San José de Bocay is a town and a municipality in the Jinotega department, Nicaragua.

With an area of 3,990.40 km2, the municipality of San José de Bocay was officially created on March 13, 2002, as a result of the division of the El Cuá-Bocay municipality.

As of 2006, San José de Bocay is the newest municipality in Nicaragua.

Since 1989 San José de Bocay has had a sister-city relationship with Blacksburg, Virginia.

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