Uruguay
Central Interior
Lavalleja Department

Minas

Minas is the capital of Lavalleja Department, located in the rolling hills of the of .
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  • Type: City with 38,600 residents
  • Description: city in Uruguay
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Minas”, “Lavalleja”, and “Minas, Uruguay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Minas and Cerro Artigas.

Church
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is the main Roman Catholic church building of Minas, Uruguay. It was the see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Minas from 1960 till 2020.

Peak
Photo: Roxyuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak.

School
Photo: Spazolot, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a school.

Minas

Latitude
-34.3774° or 34° 22′ 39″ south
Longitude
-55.2382° or 55° 14′ 18″ west
Population
38,600
Elevation
134 metres (440 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UY MIN
Open location code
48Q6JQF6+2P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 347693883
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3441665
Wiki­data ID
Q868205
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Satellite Map

Discover Minas from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Minas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميناس، أوروغواي”
  • Armenian: “Մինաս”
  • Asturian: “Minas”
  • Basque: “Minas”
  • Belarusian: “Мінас”
  • Bengali: “মিনাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Минас”
  • Catalan: “Minas”
  • Cebuano: “Minas (kapital sa departamento)”
  • Cebuano: “Minas”
  • Chinese: “米納斯”
  • Chinese: “米纳斯”
  • Croatian: “Minas, Urugvaj”
  • Croatian: “Minas”
  • Czech: “Minas”
  • Danish: “Minas”
  • Dutch: “Minas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه مين”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مين”
  • Esperanto: “Minas”
  • Finnish: “Minas”
  • French: “Minas”
  • Georgian: “მინასი (ურუგვაი)”
  • Georgian: “მინასი”
  • German: “Minas”
  • Greek: “Μίνας”
  • Gujarati: “મિનાસ”
  • Hebrew: “מינאס”
  • Hebrew: “מינס”
  • Hindi: “मीनास”
  • Hungarian: “Minas”
  • Indonesian: “Minas”
  • Italian: “Minas”
  • Japanese: “ミナス”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿನಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “미나스”
  • Latvian: “Minasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Minas”
  • Lithuanian: “Minasas”
  • Malay: “Minas”
  • Maltese: “Minas”
  • Marathi: “मिनास”
  • Northern Frisian: “Minas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Minas”
  • Norwegian: “Minas”
  • Persian: “میناس، اروگوئه”
  • Polish: “Minas”
  • Portuguese: “Minas”
  • Quechua: “Minas”
  • Russian: “Минас”
  • Scots: “Minas, Uruguay”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minas (Urugvaj)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Minas”
  • Sinhala: “මිනාස්, උරුගුවේ”
  • Sinhala: “මිනාස්”
  • Slovak: “Minas”
  • Slovenian: “Minas”
  • Spanish: “Minas”
  • Swedish: “Minas, Lavalleja”
  • Swedish: “Minas”
  • Tamil: “மினாஸ்”
  • Telugu: “మీనాస్”
  • Thai: “มินัส”
  • Turkish: “Minas”
  • Ukrainian: “Мінас”
  • Urdu: “میناس، یوراگوئے”
  • Uzbek: “Minas (Urugvay)”
  • Uzbek: “Minas”
  • Vietnamese: “Minas”
  • Volapük: “Minas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Minas”
  • “Minas”

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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 “Minas”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.