Carora
The City of Carora, commonly called Carora City, is a city in Lara State, Venezuela, on the Morere River, a branch of the Tocuyo River. It is about 54 miles southwest of Barquisimeto.- Type: City with 122,000 residents
- Description: city in Venezuela
- Also known as: “Capital of the Bovine Race”, “Levitical Capital of Venezuela”, “Mythical, Magical and Legal City”, “The Athens of Venezuela”, “The Great Carora”, “The Land of the Adored Sun”, “Wine Capital of Venezuela”, and “World Capital of the Guitar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carora Airport.
Carora Airport
Aerodrome
Carora Airport is an airport serving the city of Carora in the Lara state of Venezuela. The Carora VOR-DME and non-directional beacon are located on the field.
Carora
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Torres Municipality, Lara, Venezuela, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.1695° or 10° 10′ 10″ north
Longitude
-70.0728° or 70° 4′ 22″ west
Population
122,000
Elevation
420 metres (1,378 feet)
IATA airport code
VCR
United Nations Location Code
VE VCR
Open location code
772F5W9G+RV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Carora” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كارورا”
- Asturian: “Carora”
- Bengali: “কারোরা”
- Catalan: “Carora”
- Cebuano: “Carora”
- Chinese: “卡羅拉”
- Danish: “Carora”
- Dutch: “Carora”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارورا”
- Esperanto: “Karora”
- Finnish: “Carora”
- French: “Carora”
- Georgian: “კარორა”
- German: “Carora”
- Greek: “Καρόρα”
- Gujarati: “કરોરા”
- Hebrew: “קרורה”
- Hindi: “करोरा”
- Indonesian: “Carora”
- Irish: “Carora”
- Italian: “Carora”
- Japanese: “カロラ (ベネズエラ)”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾರೊರಾ”
- Korean: “카로라”
- Latvian: “Karora”
- Lithuanian: “Karora”
- Malay: “Carora”
- Marathi: “कॅरोरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carora”
- Norwegian: “Carora”
- Persian: “کارورا”
- Polish: “Carora”
- Portuguese: “Carora”
- Russian: “Карора”
- Silesian: “Carora”
- Sinhala: “කරෝරා”
- Spanish: “Capital de La Raza Bovina”
- Spanish: “Capital Levítica de Venezuela”
- Spanish: “Capital Mundial de La Guitarra”
- Spanish: “Capital Vitivinícola de Venezuela”
- Spanish: “Carora (Ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Carora (Municipio Autónomo Torres, Venezuela)”
- Spanish: “Carora”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Mítica, Mágica y Letrada”
- Spanish: “La Atenas de Venezuela”
- Spanish: “La Gran Carora”
- Spanish: “La Tierra del Sol Adorada”
- Swedish: “Carora”
- Tamil: “கரோரா”
- Tatar: “Карора”
- Telugu: “కరోరా”
- Thai: “การ์รารา”
- Turkish: “Carora”
- Ukrainian: “Карора”
- Urdu: “کارورا”
- Venetian: “Carora”
- Vietnamese: “Carora”
- “Carora”
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