Rivera
Rivera is a city in the northern interior of Uruguay. It's the capital of Rivera Department, located on the border with Brazil, right across from the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: CITY MVD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
- Type: City with 84,800 residents
- Description: city in Uruguay
- Also known as: “Villa de Rivera”
- Neighbors: Santana do Livramento
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera and Peace Border.
Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera
Stadium
Photo: CITY MVD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Atilio Paiva Olivera is a multi-use stadium in Rivera, Uruguay. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 27,135 people.
Peace Border
Park
The Peace Border is a portion of the Brazilian-Uruguayan land border, that includes the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento. The border is so named because of the peaceful cultural interaction of both nationalities, leading to the integration of the two communities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santana do Livramento and Mandubí.
Santana do Livramento
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Santana do Livramento, locally referred to as just Livramento, is in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It's on the border with Uruguay, right across from the Uruguayan city of Rivera.
Mandubí
Neighborhood
Mandubí is a southern suburb of the city of Rivera in the Rivera Department of northeastern Uruguay.
La Pedrera
Neighborhood
La Pedrera is a hamlet and southern suburb of Rivera in the Rivera Department of northeastern Uruguay. It is a peripheral area to the city of Rivera and, together with Mandubí, they form a southern extension of the city.
Rivera
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Rivera Department, Northern Interior, Uruguay, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-30.9001° or 30° 54′ 0″ southLongitude
-55.5408° or 55° 32′ 27″ westPopulation
84,800Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)IATA airport code
RVYUnited Nations Location Code
UY RVYOpen location code
48X63FX5+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 886601234OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3440781Wikidata ID
Q646498
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Rivera” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريفيرا”
- Armenian: “Ռիվերա”
- Asturian: “Rivera”
- Belarusian: “Рывэра”
- Bengali: “রিবেরা”
- Bulgarian: “Ривера”
- Catalan: “Rivera”
- Cebuano: “Rivera (kapital sa departamento)”
- Cebuano: “Rivera”
- Chavacano: “Rivera”
- Chinese: “里韋拉”
- Chinese: “里韦拉”
- Croatian: “Rivera”
- Czech: “Rivera”
- Danish: “Rivera”
- Dutch: “Rivera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريفيرا”
- Esperanto: “Rivera”
- Extremaduran: “Rivera”
- Finnish: “Rivera”
- French: “Rivera”
- Galician: “Rivera”
- Georgian: “რივერა”
- German: “Rivera”
- Greek: “Ριβέρα”
- Gujarati: “રિવેરા”
- Hebrew: “ריברה”
- Hindi: “रिवेरा”
- Hungarian: “Rivera”
- Indonesian: “Rivera”
- Italian: “Rivera”
- Japanese: “リベラ”
- Kannada: “ರಿವೆರ”
- Korean: “리베라”
- Latvian: “Rivera”
- Lithuanian: “Rivera”
- Malay: “Rivera”
- Marathi: “रिवेरा”
- Northern Frisian: “Rivera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rivera”
- Norwegian: “Rivera”
- Ossetian: “Риверæ”
- Papiamento: “Rivera”
- Persian: “ریورا”
- Polish: “Rivera”
- Portuguese: “Rivera”
- Quechua: “Rivera”
- Russian: “Ривера”
- Serbian: “Rivera”
- Serbian: “Ривера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rivera”
- Sinhala: “රිවෙරා, උරුගුවේ”
- Sinhala: “රිවෙරා”
- Slovak: “Rivera”
- Spanish: “Rivera”
- Swedish: “Rivera, Uruguay”
- Swedish: “Rivera”
- Tamil: “ரிவேரா”
- Telugu: “రివెరా”
- Thai: “ริเบรา”
- Thai: “รีเบรา”
- Turkish: “Rivera”
- Ukrainian: “Ривера”
- Ukrainian: “Рівера”
- Urdu: “ریویرا”
- Uzbek: “Rivera”
- Vietnamese: “Rivera”
- Volapük: “Rivera”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rivera, Uruguay”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rivera”
- “Rivera”
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