Valença
The Valley Region is in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the Southeast of Brazil. It is bordered by the Costa Verde and Grande Rio regions to the south, the Southern and Zona da Mata regions of Minas Gerais to the north, and the North Coast region of São Paulo to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vania Viana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 68,100 residents
- Description: municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro
- Also known as: “Valenca” and “Valença, Rio de Janeiro”
- Neighbors: Barra Mansa
Places of Interest
Highlights include Our Lady of Glory Cathedral, Valença.
Our Lady of Glory Cathedral, Valença
Church
Photo: Cid Penteado Jr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Our Lady of Glory Cathedral Also Valença Cathedral Is the name given to a religious building that is part of the Catholic Church and is located in the center of the city of Valença in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the southern part of the South American country of Brazil.
Valença
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-22.2461° or 22° 14′ 46″ southLongitude
-43.6997° or 43° 41′ 59″ westPopulation
68,100Elevation
612 metres (2,008 feet)Open location code
589RQ832+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 338515483OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6322081Wikidata ID
Q1005931
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Valença” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վալենսա”
- Basque: “Valença”
- Catalan: “Valença”
- Cebuano: “Valença”
- Chechen: “Валенса”
- Chinese: “Valença”
- Chinese: “瓦伦萨”
- Chinese: “瓦倫薩”
- Dutch: “Valença”
- Esperanto: “Valença”
- French: “Valença”
- German: “Município de Valença”
- German: “Valença”
- German: “Vila de Valença”
- Hungarian: “Valença”
- Ido: “Valença, Rio de Janeiro”
- Ido: “Valença”
- Irish: “Valença”
- Italian: “Valença”
- Japanese: “ヴァレンサ”
- Kazakh: “Valensa”
- Kazakh: “Валенса”
- Kazakh: “ۆالەنسا”
- Korean: “발렌사”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Valença”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Valença”
- Norwegian: “Valença”
- Polish: “Valença”
- Portuguese: “Valença”
- Russian: “Валенса”
- Spanish: “Valenca (Rio de Janeiro)”
- Spanish: “Valença”
- Spanish: “Valencia”
- Swedish: “Valença kommun, Rio de Janeiro”
- Swedish: “Valença”
- Tatar: “Валенса”
- Turkish: “Valença”
- Ukrainian: “Валенса”
- Volapük: “Valença”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valença, Rio de Janeiro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Valença”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Valença”. Photo: Vania Viana, CC BY-SA 3.0.