Minas
Minas is the capital of Lavalleja Department, located in the rolling hills of the central interior of Uruguay.
- Type: City with 38,600 residents
- Description: city in Uruguay
- Also known as: “Ciudad de Minas”, “Lavalleja”, “Minas, Uruguay”, and “מינאס”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cathedral of Minas and Cerro Artigas.
Minas
- Category: locality
- Location: Lavalleja Department, Central Interior, Uruguay, South America
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Latitude
-34.3774° or 34° 22′ 39″ south
Longitude
-55.2382° or 55° 14′ 18″ west
Population
38,600
Elevation
134 metres (440 feet)
UN/LOCODE
UY MIN
Open location code
48Q6JQF6+2P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Minas” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሚናስ”
- Arabic: “مينا”
- Arabic: “ميناس، أوروغواي”
- Armenian: “Մինաս”
- Asturian: “Minas”
- Azerbaijani: “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”
- Hausa: “Minas”
- Hebrew: “מינס”
- Hindi: “मिनास”
- Hindi: “मीनास”
- Hungarian: “Minas”
- Indonesian: “Minas”
- Italian: “Minas”
- Japanese: “ミナス”
- Javanese: “Minas”
- Kannada: “ಮಿನಾಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Минас”
- Kirghiz: “Минас”
- Korean: “미나스”
- Latvian: “Minasa”
- Lithuanian: “Minasas”
- Malay: “Minas”
- Maltese: “Minas”
- Marathi: “मिनास”
- Northern Frisian: “Minas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Minas”
- Norwegian: “Minas”
- Oromo: “Minas”
- Panjabi: “ਮਿਨਾਸ”
- Persian: “میناس، اروگوئه”
- Persian: “میناس”
- Polish: “Minas”
- Portuguese: “Minas”
- Pushto: “مینا”
- Quechua: “Minas”
- Russian: “Минас”
- Scots: “Minas, Uruguay”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Minas (Urugvaj)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Minas”
- Sinhala: “මිනාස්, උරුගුවේ”
- Sinhala: “මිනාස්”
- Slovak: “Minas”
- Slovenian: “Minas”
- Somali: “Minas”
- Spanish: “Minas”
- Swahili: “Minas”
- Swedish: “Minas, Lavalleja”
- Swedish: “Minas”
- Tajik: “Минас”
- Tamil: “மினாஸ்”
- Tatar: “Минас”
- 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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