The city is located beside the Bay of its same name Bluefields; it is integrated by 17 neighborhoods including the Port of El Bluff, located on the peninsula of its same name El Bluff. This peninsula has become a true island that closes the Bay of Bluefields on the east side little by little. El Bluff has an extension of 1.29 Kms² and it is about 8 Km from Bluefields.

The municipal jurisdiction of Bluefields has several municipal headquarters and rural communities that are:

1. Santa Rosa
2. Central
3. San Mateo
4. Point Teen
5. Fátima
6. Tres Cruces
7. Ricardo Morales
8. Old Bank
9. Santa Pedro
10. Teodoro Martínez
11. 19 de Julio
12. Pancasán
13. Cotton Tree
14. New York
15. Beholdeen
16. El Canal
17. Loma Fresca

1. Cuenca Río Escondido
2. Cuenca Río Maíz
3. San Nicolás
4. La Fonseca
5. Rama Cay
6. San Luís
7. Caño Frijol
8. Tarsuani
9. Long Beach
10. Dalzuno
11. Cuenca Río Indio
12. Río Maíz
13. Guana Creek
14. Nueva Chontales
15. Neysi Ríos
16. La Palma
17. Sub-Cuenta Mahagony
18. Krisinbila
19. Sub-Cuenca Caño Negro
20. Río Kama
21. El Bluff
22. Las Mercedes
23. Monkey Point
24. El Corozo
25. Cuenca Punta Gorda
26. Caño Dalzuno
27. Hallouver
28. Villa Hermosa
29. San Ramón
30. Río Cama (El Cilicio)
31. San Brown
32. La Virgen
33. San Mariano
34. La Pichinga
35. Musulaine
36. Caño Blanco
37. Aurora (San Francisco)
38. Kukra River (Delirio)
39. Barra Punta Gorda
40. Kukra River