What is "camoes"

Camoes or Camões may refer to:

• Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet
• Camões Prize, a literary prize for the Portuguese language
• Camões (film), a 1946 Portuguese drama film
• Instituto Camões, a Portuguese institution for the promotion of Portuguese language and culture
• Camões Family, Portuguese surname
• Camões Secondary School, a school in Lisbon, Portugal
• Camoes (crater), a crater on Mercury

Camões is a 1946 Portuguese drama film directed by José Leitão de Barros. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.

Camoes is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 70 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Camoes is named for the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, who lived from 1524 to 1580.