Nav aids

Hoyo Soplador light in Nicaragua is established, flashing white every 15 sec, 20 meters high, visible 12 miles at 12-28.85N 081-43.83W.

Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 466/25

What this record establishes

Listed in force

The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2025-04-25 10:29Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-10-01 05:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 12.481, -81.731. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Caribbean Sea →

issued: 2025-04-25 10:29Z
status: Listed in force
NAVAREA: NAVAREA IV
sea: Caribbean Sea
position: 12.481, -81.731
nearest port: Bluefields · 122 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

WESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA.
NICARAGUA.
HOYO SOPLADOR LIGHT, FL W 15 SEC 20 METERS
12 MILES, ESTABLISHED IN 12-28.85N 081-43.83W.

Reading this warning

Light characteristic: The coded description of a light — FL W 10 SEC 8 METERS 8 MILES — giving its rhythm, colour, period, height and range.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.

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Conditions at the position · now

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MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

48 within 180 nm since 2006 · 1 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Isla cayos de serrana light 14-17.12N 080-21.99W unlit2026-09-29
Quita sueno bank light in 14-28.90N 081-07.32W changed to fl (2) w 6 sec 18 meters 12 miles2024-07-03
Cayo roncador light 13-34.41N 080-05.51W unlit2024-04-17
Quita sueno bank light in 14-28.90N 081-07.32W unlit2024-02-15
RACON at cayo cordoba lighthouse 12-33.0N 081-41.3W discontinued2023-11-03
Cove rojo lighthouse 12-30.95N 081-43.77W unlit2023-10-19

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

Cayo roncador light 13-34.41N 080-05.51W unlitNav aids · 116.2 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 05:03Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.