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Vila Real District

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: “Chaves, Portugal”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio Municipal Eng. Manuel Branco Teixeira and Termas Medicinais Romanas de Chaves.

Stadium
Photo: Dario Alvarez, CC BY 2.0.
The is a multi-use stadium in Chaves, Portugal. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of GD Chaves.

Museum
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is a museum.

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The Fort Nossa Senhora do Rosário, better known as Forte São Francisco of Chaves is located in the city of Chaves, in the Parish of Santa Maria Maior, District of Vila Real, in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madalena and Outeiro Seco.

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

Village
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is a village.

Village
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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
United Nations Location Code
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: “Şaviş”
  • Basque: “Chaves”
  • Belarusian: “Шавеш”
  • Belarusian: “Шавіш”
  • Bishnupriya: “চাভেস”
  • Breton: “Chaves”
  • Catalan: “Chaves”
  • Cebuano: “Chaves”
  • Chechen: “Шавиш”
  • Chinese: “Chaves”
  • Chinese: “沙维什”
  • Croatian: “Chaves”
  • Czech: “Chaves”
  • Danish: “Chaves”
  • Dutch: “Chaves (Portugal)”
  • Dutch: “Chaves”
  • Esperanto: “Chaves”
  • French: “Chaves”
  • Galician: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Galician: “Chaves”
  • Georgian: “შავეში”
  • Georgian: “შავიში”
  • German: “Chaves”
  • Hebrew: “שאבס”
  • Indonesian: “Chaves”
  • Irish: “Chaves”
  • Italian: “Aquae Flaviae”
  • Italian: “Chaves”
  • Japanese: “シャーヴェス”
  • Japanese: “シャベシュ”
  • Korean: “샤베스”
  • Lithuanian: “Šavesas”
  • Lombard: “Chaves (Portogall)”
  • Lombard: “Chaves”
  • Macedonian: “Шавес”
  • Macedonian: “Шавеш”
  • Mazanderani: “شاوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chaves”
  • Mirandese: “Chabes”
  • Mirandese: “Chaves”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaves”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chaves”
  • Persian: “شاوس”
  • Persian: “شاوش”
  • Polish: “Chaves”
  • Portuguese: “Chaves”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Chaves”
  • Romanian: “Chaves”
  • Russian: “Шавеш”
  • Russian: “Шавиш”
  • Serbian: “Chaves”
  • Serbian: “Šaves”
  • Serbian: “Шавес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chaves”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Šaviš”
  • Slovak: “Chaves”
  • Slovenian: “Chaves”
  • Spanish: “Chaves”
  • Swedish: “Chaves, Portugal”
  • Swedish: “Chaves”
  • Tatar: “Шавиш”
  • Turkish: “Chaves, Portekiz”
  • Turkish: “Chaves”
  • Ukrainian: “Шавеш”
  • Vietnamese: “Chaves, Bồ Đào Nha”
  • Vietnamese: “Chaves”
  • Volapük: “Chaves”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaves (munisipyo)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaves Municipality”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaves, Portugal”
  • “Chaves”

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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 “Chaves”. Photo: João Carvalho, CC BY-SA 3.0.