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Pontevedra

Pontevedra is a city in in northwest Spain, with a population of 83,000 in 2024. Its old town has a fine collection of 16th - 18th century churches, and stands on the Portuguese branch of the pilgrimage route to Santiago.
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  • Type: City with 63,700 residents
  • Description: city and municipality in north-west Spain capital of Pontevedra province and the Rias Baixas
  • Also known as: “capital of the Rias Baixas” and “Pontevedra, Spain”
  • Postal codes: 36001-36005, 36070, 36071, 36080, and 36160-36164
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Municipal de Pasarón and Pontevedra Campus.

Stadium
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is an all-seater football located in Pontevedra, , Spain.

University
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The is one of three campuses that host the University of Vigo. It is located in the Spanish city of Pontevedra and offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies in Social sciences, health sciences, arts, engineering and Sports.

Library
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The Public Library of Pontevedra Antonio Odriozola located in Pontevedra is the provincial state library in the and is part of the Public Library Network of and the State Public Library Network.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monte Porreiro and A Caeira.

Village
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is a residential area in the city of Pontevedra. It is the seat of the National University of Distance Education in the .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the city of Pontevedra. It is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city and is crossed by the Portuguese Way. On its right-hand side is the A Xunqueira area with important educational and cultural facilities.

Pontevedra

Latitude
42.4319° or 42° 25′ 55″ north
Longitude
-8.6432° or 8° 38′ 35″ west
Population
63,700
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
PTE
United Nations Location Code
ES PEV
Open location code
8CJHC9J4+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 764716504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3113209
Wiki­data ID
Q12411
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Pontevedra” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Pontevedra”
  • Afrikaans: “Pontevedra”
  • Albanian: “Pontevedra”
  • Arabic: “بونتيفيدرا”
  • Aragonese: “Pontevedra”
  • Armenian: “Պոնտեվեդրա”
  • Arpitan: “Pontevedra”
  • Asturian: “Pontevedra”
  • Bambara: “Pontevedra”
  • Basque: “Pontevedra”
  • Bavarian: “Pontevedra”
  • Belarusian: “Пантэведра”
  • Bengali: “পোন্তেবেদ্রা”
  • Bosnian: “Pontevedra”
  • Breton: “Pontevedra”
  • Bulgarian: “Понтеведра”
  • Catalan: “Pontevedra”
  • Cebuano: “Pontevedra”
  • Central Bikol: “Pontevedra (Espanya)”
  • Central Bikol: “Pontevedra”
  • Chamorro: “Pontevedra”
  • Chavacano: “Pontevedra”
  • Chechen: “Понтеведра”
  • Cheyenne: “Pontevedra”
  • Chinese: “Pontevedra”
  • Chinese: “蓬特韋德拉”
  • Chinese: “蓬特韋德拉省”
  • Chinese: “蓬特韦德拉”
  • Cornish: “Pontevedra”
  • Corsican: “Pontevedra”
  • Croatian: “Pontevedra”
  • Czech: “Pontevedra”
  • Danish: “Pontevedra”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pontevedra”
  • Dutch: “Pontevedra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بونتيفيدرا”
  • Esperanto: “Pontevedro”
  • Estonian: “Pontevedra”
  • Ewe: “Pontevedra”
  • Extremaduran: “Pontevedra”
  • Faroese: “Pontevedra”
  • Finnish: “Pontevedra”
  • French: “capitale des Rias Baixas”
  • French: “la bonne ville (Jean Froissart)”
  • French: “Pontevedra”
  • Friulian: “Pontevedra”
  • Gagauz: “Pontevedra”
  • Galician: “Pontevedra”
  • Georgian: “პონტევედრა (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “პონტევედრა”
  • German: “Pontevedra”
  • Greek: “Ποντεβέδρα”
  • Greek: “Ποντεβέντρα”
  • Guarani: “Pontevedra”
  • Gujarati: “પેન્ટેવેરા”
  • Haitian: “Pontevedra”
  • Hebrew: “פונטבדרה”
  • Hindi: “पोन्टेवेड्रा”
  • Hungarian: “Pontevedra”
  • Icelandic: “Pontevedra”
  • Ido: “Pontevedra”
  • Iloko: “Pontevedra”
  • Indonesian: “Pontevedra”
  • Interlingua: “Pontevedra”
  • Interlingue: “Pontevedra”
  • Irish: “Pontevedra”
  • Italian: “Pontevedra”
  • Japanese: “ポンテベドラ”
  • Javanese: “Pontevedra”
  • Kabyle: “Pontevedra”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಂಟೆವೇದ್ರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pontevedra”
  • Korean: “폰테베드라”
  • Ladin: “Pontevedra”
  • Ladino: “Pontevedra”
  • Latin: “Pontevedra”
  • Latvian: “Pontebedra”
  • Latvian: “Pontevedra”
  • Ligurian: “Pontevedra”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pontevedra”
  • Lithuanian: “Pontevedra”
  • Lombard: “Pontevedra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pontevedra”
  • Macedonian: “Понтеведра”
  • Malagasy: “Pontevedra”
  • Malay: “Pontevedra”
  • Maori: “Pontevedra”
  • Marathi: “पोंटेवड्रा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pontevedra”
  • Neapolitan: “Pontevedra”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pontevedra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pontevedra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pontevedra”
  • Norwegian: “Pontevedra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pontevedra”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pontevedra”
  • Ossetian: “Понтеведрæ”
  • Pampanga: “Pontevedra”
  • Persian: “پنتبدرا”
  • Polish: “Pontevedra”
  • Portuguese: “Ponte Vedra”
  • Portuguese: “Pontevedra”
  • Quechua: “Pontevedra”
  • Romanian: “Pontevedra”
  • Russian: “Pontevedra”
  • Russian: “Понтеведра (город)”
  • Russian: “Понтеведра”
  • Samogitian: “Pontevedra”
  • Sardinian: “Pontevedra”
  • Scots: “Pontevedra”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pontevedra”
  • Serbian: “Понтеведра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pontevedra”
  • Sicilian: “Pontevedra”
  • Silesian: “Pontevedra”
  • Sinhala: “පොන්ටෙවෙන්ද්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Pontevedra”
  • Slovenian: “Pontevedra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پنتبدرا”
  • Spanish: “capital de las Rías Bajas”
  • Spanish: “ciudad del Lérez”
  • Spanish: “Ponte Vedra”
  • Spanish: “Pontevedra”
  • Swahili: “Pontevedra”
  • Swedish: “Pontevedra”
  • Tamil: “பொன்டேவெட்றா”
  • Tatar: “Понтеведра”
  • Telugu: “పొంటివేద్ర”
  • Thai: “โปนเตแบดรา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pontevedra”
  • Turkish: “Pontevedra”
  • Turkmen: “Pontevedra”
  • Ukrainian: “Понс-Вет”
  • Ukrainian: “Понте-Ведра”
  • Ukrainian: “Понте-Ветера”
  • Ukrainian: “Понтеведра”
  • Urdu: “پونتیبیدرا”
  • Uzbek: “Pontevedra”
  • Venetian: “Pontevedra”
  • Vietnamese: “Pontevedra”
  • Volapük: “Pontevedra”
  • Walloon: “Pontevedra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pontevedra”
  • Welsh: “Pontevedra”
  • Western Frisian: “Pontevedra (stêd)”
  • Western Frisian: “Pontevedra”
  • Wu Chinese: “蓬特韦德拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “蓬特韋德拉”
  • “Pontevedra”

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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 “Pontevedra”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.