La Asunción
La Asunción is a city in Venezuela. The capital of Nueva Esparta state, it lies on Margarita Island in the Caribbean Sea, off the South American mainland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 35,100 residents
- Description: city in Venezuela, capital of Nueva Esparta
- Also known as: “La Asuncion”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle and Gimnasio Ciudad de la Asunción.
Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Rosa de la Eminencia castle is a colonial castle built in the seventeenth century by the Spanish monarchy on Margarita Island, Venezuela. After a group of French pirates attacked the city of La Asunción, its construction started on 24 March 1677, by order of governor Juan Muñoz de Gadea, and it was finished c. 1683.
Gimnasio Ciudad de la Asunción
Sports venue
Gimnasio Ciudad de La Asunción is an indoor sporting arena located in La Asunción, Venezuela. The capacity of the arena is 8,500 spectators and is used mostly for basketball. It hosts the Guaiqueríes de Margarita of the Venezuelan Basketball League.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Valle del Espíritu Santo and La Plaza de Paraguachí.
El Valle del Espíritu Santo
Town
Photo: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Valle del Espíritu Santo is a village near Porlamar, in the Nueva Esparta state of Venezuela. Founded as the capital of the island in 1529, El Valle del Espíritu Santo is just north of Porlamar.
La Plaza de Paraguachí
Town
La Plaza de Paraguachí is a town on Isla Margarita, in the state of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. It is the capital of the Antolín del Campo Municipality.
Pampatar
Photo: Elianne Marie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pampatar is a city on Margarita Island. The Castillo de San Carlos de Borromeo on the waterfront in the center of town. Constructed entirely of coral, the fort, built by the Spanish in 1662 after the original was destroyed by the Dutch.
La Asunción
- Category: locality
- Location: Arismendi Municipality, Nueva Esparta, Caribbean Islands, Venezuela, South America
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Latitude
11.034° or 11° 2′ 2″ northLongitude
-63.86315° or 63° 51′ 47″ westPopulation
35,100Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
VE LSNOpen location code
773R24MP+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 264393693OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“La Asunción” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لا أسونسيون”
- Aragonese: “La Asunción”
- Armenian: “Լա Ասունսիոն”
- Asturian: “La Asunción”
- Belarusian: “Ла-Асунсьён”
- Catalan: “La Asunción”
- Cebuano: “La Asunción”
- Chinese: “拉亚松森”
- Chinese: “拉亞松森”
- Dutch: “La Asuncion”
- Dutch: “La Asunción”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لا اسونسيون”
- Esperanto: “La Asunción”
- French: “La Asuncion”
- French: “La Asunción”
- Galician: “La Asunción”
- Georgian: “ლა ასუნსიონი”
- Georgian: “ლა-ასუნსიონი”
- German: “La Asuncion”
- German: “La Asunción”
- German: “La Margarita”
- German: “Valle de Santa Lucia”
- German: “Valle de Santa Lucía”
- German: “Villa del Espiritu Santo”
- German: “Villa del Espíritu Santo”
- Hebrew: “לה אסונסיון”
- Italian: “La Asunción”
- Japanese: “ラ・アスンシオン”
- Japanese: “ラアスンシオン”
- Korean: “라 아순시온”
- Korean: “라아순시온”
- Latvian: “Laasunsjona”
- Lithuanian: “La Asunsjonas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Asunción”
- Ossetian: “Ла-Асунсьон”
- Persian: “لا آسونسیون”
- Polish: “La Asuncion”
- Polish: “La Asunción”
- Portuguese: “La Asunción”
- Quechua: “La Asunción”
- Romanian: “La Asuncion”
- Romanian: “La Asunción”
- Russian: “Ла Асунсьон”
- Russian: “Ла-Асунсьон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “La Asunción”
- Sinhala: “ලා අසුන්සියොන්, නුඑවා එස්පර්ටා”
- Slovenian: “La Asunción”
- Spanish: “La Asuncion”
- Spanish: “La Asunción”
- Swedish: “La Asuncion”
- Swedish: “La Asunción”
- Tatar: “Ла-Асунсьон”
- Turkish: “La Asunción, Nueva Esparta”
- Turkish: “La Asunción”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Асунсьйон”
- Ukrainian: “Ла-Асунсьон”
- Urdu: “لا اسونکیون”
- Waray (Philippines): “La Asunción”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cementerio General de la Asunción and Iglesia de La Asunción.
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