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

People

Pilar (given name) Pilar is a feminine Spanish language given name, traditionally short for "Our Lady of the Pillar, Maria del Pilar". Notable people with the name include: Female * Pilar Adón (born 1971), Spanish writer and translator * Pilar Arlando (born 1989), ...

, a common abbreviation of ''María del Pilar'', including a list of people so named * Pilar (surname), 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, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South America ...

, a village and municipality in Río Negro Province *

Pilar, Buenos Aires Pilar is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is part of the Greater Buenos Aires urban conurbation and is the seat of the administrative division of Pilar Partido. It is located about 51 km northwest of downtown Buenos Aires. As of the ...

, city in Buenos Aires Province * Pilar, Córdoba, city in Córdoba Province *

Pilar Partido Pilar Partido is a Partidos of Buenos Aires, partido in the northern part of Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 232,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city i ...

, a partido located in Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province * Pilar, Santa Fe, town in Santa Fe Province

Brazil

* Pilar, Alagoas * Pilar, Paraíba * Pilar de Goiás, Goiás * Pilar do Sul, São Paulo

Philippines

Pilar, Abra Pilar, officially the Municipality of Pilar (, ), is a municipality in the province of Abra in the Cordillera Administrative Region of the Philippines. The population was 10,146 at the 2020 census. Geography The Municipality of Pilar is locate ...

, 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 Pilar, officially the Municipality of Pilar ( Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Pilar; ), is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, ...

, a 5th class municipality

Elsewhere

El Pilar El Pilar is an ancient Maya city center located on the Belize-Guatemala border. The site is located north of San Ignacio, Belize and can be accessed through the San Ignacio and Bullet Tree Falls on the Belize River. The name "El Pilar" is Spa ...

, an ancient Mayan city center on the Belize-Guatemala border * Pilar da Bretanha, 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 Pilar is a village in Goa, India, some 10 km from the state capital Panaji. It is on a hill top and has a panoramic view of the Arabian Sea and the mountains all around. Etymology The village is named after Our Lady of the Pillar (''Nue ...

, India *

Pilar, New Mexico Pilar (formerly Cieneguilla) is an unincorporated community in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. It is located on the Rio Grande. Etymology The original name of Cieneguilla is derived from the Spanish word , which means "marsh" or "mar ...

, United States *

Pilar, Paraguay Pilar () is the capital city of the Paraguayan Departments of Paraguay, department of Ñeembucú, located along the Paraguay River in the southwestern part of the country. Located about from Asunción, Pilar serves as an important center of com ...

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 Pilar College of Zamboanga City, Inc. is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution owned and administered by the Religious of the Virgin Mary (RVM) in Zamboanga City, Philippines. It was founded by the RVM Sisters in 1894 as a ...

, in Zamboanga City, Philippines *

Pilar tuco-tuco The Pilar tuco-tuco (''Ctenomys pilarensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae. It is found in Ñeembucú and Misiones Departments in southern Paraguay, east of the city of Pilar. The species lives in areas with sandy soil. It ...

, a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae *

Fort Pilar The Real Fuerte de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza (''Royal Fort of Our Lady of the Pillar of Saragossa''), also Fort Pilar, is a 17th-century military defense fortress built by the History of the Philippines (1521–1898), Spanish colonial g ...

, a 17th-century military defence fortress in Zamboanga City, Philippines *

List of storms named Pilar The name Pilar has been used for three tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms tha ...

, the name of multiple Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones *

Our Lady of the Pillar Our Lady of the Pillar () 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 40, AD 40 while he was pre ...

(''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 The Treaty of Pilar (in Spanish, ''Tratado del Pilar'') was a pact signed among the rulers of the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires, which is recognized as the foundation of the federal organization of the country. ...

, 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 A trichilemmal cyst (or pilar cyst) is a common cyst that forms from a hair follicle, most often on the scalp, and is smooth, mobile, and filled with keratin, a protein component found in hair, nail (anatomy), nails, skin, and horn (anatomy), ho ...