Silves
Silves or Ilha de Silves is an island municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. It is located 10 km straight line north or about 40 km by water from the Amazon River, 200 kilometres east of Manaus.- Town with about 11,600 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (60 feet)
- …is also known as “Silves, Amazonas”
- Description: municipality of Amazonas state, Brazil
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Latitude
-2.83726° or 2° 50′ 14″ south
Longitude
-58.21052° or 58° 12′ 38″ west
UN/LOCODE
BR SIV
Open location code
68935Q7Q+3Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Silves” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սիլվիս”
- Asturian: “Silves”
- Basque: “Silves”
- Catalan: “Silves”
- Cebuano: “Silves”
- Chechen: “Силвис”
- Chinese: “西尔韦斯”
- Chinese: “西爾韋斯”
- Dutch: “Silves”
- Esperanto: “Silves”
- French: “Silves”
- German: “Silves”
- Hindi: “सिलवेस, आमेज़ोनास”
- Hindi: “सिलवेस”
- Hungarian: “Silves”
- Irish: “Silves”
- Italian: “Silves”
- Kazakh: “Силвис”
- Malagasy: “Silves”
- Mazanderani: “سیلوس (آمازوناس)”
- Mazanderani: “سیلوس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Silves”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silves”
- Norwegian: “Silves”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Silves”
- Persian: “سیلوس، آمازوناس”
- Persian: “سیلوس”
- Polish: “Silves”
- Portuguese: “Silves”
- Romanian: “Silves, Amazonas”
- Romanian: “Silves”
- Russian: “Силвис”
- Scots: “Silves, Amazonas”
- Scots: “Silves”
- Spanish: “Silves”
- Swedish: “Silves”
- Tatar: “Силвис”
- Turkish: “Silves”
- Urdu: “سیلویش، امازوناس”
- Uzbek: “Silves”
- Volapük: “Silves”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silves, Amazonas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Silves”
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Highlights include Rampa de balsa and Silves.
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