Barbacena
Barbacena is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2022 Census, the municipality had 125,317 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is 788 km2.- Type: City with 125,000 residents
- Description: municipality of Minas Gerais state, Brazil
- Also known as: “‘Cidade dos loucos’”, “Barbacena (minas gerais)”, “Barbacena (Minas Gerais)”, “Barbacena, Minas Gerais”, “Cidade das Rosas”, “Cidade das Rosas | Cidade na Serra da Mantiqueira”, “Cidade na Serra da Mantiqueira”, “City from Serra da Mantiqueira | City of Roses”, “Freguesia de Nossa Senhora da Piedade”, “Барбасена да Раинга”, and “バルバセナ”
- Neighbors: Santos Dumont and São João del Rei
Places of Interest
Highlights: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte and Basílica de São José Operário building.
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte
Church
Barbacena
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: Minas Gerais, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-21.2255° or 21° 13′ 32″ south
Longitude
-43.7735° or 43° 46′ 25″ west
Population
125,000
Elevation
1,150 metres (3,773 feet)
Open location code
58CRQ6FG+RH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Barbacena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بارباسينا”
- Armenian: “Բարբասենա”
- Asturian: “Barbacena”
- Basque: “Barbacena”
- Belarusian: “Барбасена”
- Bengali: “বার্বাসেনা”
- Bishnupriya: “বার্বাসেনা”
- Catalan: “Barbacena”
- Cebuano: “Barbacena”
- Chechen: “Барбасена”
- Chinese: “巴巴塞纳”
- Danish: “Barbacena”
- Dutch: “Barbacena”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارباسينا”
- Esperanto: “Barbacena”
- Finnish: “Barbacena”
- French: “Barbacena”
- Georgian: “ბარბასენა”
- German: “Barbacena”
- Greek: “Μπαρμπακένα”
- Gujarati: “બાર્બસેના”
- Hindi: “बरबसेना”
- Hungarian: “Barbacena”
- Indonesian: “Barbacena”
- Irish: “Barbacena”
- Italian: “Barbacena”
- Japanese: “バルバセーナ”
- Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಬಿಸೆನಾ”
- Kazakh: “Барбасена”
- Korean: “바르바세나”
- Latvian: “Barbasena”
- Lithuanian: “Barbasena”
- Malagasy: “Barbacena”
- Malay: “Barbacena”
- Marathi: “बार्बसेना”
- Mazanderani: “بارباسنا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barbacena”
- Mirandese: “Barbacena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbacena”
- Norwegian: “Barbacena”
- Persian: “بارباسنا”
- Polish: “Barbacena”
- Portuguese: “Barbacena”
- Romanian: “Barbacena”
- Russian: “Барбасена”
- Sinhala: “බර්බසිනා”
- Spanish: “Barbacena”
- Swedish: “Barbacena”
- Tamil: “பார்பாசெனா”
- Tatar: “Барбасена”
- Telugu: “బార్బసేన”
- Thai: “บาร์บาเซนา”
- Turkish: “Barbacena”
- Ukrainian: “Барбасена”
- Urdu: “بارباکینا”
- Venetian: “Barbacena”
- Vietnamese: “Barbacena”
- Volapük: “Barbacena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barbacena”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Centro and São Geraldo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Praça dos Andradas and Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Piedade.
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