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List Of Metropolitan Areas Of Venezuela
List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela according to the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica (2013).Based on the result of the 2011 Census Metropolitan areas References {{DEFAULTSORT:Metropolitan areas in Venezuela Venezuela Metropolitan areas A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually ... Cities in Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Areas
A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually comprises multiple principal cities, jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, counties, districts, as well as even states and nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions. Metropolitan areas typically include satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically tied to the principal cities or urban core, often measured by commuting patterns. Metropolitan areas are sometimes anchored by one central city such as the Paris metropolitan area (Paris) or Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Mumbai). In other cases metropolitan areas contain multiple centers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hatillo Municipality, Venezuela
El Hatillo Municipality ( es, Municipio El Hatillo) is an administrative division of the State of Miranda, Venezuela; along with Baruta, Chacao, Libertador and Sucre, it is one of the five municipalities of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of Caracas, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda. The seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León, who was instrumental in the area's development. Although the town had its origins during the Spanish colonisation, the municipality was not established until 1991. In 2000 – the year after a new constitution was enacted in Venezuela – some of the municipality functions were delegated to a consolidated mayor's office called ''Alcaldía Mayor'', which also has some authority over the other four municipalities of Caracas. El Hatillo has some of its colonial architecture, including an 18th-century parish church and a unique Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Teques
Los Teques ) is the capital of the state of Miranda and the municipality of Guaicaipuro Municipality. It is located in the capital region of north-central Venezuela. More specifically, southwest of Caracas, 10° 21' 00" N latitude and 67° 02' 30" W Greenwich, 1,169 m above sea level. It is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, on the banks of the Río San Pedro, la enciclopedia libre, descending from an area located in the northeast. According to the Office for National Statistics in 2016, Los Teques has a population of 252,242 people. The city is considered to be part of the agglomeration known as Greater Caracas. History Fifty-two years after Guaicaipuro's death, the city of Santiago de los Altos was founded in 1620, the first city after the founding of Caracas. The founders, mostly of Spanish descent, arrived with Diego de Losada, perhaps where the name came from, in honor of the founding captain of Caracas. By the 1600s, Los Teques became part of the encomienda, and the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27 DE FEBRERO (DOÑA MENCA DE LEONI)
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatire
Guatire is a city in Miranda, Venezuela. In 2006, its population has been estimated at 200,417. Today, Guatire has virtually merged with its neighbour, Guarenas forming the Guarenas-Guatire conurbation. Located in Miranda State, and becoming part of "La gran Caracas" (Greater Caracas) because it is near Caracas (Venezuela's Capital). San Pedro Notable people * Francisco Álvarez , (born 2001) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the New York Mets. *Rómulo Betancourt,(1908–1981), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", 47th and 54th President of Venezuela *Sara Bendahan, (1906–1946) was a physician and the first Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in that country. * Miguel Pérez, (born 1983) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher for the Cincinnati Reds The Cincinnati Reds are an American professional baseball team based in Cincinnati. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarenas
Guarenas is a city in Miranda, Venezuela. It was established in 1621 as ''Nuestra Señora de Copacabana de los Guarenas''. It is part of the Guarenas-Guatire conurbation On February 27, 1989, a morning protest in this city over the recent nationwide hike in bus fares, spread to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which resulted in several days of rioting known today as the Caracazo. Today, Guarenas has virtually merged with its neighbor, Guatire. As of 2006, its population has been estimated at 185,010. The Curupao Power Plant, which was inaugurated in 1933, still provides electricity to Guarenas and Guatire. The state also owned movie production facilities, as the Villa del Cine is situated in the city. History On February 14, 1621, Guarenas was established as a city of people with an indigenous doctrine. Due to the opposition of the encomenderos, construction began two years later, in 1623, forced by an order issued by the Real Hearing of Santo Domingo, in order that the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarenas-Guatire Conurbation
Guarenas-Guatire conurbation or Guarenas-Guatire metropolitan area ( es, Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire or ''Area Metropolitana de Guarenas-Guatire''), also known as El Nuevo Este de Caracas (''New East of Caracas''), is a conurbation area in Miranda, Venezuela, that includes 2 municipalities, it is part of the Greater Caracas Area. Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire: constituye una conurbación y como tal un centro regional de segundo orden, cuya forma y estructura están determinadas por la presencia de zonas naturales protegidas, las cuales la limitan y condicionan y constituye una zona de paso de los flujos provenientes de Caracas y que se dirigen a la zona de Barlovento y los estados orientales del país. It has a population of 473,728 inhabitants. Cities The principal cities of the area are (2013): # Guarenas (pop. 264,290) # Guatire (pop. 159,725) # Araira (pop. 49,713) Municipalities The 2 municipalities of the area are: Transportation The Guarenas / Guatire Metro is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cúa
Cúa (founded in 1690) is a small city capital of the Urdaneta Municipality, located in the Miranda State (Estado Miranda) in the north of Venezuela with an altitude of 490 m. Cúa is noted for warm and clear weather, with year-round sunshine and 60 days of rainfall annually, and an average temperature that range from 18 °C to 28 °C, but with relative low humidity. With leafy forest and meadows, Cúa has a population of 123,000 (2004), mainly dedicated to services and industry (plastic pipes, paper rolls) it's a dormitory town. The most important districts of Cúa are: ''Nueva Cúa, Lecumberry, La Fila, Mume, Santa rosa'' and ''Aparay''. The local Sanctuary of the Virgin of Betania has become famous for its attributed Marian apparitions. Cúa is one of the locations served by the IFE Ezequiel Zamora Mass Transportation System. Foundation The first establishments of Cúa dates from the pre-Columbian period, being the first founders the '' Quiriquires'' natives, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Teresa Del Tuy
Santa Teresa del Tuy () is a city in the state of Miranda, Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th .... It is the capital of Independencia Municipality. Cities in Miranda (state) Populated places established in 1761 {{Venezuela-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charallave
Charallave is a city in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, and part of Miranda's Valles del Tuy region. It is the capital of Cristóbal Rojas Municipality. The name derives from the local ''Charavares'' indigenous people found at the time the city was founded. The city is connected to Caracas' public transport system via two train stations, Charallave Norte (Generalísimo Francisco de Miranda Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza (28 March 1750 – 14 July 1816), commonly known as Francisco de Miranda (), was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spani ...) and Charallave Sur (Don Simon Rodríguez). Cities in Miranda (state) Populated places established in 1681 1681 establishments in the Spanish Empire {{MirandaVE-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
