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Ribeira Grande Municipality
Ribeira Grande (Matriz)

Ribeira Grande

Ribeira Grande is a municipality in the northern part of the island of in the . The population in 2011 was 32,112, in an area of 180.15 km2.
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Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 12,700 residents
  • Description: municipality in Sao Miguel island, Azores, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Ribeira Grande Municipality” and “Ribeira Grande, Azores”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Igreja da Misericórdia and Ribeira Grande City Hall.

Church
Photo: Reis Quarteu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Town hall
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
The is a medieval structure constructed to house the municipal council/authority, situated in the civil parish of Matriz, municipality of Ribeira Grande, on the archipelago of the .

Church
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include São Miguel and Porto Formoso.

Photo: Apeto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the largest and most populous island of the archipelago. Portuguese for Saint Michael, the island is also known by locals as "The Green Island". Most visitors arriving in the Azores will pass through .

Village
Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.
is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the archipelago of the . The population in 2011 was 1,265, in an area of 12.79 km2. is situated 8 km east of Ribeira Grande.

Ribeira Grande

Latitude
37.82252° or 37° 49′ 21″ north
Longitude
-25.51949° or 25° 31′ 10″ west
Population
12,700
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
IATA airport code
QEG
United Nations Location Code
PT QEG
Open location code
899PRFFJ+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25270686
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3372709
Wiki­data ID
Q565312
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Ribeira Grande” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريبيرا غراندي”
  • Asturian: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Basque: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Catalan: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Cebuano: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Chinese: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Chinese: “大里貝拉”
  • Chinese: “大里贝拉”
  • Dutch: “Ribeira Grande (Azoren)”
  • Dutch: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ريبيرا جراندى”
  • French: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Galician: “Ribeira Grande, Azores”
  • Galician: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Georgian: “რიბეირა-გრანდე”
  • German: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Irish: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Italian: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Japanese: “リベイラ・グランデ”
  • Korean: “히베이라그란드”
  • Lombard: “Ribeira Grande (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Novial: “Ribeira Grande, Azores”
  • Persian: “ریبیرا گرانده”
  • Polish: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Município da Ribeira Grande”
  • Portuguese: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Romanian: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Russian: “Рибейра-Гранде”
  • Russian: “Рибейра-Гранди”
  • Slovenian: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Spanish: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Swedish: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Turkish: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Ukrainian: “Рібейра-Гранде”
  • Vietnamese: “Ribeira Grande, Açores”
  • Vietnamese: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Volapük: “Ribeira Grande”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ribeira Grande, São Miguel”
  • “Ribeira Grande”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ribeira Grande”. Photo: Luissilveira, Public domain.