 117. Qatar812 km
- 118. Jordan782 km
- 119. Nicaragua776 km
- 120. Montenegro753 km
- 121. Burkina Faso723 km
Frequently asked
- How big is Nicaragua's transmission network?
- OverWatts maps 776 km of transmission line in Nicaragua, across 50 segments, plus 0 substations. This is mapped length from OpenStreetMap, not an operator-reported total — where OSM is incomplete the figure is a floor, never a ceiling.
- What voltage is Nicaragua's grid?
- Most of the mapped network is high voltage (220–379 kV): 776 km of 776 km. The highest voltage tagged anywhere in the country is 230 kV.
- How complete is the grid map for Nicaragua?
- Partial — 6 km of mapped line per 1,000 km² of land, ahead of 21% of the 153 countries with any mapped grid. Coverage grades how completely OpenStreetMap has drawn the network, not how much network exists; large, sparsely-populated countries score low for geographic reasons alone.
- What interconnectors connect Nicaragua to its neighbours?
- 600 MW of cross-border transfer capacity to Costa Rica, Honduras, plus 600 MW planned. Capacities are from the Global Transmission Database (v1.0, 2023).
Elsewhere in Nicaragua
Network geometry: OpenStreetMap (ODbL) © OpenStreetMap contributors, ingested and measured by OverWatts · derived 2026-07-26. Counts every mapped line of 220 kV and above; the map layer draws the ≥380 kV backbone only, so it shows less than is measured here.