In this paper, we mainly focus on the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of YbVO₃ single crystals. As shown in Fig.1 (a, b) the grown crystals unveil several phase transitions close to 104 K, 65 K and 20 K. The observed 104 K feature originates from the occurrence of a C-type antiferromagnetic ordering of V³⁺ magnetic moments while that close to 65 K corresponds to the transformation of the established C-type spin ordering (SO) into a G-type antiferromagnetic ordering which is associated with a change in the orbital ordering (OO) from G-type to C-type. The phase transition taking place close to 20 K is more probably attributed to the ordering of Yb³⁺ magnetic moments. On the other hand, the below 65 K ordering state constituted of G-type SO/C-type OO remains very stable even under sufficiently high magnetic fields as reported in Fig.1-b. This underlines the weakness of f-d exchange couplings in the YbVO₃ vanadate being in contrast with other RVO₃ orthovanadates containing smaller rare earth elements such as DyVO₃ compound 1 . Additionally, we particularly demonstrate that the complex electronic and magnetic structures of YbVO₃ result in interesting levels of thermal effects over a wide temperature range including a giant negative magnetocaloric effect close to 60 K. In fact, the maximum entropy change is found (Fig. 1-c) to be almost 12 J/kg K in the magnetic field change of 7 T applied along the c axis and the ab-plane at 64.25 K and 65.5 K, respectively. More interestingly, the strong magnetic anisotropy shown by the V³⁺ sublattice (Fig. 1-a) results in a large rotating magnetocaloric effect (RMCE) at relatively high temperatures (Fig.1-d). This would open the avenue for the design of efficient magnetic refrigerators with simplified designs 2. Our findings are discussed in the frame of DFT calculations.