Ilhéus
Ilhéus is a city in Bahia that is approximately 450 km south of state capital Salvador. This city of 180,000 inhabitants is the hometown of Jorge Amado, maybe the best-known modern Brazilian writer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bunks, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ilhéus/Bahia-Jorge Amado Airport and Estádio Mário Pessoa.
Ilhéus/Bahia-Jorge Amado Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ilhéus/Bahia–Jorge Amado Airport, is the airport serving Ilhéus, Brazil. 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.
Palacete Coronel Ramiro Castro
Manor estate
Photo: RodrigoLang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palacete Coronel Ramiro Castro is a manor estate.
Ilhéus
- Categories: municipality of Brazil, big city, and locality
- Location: South, Bahia, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-14.7926° or 14° 47′ 33″ southLongitude
-39.0454° or 39° 2′ 43″ westPopulation
179,000Elevation
71 metres (233 feet)Open location code
59Q26X43+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 415522529OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6320871Wikidata ID
Q373705
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Satellite Map
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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”
- “Ilhéus”
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