Chaves

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Chaves

Total population

22,363

Coordinates41.74°, -7.47°

Demographic figures from INE Portugal. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Chaves, officially the City of Chaves, is a city and a municipality in the north of Portugal. It is 10 km south of the Spanish border and 22 km south of Verín (Spain). The population of the entire municipality in 2011 was 41,243, in an area of 591.23 km2. The municipality is the second most populous of the district of Vila Real. With origins in the Roman civitas Aquæ Flaviæ, Chaves has developed into a regional centre. The urban area or city proper has 17,535 residents (2001).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

J

João Alves

Portuguese footballer

Manuel Maria Coelho

Prime Minister of Portugal (1857-1943)

António Granjo

Portuguese politician (1881-1921)

F

Fernando Pereira

Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer; killed during the 1985 Rainbow Warrior bombing

F

Fernando Pascoal Neves

Portuguese footballer (1947–1973)

Nadir Afonso

Portuguese painter and architect (1920-2013)

José Celestino da Silva

Portuguese officer (1849–1911)

F

Fernando Aguiar

Portuguese footballer

R

Ricardo Chaves

Portuguese footballer

Vítor Castanheira

Portuguese footballer

Bottelho

Portuguese painter (1964-2014)

C

Carlos Manuel Pereira Pinto

Portuguese association football player

Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho

Portuguese count

E

Eduardo José Borges Machado

Portuguese footballer

Inácio Luís Madeira de Melo

Portuguese military officer

V

Vítor Pereira

Portuguese association football player

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Vila Real

• Vidago
  8.5 mi away · pop. 1,204
• Charef
  742.7 mi away · pop. 100,000
• Djelfa
  759 mi away · pop. 289,226
• Faidh El Botma
  787.8 mi away · pop. 32,501
• Maguied
  789.6 mi away
• Haniet Kaabacha
  790.9 mi away
• El Hania Ouled Salem
  791.6 mi away
• Messaad
  793.5 mi away · pop. 114,625
• El Gahra
  795.3 mi away
• Mehache
  799 mi away · pop. 100
• عمورة ⵄⴻⵎⵓⵔⴰ
  800.1 mi away
• عين وزغار ⵄⵉⵏ ⵡⴻⵥⵖⴰⵔ
  803 mi away

Browse all places in Vila Real →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Chaves

As eleições de 1958

Teresa Maria Henrique · 2008

Urbanismo e morfologia urbana no Norte de Portugal

Mário Gonçalves Fernandes · 2005

Guia de Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian · 1900

Uma vida de professora que forma professoras/es e trabalha para o alargamento do possível no currículo

Marlucy Alves Paraíso · 2019

Uma luz no fim do túnel

2001

Juízes

2015

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

European Starling

Sturnus vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-21

Common Purslane

Portulaca oleracea

Seen 2026-09-20

Rosemary

Salvia rosmarinus

Seen 2026-09-20

Portuguese Mountain Bush-cricket

Antaxius spinibrachius

Seen 2026-09-20

Broad Green-winged Grasshopper

Aiolopus strepens

Seen 2026-09-19

European Mantis

Mantis religiosa

Seen 2026-09-19

Angular Orbweaver Spider

Araneus angulatus

Seen 2026-09-18

Iberian Solifugid

Gluvia dorsalis

Seen 2026-09-15

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Leptoglossus occidentalis

Seen 2026-09-14

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers