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Valera Municipality

Valera

Valera is a city in Trujillo State in , situated between the rivers Momboy and Motatán. The current mayor is José Karkom, who has had that post since 2013.
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  • Type: City with 250,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Valera Municipality in Trujillo state, Venezuela
  • Also known as: “Valera, Trujillo”, “Valera, Trujillo, Venezuela”, and “Valera, Venezuela”
Photo: Chapasalas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Erchavo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Alberto Pérez and Dr. Antonio Nicolás Briceño Airport.

Stadium
Photo: Vinotinto1000, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Valera, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Trujillanos Fútbol Club.

Aerodrome
Photo: TurpialExpress, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colonel Antonio Nicolás Briceño Airport, formerly known as Antonio Nicolas Briceno National Airport, is the main Trujillo state airport in the Venezuelan Andes, located on Avenida Principal La Hoyada in the municipality of Carvajal, just outside Valera.

Valera

Latitude
9.3148° or 9° 18′ 53″ north
Longitude
-70.6082° or 70° 36′ 29″ west
Population
250,000
Elevation
524 metres (1,719 feet)
IATA airport code
VLV
United Nations Location Code
VE VLV
Open location code
67XF897R+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4655472352
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3625542
Wiki­data ID
Q1010367
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Valera” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فاليرا”
  • Asturian: “Valera”
  • Belarusian: “Валера”
  • Bengali: “ভ্যালেরা”
  • Catalan: “Valera”
  • Cebuano: “Valera”
  • Chinese: “Valera”
  • Chinese: “巴莱拉”
  • Chinese: “巴萊拉”
  • Chuvash: “Валера”
  • Czech: “Valera”
  • Danish: “Valera”
  • Dutch: “Valera”
  • Esperanto: “Valera”
  • Finnish: “Valera”
  • French: “Valera”
  • Galician: “Valera”
  • Georgian: “ვალერა”
  • German: “Valera”
  • Greek: “Βαλέρα”
  • Gujarati: “વલેરા”
  • Hebrew: “ולרה”
  • Hindi: “वालेरा”
  • Indonesian: “Valera”
  • Irish: “Valera”
  • Italian: “Valera”
  • Japanese: “バレラ”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಲೆರಾ”
  • Korean: “발레라”
  • Latvian: “Valera”
  • Lithuanian: “Valera”
  • Malay: “Valera”
  • Marathi: “व्हॅलेरा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Valera”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Valera”
  • Norwegian: “Valera”
  • Persian: “والرا”
  • Polish: “Valera”
  • Portuguese: “Valera”
  • Russian: “Валера”
  • Serbian: “Valera”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valera, Venezuela”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Valera”
  • Silesian: “Valera”
  • Sinhala: “වැලෙරා”
  • Slovak: “Valera”
  • Spanish: “Valera, Trujillo”
  • Spanish: “Valera, Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Valera”
  • Swedish: “Valera”
  • Tamil: “வலெரா”
  • Tatar: “Валера”
  • Telugu: “వలెరా”
  • Thai: “วาเลร่า”
  • Turkish: “Valera”
  • Ukrainian: “Валера”
  • Urdu: “والیرا”
  • Venetian: “Valera”
  • Vietnamese: “Valera”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Valera”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Valera”. Photo: Marquitos1979, Public domain.