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Pilar is Portuguese and Spanish for pillar. It has assumed a great religious significance due to
- Nuestra Señora del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar), the name given to the Blessed Virgin Mary for her appearance in Spain, where she is commonly depicted as standing on top of a pillar
- María del Pilar (Mary of the Pillar), derived from the above, is a common female name in Latin American countries. In Spain, it is usually abbreviated to Pilar, and as such developed into a name in its own right.
People
- Pilar (given name), a list of people so named
- Pilar (surname), a list of people surnamed Pilar or del Pilar
Places
Argentina
- Barrio El Pilar, 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, a neighbourhood in District 2, Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro
- Pilar, Paraíba
- Pilar de Goiás, Goiás
- Pilar do Sul, 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, Surigao del Norte, a 5th class municipality
- Pilar, Sorsogon, a 1st class municipality
Elsewhere
- El Pilar, 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, India
- Pilar, New Mexico, United States
- Pilar, Paraguay
Other uses
- Fort Pilar, a 17th-century military defence fortress built by the Spanish colonial government in Zamboanga City, Philippines
- Pilar College, a private sectarian school in Zamboanga City, Philippines
- Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, a fictional character on the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions
- Pilar tuco-tuco, a species of rodent in the family Ctenomyidae
- Treaty of Pilar, a pact signed among the rulers of the Argentine provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Buenos Aires
- 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
- Pillar (band), a Christian rock band
See also
- Pilars (disambiguation), a disambiguation page
- Pillar (disambiguation)
- Pila (disambiguation)
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