Chaves

Chaves is a beautiful city of 41,000 people in and one of the most historical cities in . Chaves is a town and seat of municipality in the far North of Portugal, 10 km south of the Spanish border and 22 km south of Verín, Spain.
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  • Type: City with 22,400 residents
  • Description: municipality in Portugal
  • Also known as: “Aquae Flaviae”, “Chaves (Portugal)”, “Chaves Municipality”, “Chaves, Portugal”, “Município de Chaves”, “Šaviš”, and “シャベシュ”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira and Fort São Francisco of Chaves.

Stadium
Photo: Dario Alvarez, CC BY 2.0.
The Estádio Municipal Eng.

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The Fort Nossa Senhora do Rosário, better known…

Museum
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is a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madalena and Eiras.

Village
Photo: Carlos Botelho, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, FAL.
is a village.

Village
Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez, CC BY 2.0.
is a village.

Chaves

Latitude
41.7399° or 41° 44′ 24″ north
Longitude
-7.4715° or 7° 28′ 18″ west
Population
22,400
Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)
IATA airport code
CHV
UN/LOCODE
PT CHV
Open location code
8CHJPGQH+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25624127
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2740761
Wiki­data ID
Q504580
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Chaves” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشافيس”
  • Arabic: “شافيس”
  • Armenian: “Շավեշ”
  • Asturian: “Chaves”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şaveş”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şaviş”
  • Basque: “Chaves”
  • Belarusian: “Шавіш”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাভেস”
  • Breton: “Chaves”
  • Catalan: “Chaves”
  • Cebuano: “Chaves”
  • Chechen: “Шавиш”
  • Chinese: “沙维什”
  • Croatian: “Chaves”
  • Czech: “Chaves”
  • Danish: “Chaves”
  • Dutch: “Chaves”
  • Esperanto: “Chaves”
  • French: “Chaves”
  • Galician: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Chaves”
  • Georgian: “შავეში”
  • Georgian: “შავიში”
  • German: “Chaves”
  • Hebrew: “שאבס”
  • Indonesian: “Chaves”
  • Irish: “Chaves”
  • Italian: “Chaves”
  • Japanese: “シャーヴェス”
  • Korean: “샤베스”
  • Lithuanian: “Šavesas”
  • Lombard: “Chaves (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Chaves”
  • Macedonian: “Шавес”
  • Mazanderani: “شاوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chaves”
  • Mirandese: “Chabes”
  • Mirandese: “Chaves”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaves”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chaves”
  • Persian: “شاوس”
  • Persian: “شاوش”
  • Polish: “Chaves”
  • Portuguese: “Chaves”
  • Romanian: “Chaves”
  • Russian: “Шавиш”
  • Serbian: “Šaves”
  • Serbian: “Шавес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves”
  • Slovak: “Chaves”
  • Slovenian: “Chaves”
  • Spanish: “Chaves”
  • Swedish: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Swedish: “Chaves”
  • Tatar: “Шавиш”
  • Turkish: “Chaves, Alto Trás-os-Montes”
  • Turkish: “Chaves”
  • Ukrainian: “Шавеш”
  • Urdu: “شاویز، پرتگال”
  • Vietnamese: “Chaves, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Chaves”
  • Volapük: “Chaves”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaves (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaves, Portugal”
  • “Chaves”

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