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Governador Valadares

Governador Valadares is a city of 280,000 people in the Rio Doce Valley of . Governador Valadares is widely regarded as the "America-town" of Brazil.
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  • Type: City with 267,000 residents
  • Description: municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Figueira” and “Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral, Governador Valadares.

Church
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St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral, also Governador Valadares Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Governador Valadares, located in the city of Governador Valadares, in the state of , .

Governador Valadares

Latitude
-18.8574° or 18° 51′ 27″ south
Longitude
-41.9439° or 41° 56′ 38″ west
Population
267,000
Elevation
169 metres (554 feet)
IATA airport code
GVR
United Nations Location Code
BR GVR
Open location code
58HW43V4+2C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 246670997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3462315
Wiki­data ID
Q462218
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Governador Valadares” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غوفيرنادور فالاداريس”
  • Armenian: “Գովերնադոր Վալադարիս”
  • Basque: “Governador Valadares”
  • Belarusian: “Гавернадар-Валадарыс”
  • Bengali: “গভর্নাডোর ভালাদারেস”
  • Bishnupriya: “গোভের্নাডোর্ ভালাডারেস”
  • Bulgarian: “Говернадор Валадарис”
  • Catalan: “Governador Valadares”
  • Cebuano: “Governador Valadares”
  • Chechen: “Говернадор-Валадарис”
  • Chinese: “Governador Valadares”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉达里斯州长市”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉達里斯州長市”
  • Croatian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Danish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Dutch: “Governador Valadares”
  • Esperanto: “Governador Valadares”
  • Finnish: “Governador Valadares”
  • French: “Governador Valadares”
  • Georgian: “გოვერნადორ-ვალადარისი”
  • German: “Governador Valadares”
  • Greek: “Γκοβερνάντορ Βαλαντάρες”
  • Gujarati: “ગવર્નર વાલાડેર્સ”
  • Hindi: “गोवेरनाडोर वालाडारेस”
  • Hungarian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Ido: “Governador Valadares”
  • Indonesian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Irish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Italian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Japanese: “ゴベルナドール・バラダレス”
  • Kannada: “ಗವರ್ಡಾರ್ ವ್ಯಾಲಾಡರ್ಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Governador-Valadarïs”
  • Kazakh: “Говернадор-Валадарис”
  • Kazakh: “گوۆەرنادور-ۆالادارىيس”
  • Korean: “고베르나도르발라다레스”
  • Latvian: “Governador-Valadaresa”
  • Lithuanian: “Governador Valadaresas”
  • Malagasy: “Governador Valadares”
  • Malay: “Governador Valadares”
  • Marathi: “गव्हनडोर वॅलंडेअरस्”
  • Mazanderani: “گوورنادور والادارس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Governador Valadares”
  • Moksha: “Говэрнадор Валадарэс”
  • Nauru: “Governador Valadares”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Governador Valadares”
  • Norwegian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Persian: “گوورنادور والادارس”
  • Polish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Portuguese: “Gov. Valadares”
  • Portuguese: “Governador Valadares”
  • Portuguese: “Valadares”
  • Romanian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Russian: “Говернадор-Валадарес”
  • Russian: “Говернадор-Валадарис”
  • Serbian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Serbian: “Говернадор Валадарес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Silesian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Sinhala: “ගොවෙන්දර් වැලදෙරෙස්”
  • Slovenian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Spanish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Swedish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Tamil: “கோவேர்னாடோர் வாலாடாரெஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Говернадор-Валадарис”
  • Telugu: “గవర్నడోర్ వాలాడరోస్”
  • Thai: “Governador Valadares”
  • Thai: “กูเวอร์นาโดร์วาละดารีส”
  • Thai: “โกเวร์นาโดร์วาลาดาริส”
  • Turkish: “Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais”
  • Turkish: “Governador Valadares”
  • Ukrainian: “Говернадор-Валадарес”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґовернадор-Валадарес”
  • Urdu: “جوویرنادور والاداریس”
  • Venetian: “Governador Valadares”
  • Vietnamese: “Governador Valadares”
  • Volapük: “Governador Valadares”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Governador Valadares”

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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 “Governador Valadares”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.