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.
  • City with 64,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 29 metres (95 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code PTE
  • Description: city and municipality in north-west Spain capital of Pontevedra province and the Rias Baixas
  • Postal codes
    36001-36005
    36070
    36071
    36080
    36160-36164
  • Also known as
    “capital of the Rias Baixas”
    “Pontevedra, Spain”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pontevedra Railway Station and Estadio Municipal de Pasarón.
The is one of three campuses that host the University of Vigo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monte Porreiro and A Caeira.
is a residential area in the city of Pontevedra.
is a neighbourhood in the city of Pontevedra.

Pontevedra

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Latitude
42.4319° or 42° 25′ 55″ north
Longitude
-8.6432° or 8° 38′ 35″ west
UN/LOCODE
ES PEV
Open location code
8CJHC9J4+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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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: “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”
  • 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”
  • Swiss German: “Pontevedra”
  • Tamil: “பொன்டேவெட்றா”
  • Tatar: “Понтеведра”
  • Telugu: “పొంటివేద్ర”
  • Thai: “โปนเตแบดรา”
  • 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”

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