Brazil
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Rondônia

Porto Velho

Porto Velho is the capital of the state of in . At first sight for the traveler, Porto Velho has little to offer but a main street with rather uninteresting shops that can be found anywhere else in Brasil.
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Photo: Braulio Gerhardt, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, Porto Velho and Aluizão.

Church
Photo: Luiz Alexandre, CC BY 2.0.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, also Porto Velho Cathedral. Is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Porto Velho, in the state of , in the South American country of .

Stadium
Estádio Aluízio Ferreira, usually known as Estádio Aluízio Ferreira and nicknamed , is a football located in Porto Velho, state, .

Porto Velho

Latitude
-8.7495° or 8° 44′ 58″ south
Longitude
-63.8735° or 63° 52′ 25″ west
Population
460,000
Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)
Open location code
673R742G+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 256304928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6319243
Wiki­data ID
Q172512
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Porto Velho” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتو فاليو”
  • Armenian: “Պորտու Վելյու”
  • Asturian: “Porto Velho”
  • Basque: “Porto Velho”
  • Belarusian: “Порту-Велью”
  • Bengali: “পোর্তো ভেলহো”
  • Bishnupriya: “পর্টো ভেলহো”
  • Bulgarian: “Порто Вельо”
  • Bulgarian: “Порту Велю”
  • Catalan: “Porto Velho”
  • Cebuano: “Porto Velho”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرتۆ ڤێلۆ”
  • Chinese: “Porto Velho”
  • Chinese: “波多韋柳”
  • Chinese: “波多韦柳”
  • Chinese: “韋柳港”
  • Chinese: “韦柳港”
  • Corsican: “Porto Velho”
  • Croatian: “Porto Velho”
  • Czech: “Porto Velho”
  • Danish: “Porto Velho”
  • Dutch: “Porto Velho”
  • Esperanto: “Porto Velho”
  • Finnish: “Porto Velho”
  • Finnish: “Pôrto Velho”
  • French: “Porto Velho”
  • French: “Pôrto Velho”
  • Galician: “Porto Velho”
  • Georgian: “პორტუ-ველიუ”
  • German: “Porto Velho”
  • German: “Pôrto Velho”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο Βέλιο”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટો વેલ્હો”
  • Hebrew: “פורטו ולאהו”
  • Hebrew: “פורטו וליו”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टो वेल्हो”
  • Hungarian: “Porto Velho”
  • Ido: “Porto Velho”
  • Indonesian: “Porto Velho”
  • Interlingua: “Porto Velho”
  • Irish: “Porto Velho”
  • Italian: “Porto Velho”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・ヴェーリョ”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・ベーリョ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ವೆಲೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Portw-Velʹyu”
  • Kazakh: “Порту-Велью”
  • Kazakh: “پورتۋ-ۆەليۋ”
  • Korean: “포르투 벨류”
  • Korean: “포르투벨류”
  • Latin: “Portus Vetus”
  • Latvian: “Portuvelju”
  • Latvian: “Portuveļu”
  • Lithuanian: “Port Velho”
  • Lithuanian: “Porto Veljas”
  • Lithuanian: “Portu Veljas”
  • Malagasy: “Porto Velho”
  • Malay: “Porto Velho”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तो व्हेल्हो”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتو ولیو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porto Velho”
  • Northern Frisian: “Porto Velho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Velho”
  • Norwegian: “Porto Velho”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Porto Velho”
  • Ossetian: “Порту-Велью”
  • Persian: “پورتو ولیو”
  • Polish: “Porto Velho”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Velho”
  • Romanian: “Porto Velho”
  • Russian: “Порту-Велью”
  • Scots: “Porto Velho”
  • Serbian: “Porto Velho”
  • Serbian: “Porto Veljo”
  • Serbian: “Порто Вељо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Porto Velho”
  • Silesian: “Porto Velho”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ටෝ වෙල්හෝ”
  • Slovak: “Porto Velho”
  • Slovak: “Pôrto Velho”
  • Spanish: “Porto Velho”
  • Swahili: “Porto Velho”
  • Swedish: “Porto Velho (kommun)”
  • Swedish: “Porto Velho”
  • Tajik: “Portu-Velju”
  • Tajik: “Порту-Велю”
  • Tamil: “போர்டோ வெல்ஹோ”
  • Tatar: “Порту-Велью”
  • Telugu: “పోర్టో వెళ్హో”
  • Thai: “โปร์ตูเวลยู”
  • Thai: “โปร์ตูแวญู”
  • Turkish: “Porto Velho”
  • Ukrainian: “Порту-Вельу”
  • Ukrainian: “Порту-Велью”
  • Urdu: “پورتو ویلہو”
  • Uzbek: “Porto Velho”
  • Venetian: “Porto Velho”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto Velho”
  • Volapük: “Porto Velho”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porto Velho”
  • Welsh: “Porto Velho”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورتو ویلہو”
  • Wu Chinese: “波多韦柳”
  • Wu Chinese: “韦柳港”
  • “Porto Velho”

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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 “Porto Velho”. Photo: Braulio Gerhardt, CC BY 3.0.