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Duque de Caxias

Duque de Caxias is a municipality of , in the region, state of , of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Acadêmicos do Grande Rio and Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral.

Community center
Photo: Ricardo Almeida Fotógrafo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Grêmio Recreativo Escola de Samba is a samba school of the Special Group of the carnival of the city of Rio de Janeiro, being headquartered on Almirante Barroso street in Duque de Caxias.

Community center
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is a community center.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include São João de Meriti and Cordovil.

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is a municipality of , in the region, state.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the of , .

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the of with a large favela. It is infamous for the massacre that occurred here in 1993.

Duque de Caxias

Latitude
-22.7896° or 22° 47′ 23″ south
Longitude
-43.3099° or 43° 18′ 36″ west
Population
808,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
QDQ
United Nations Location Code
BR QDQ
Open location code
589R6M6R+52
Open­Street­Map ID
node 338515462
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3464374
Wiki­data ID
Q193021
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Duque de Caxias” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دوق دي كاكسياس”
  • Armenian: “Դուկի դի Կաշիաս”
  • Azerbaijani: “Duki-de-Kaşias”
  • Basque: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Belarusian: “Дукі-дзі-Кашыяс”
  • Belarusian: “Дукі-ды-Кашыяс”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডুকুয়ে ডে কাক্সইয়াস”
  • Bulgarian: “Дуке де Кашиас”
  • Bulgarian: “Дуки ди Кашиас”
  • Catalan: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Cebuano: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Chechen: “Дуки-ди-Кашиас”
  • Chinese: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Chinese: “卡希亚斯公爵城”
  • Chinese: “卡希亞斯公爵城”
  • Czech: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Danish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Dutch: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوق دى كاكسياس”
  • Esperanto: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Finnish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • French: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Galician: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Georgian: “დუკე დე კაშიასი”
  • Georgian: “დუკი-დი-კაშიასი”
  • German: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Guarani: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Hebrew: “דוק דה קחיאס”
  • Hindi: “ड्यूक दे काक्सियस”
  • Hungarian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Ido: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Irish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Italian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Japanese: “デューク・デ・カシアス”
  • Japanese: “ドゥケ・デ・カシアス”
  • Kazakh: “Dwkï-dï-Kaşïas”
  • Kazakh: “Дуки-ди-Кашиас”
  • Kazakh: “دۋكىي-دىي-كاشىياس”
  • Korean: “두케데카시아스”
  • Korean: “두크드카시아스”
  • Korean: “두키 지 카시아스”
  • Korean: “두키지카시아스”
  • Latvian: “Duke di Kašjasa”
  • Latvian: “Duki di Kašīasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Duke de Kašijasas”
  • Malagasy: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Norwegian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Duque de Caxias”
  • Ossetian: “Дуки-ди-Кашиас”
  • Persian: “دوکی دی کاشیس، ریو دو ژانیرو”
  • Persian: “دوکی دی کاشیس”
  • Polish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Portuguese: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Romanian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Russian: “Дуке де Кашиас”
  • Russian: “Дуке-де-Кашиас”
  • Russian: “Дуки-ди-Кашиас”
  • Russian: “Дюк де Кашиас”
  • Serbian: “Duke de Kašijas”
  • Serbian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Serbian: “Дуке де Кашијас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Silesian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Slovak: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Spanish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Swedish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Tatar: “Дуки-ди-Кашиас”
  • Thai: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Thai: “ดูกีจีกาเชียส”
  • Thai: “ดูกีดีกาเชียส”
  • Turkish: “Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro”
  • Turkish: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Ukrainian: “Дукі-ді-Кашиас”
  • Ukrainian: “Дукі-ді-Кашіас”
  • Urdu: “دوکی دی کاشیئس، ریو دے جینیرو”
  • Urdu: “دوکی دی کاشیئس”
  • Uzbek: “Dukidi-kashias”
  • Venetian: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Vietnamese: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Volapük: “Duque de Caxias”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Duque de Caxias”
  • “Duque de Caxias”

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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 “Duque de Caxias”. Photo: Luiz Antonio Silva, CC BY 3.0.