Ilhéus

Ilhéus is a city in that is approximately 450 km south of state capital . This city of 180,000 inhabitants is the hometown of Jorge Amado, maybe the best-known modern Brazilian writer.
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  • Type: City with 179,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
  • Also known as: Ilheus” and “Ilhéus Municipality
  • Historically known as: Ilhéos
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ilhéus/Bahia-Jorge Amado Airport and Estádio Mário Pessoa.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ilhéus/Bahia–Jorge Amado Airport, is the airport serving Ilhéus, . Since March 12, 2002 it is named after the writer Jorge Amado de Faria, who was born in the nearby city of Itabuna. It is administrated by Socicam.

Ilhéus

Latitude
-14.7926° or 14° 47′ 33″ south
Longitude
-39.0454° or 39° 2′ 43″ west
Population
179,000
Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)
Open location code
59Q26X43+XR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415522529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6320871
Wiki­data ID
Q373705
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Ilhéus” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ايليوس
  • Armenian: Իլյեուս
  • Basque: Ilhéus
  • Belarusian: Ільеус
  • Bengali: ইলহিউস
  • Bishnupriya: ইলহেউস
  • Breton: Ilhéus
  • Catalan: Ilhéus
  • Cebuano: Ilhéus
  • Chechen: Ильеус
  • Chinese: Ilhéus
  • Chinese: 伊列乌斯
  • Chinese: 伊列烏斯
  • Czech: Ilhéus
  • Danish: Ilhéus
  • Dutch: Ilheus
  • Dutch: Ilhéus
  • Esperanto: Ilhéus
  • Finnish: Ilheus
  • Finnish: Ilhéus
  • French: Ilheus
  • French: Ilhéus
  • Georgian: ილეუსი
  • German: Ilheus
  • German: Ilhéus
  • Greek: Ιλιέους
  • Gujarati: ઇલ્હેયસ
  • Hebrew: איליאוס
  • Hindi: इल्हुइस
  • Hungarian: Ilhéus
  • Ido: Ilhéus
  • Indonesian: Ilhéus
  • Interlingua: Ilhéus
  • Irish: Ilhéus
  • Italian: Ilheus
  • Italian: Ilhéus
  • Japanese: イリェウス
  • Kannada: ಇಲ್ಹ್ಯೂಸ್
  • Kazakh: Ïlʹyews
  • Kazakh: Ильеус
  • Kazakh: ىيليەۋس
  • Korean: 일례우스
  • Latvian: Iljeusa
  • Lithuanian: Iljeusas
  • Malagasy: Ilhéus
  • Malay: Ilheus
  • Marathi: इहेउस
  • Mazanderani: ایلهوس
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ilhéus
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ilhéus
  • Norwegian: Ilhéus
  • Occitan (post 1500): Ilhéus
  • Persian: ایلهوس
  • Polish: Ilheus
  • Polish: Ilhéus
  • Portuguese: Ilheense
  • Portuguese: Ilheus
  • Portuguese: Ilhéus
  • Portuguese: IOS
  • Romanian: Ilheus
  • Romanian: Ilhéus
  • Russian: Ильеус
  • Serbian: Ilhéus
  • Serbian: Iljeus
  • Serbian: Иљеус
  • Serbo-Croatian: Ilhéus
  • Sinhala: ඉල්හෙයුස්
  • Slovenian: Ilhéus, Brazilija
  • Spanish: Ilheus
  • Spanish: Ilhéus
  • Swedish: Ilhéus (kommun)
  • Swedish: Ilhéus
  • Tamil: ஐஹிஅஸ்
  • Tatar: Ильеус
  • Telugu: ఇల్హేస్
  • Thai: อิเฮอุส
  • Turkish: Ilhéus
  • Ukrainian: Ільєус
  • Urdu: یلحیوس
  • Venetian: Ilhéus
  • Vietnamese: Ilhéus
  • Volapük: Ilhéus
  • Waray (Philippines): Ilhéus
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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 “Ilhéus”. Photo: Bunks, Public domain.