Cabudare (, original indigenous name Kabudari), is a city in
Lara State
Lara State ( es, Estado Lara, ) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Barquisimeto.
Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2015, had a census population of 2,019,211.
Toponymy
The state is named after a notable ...
, in
Venezuela
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, and capital of the
Palavecino Municipality
The Palavecino Municipality is one of the nine municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Lara and, according to a 2011 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a popula ...
.
Located at an elevation of 400 m on the
Turbio River
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, it is on the major west-central freeway, the
Autopista Centro Occidental
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The Spanish motorway (highway) network is the third lar ...
.
Due to the growth of the economy in
Barquisimeto
Barquisimeto (; guc, Watkisimeeta) is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the f ...
, Cabudare has become a bedroom community, with new housing construction replacing the sugar cane fields. A minority of the population are still engaged in agriculture within the municipality.
There are important private hospitals such as Clínica IDB Cabudare and Hospital Internacional.
The city had 78,578 inhabitants (c. 2011), which represented 40.5% of the total population of the Palavecino municipality.
Cabudare currently represents one of the biggest urban growth in Venezuela, due to its commercial and housing expansion. It has several urbanisations and neighbourhoods where a large quantity of people lives. However, in terms of beauty of the municipality, there are some improvements to be made since there has not been a lot of maintenance in important areas by the previous majors, so it is needing a push from its inhabitants to their governance in order to improve the city.
It has been considered as the dormitory city of Barquisimeto, which is the capital or the Lara State, due to its housing growth; however, it also has had commercial and industrial growth.
External links
Cabudare information portalin Spanish
Censo de Población INE
Cities in Lara (state)
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