Pilar, Portuguese and Spanish for pillar, may refer to:

People

* Pilar (given name), a common abbreviation of ''María del Pilar'', including a list of people so named *

Pilar (surname) Pilar, del Pilar, or Pilař is a surname. In Spanish culture, this surname is derived from " Maria del Pilar", a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus. In Czech (pilař), and Serbo-Croatian (pìlār, pilar) the surname literally means the occupatio ...

, a list of people surnamed Pilar or del Pilar

Places

Argentina

Barrio El Pilar Barrio El Pilar is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers ...

, a village and municipality in Río Negro Province * Pilar, Buenos Aires Province * Pilar, Córdoba Province * Pilar Partido, a partido located in Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province

Brazil

Pilar, Alagoas Pilar is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 35,212 (2020) and its area is 249 km². On March 28, 1876, Pilar carried out the last official execution of Brazil when it hanged the slave Francisco Franc ...

Pilar, Paraíba Pilar, Paraíba is a municipality in the state of Paraíba in the Northeast Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraíba This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraíba (PB), located in the Northeast Region of ...

Pilar de Goiás Pilar de Goiás is a municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. Location Pilar is located 252 kilometers north of the state capital, Goiânia in the Ceres Microregion. It is connected to the south of the state, with its main urban ce ...

, Goiás *

Pilar do Sul Pilar do Sul is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Sorocaba. The population is 29,402 (2020 est.) in an area of 681.12 km². The elevation is 689 m. History The history of Pil ...

, São Paulo

Philippines

* Pilar, Abra, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Bataan, a 3rd class municipality * Pilar, Bohol, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Capiz, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Cebu, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Sorsogon, a 1st class municipality * Pilar, Surigao del Norte, a 5th class municipality

Elsewhere

* El Pilar, an ancient Mayan city center on the Belize-Guatemala border *

Pilar da Bretanha Pilar da Bretanha is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It was de-annexed from the historical parish of Bretanha on 10 July 2002, along with Ajuda da Breta ...

, a civil parish on the island of São Miguel, in the Azores * Pilar de la Horadada, a town and district in the Province of Alicante, Spain * Pilar, Goa, India * Pilar, New Mexico, United States * Pilar, Paraguay

Other uses

* ''Pilar'' (boat), Ernest Hemingway's boat, also the protagonist in his novel ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' and his nickname for second wife Pauline Pfeiffer * Pilar College, in Zamboanga City, Philippines * Pilar tuco-tuco, a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae * Fort Pilar, a 17th-century military defence fortress in Zamboanga City, Philippines *

Our Lady of the Pillar Our Lady of the Pillar ( es, Nuestra Señora del Pilar) is the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the context of the traditional belief that Mary, while living in Jerusalem, supernaturally appeared to the Apostle James the Greater in AD 4 ...

(''Nuestra Señora del Pilar'' or ''María del Pilar''), the name given to the Virgin Mary for her appearance in Spain, where she is commonly depicted as standing on top of a pillar * Treaty of Pilar, a pact signed among the rulers of the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires * In medicine and healthcare and anatomy and physiology, pilar means a hair, or something hair-like or having to do with hair; see pilar cyst