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Iribarren Municipality

Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto is a city in and the state capital of Lara State. Founded in 1552, it is a center of commerce and agriculture for western Venezuela and the country's fourth biggest municipality.
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  • Type: City with 1,240,000 residents
  • Description: Venezuelan city
  • Also known as: “Barquisimeto, Venezuela”, “Barquisimito”, and “Bqto”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Barquisimeto and Domo Bolivariano de Barquisimeto.

Church
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Barquisimeto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. It is one of the most modern cathedrals in Latin America, considered original in style.

Stadium
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, or simply Domo Bolivariano, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Barquisimeto, . The arena is named in honor of Simón Bolívar.

Stadium
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The Farid Richa Stadium is a football facility located in the capital city of , Barquisimeto, in the central-western part of . It serves as the home ground for the second-division local football teams Policía de Lara F.

Barquisimeto

Latitude
10.0774° or 10° 4′ 39″ north
Longitude
-69.3222° or 69° 19′ 20″ west
Population
1,240,000
Elevation
606 metres (1,988 feet)
IATA airport code
BRM
United Nations Location Code
VE BRM
Open location code
772G3MGH+X4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1622415710
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3648522
Wiki­data ID
Q4709
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Barquisimeto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barquisimeto”
  • Arabic: “باركيسيميتو”
  • Aragonese: “Barquisimeto”
  • Armenian: “Բարկիսիմետո”
  • Armenian: “Բարքիզիմետո”
  • Asturian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Basque: “Barquisimeto”
  • Belarusian: “Баркісімета”
  • Bengali: “বার্কিসিমেতো”
  • Bulgarian: “Баркисимето”
  • Catalan: “Barquisimeto”
  • Cebuano: “Barquisimeto”
  • Chechen: “Баркисимето”
  • Chinese: “巴圭斯美圖”
  • Chinese: “巴圭西密多”
  • Chinese: “巴基西梅托”
  • Chuvash: “Баркисимето”
  • Czech: “Barquisimeto”
  • Danish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Dutch: “Barquisimeto”
  • Dutch: “Nueva Segovia de Barquisimeto”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باركيسيميتو”
  • Esperanto: “Barquisimeto”
  • Estonian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Finnish: “Barquisimeto”
  • French: “Barquisimeto”
  • Galician: “Barquisimeto”
  • Georgian: “ბარკისიმეტო”
  • German: “Barquisimeto”
  • Greek: “Μπαρκισιμέτο”
  • Gujarati: “બાર્ક્વીસિમેટો”
  • Hebrew: “ברקיסימטו”
  • Hindi: “बार्किविसमेटो”
  • Hungarian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Ido: “Barquisimeto”
  • Indonesian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Irish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Italian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Italian: “Nueva Segovia de Barquisimeto”
  • Japanese: “バルキシメト”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಕ್ವಿಸ್ಮಿಟೊ”
  • Kirghiz: “Баркисимето”
  • Korean: “바르키시메토”
  • Ladino: “Barkisimeto”
  • Ladino: “Barquisimeto”
  • Latin: “Barquisimeto”
  • Latin: “Barquisimetum”
  • Latvian: “Barkisimeto”
  • Lithuanian: “Barkisimetas”
  • Lithuanian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Macedonian: “Barkisimetas”
  • Macedonian: “Barkisimeto”
  • Macedonian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Macedonian: “Баркисимето”
  • Macedonian: “Баркісімето”
  • Macedonian: “ბარკისიმეტო”
  • Macedonian: “バルキシメト”
  • Malay: “Barquisimeto”
  • Marathi: “बार्किस्किमेटो”
  • Mongolian: “Баркисимето”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barquisimeto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barquisimeto”
  • Norwegian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barquisimeto”
  • Ossetian: “Баркисимето”
  • Persian: “بارکیسیمتو”
  • Polish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Portuguese: “Barquisimeto”
  • Quechua: “Barquisimeto”
  • Romanian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Russian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Russian: “Баркисимето”
  • Scots: “Barquisimeto”
  • Serbian: “Баркисимето”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Sinhala: “බාර්කිසිමෙටෝ, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Sinhala: “බාර්ක්විසිමෙටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Barquisimeto”
  • Slovenian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Spanish: “Barquisimeto Edo. Lara”
  • Spanish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Segovia”
  • Swedish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Tamil: “பரகுஇசைமேடோ”
  • Tatar: “Баркисимето”
  • Telugu: “బార్క్విసిమ్టొ”
  • Thai: “บาร์ควิสสิเมโท”
  • Turkish: “Barquisimeto”
  • Ukrainian: “Баркісімето”
  • Urdu: “بارکیسیمتو”
  • Uzbek: “Barkisimeto”
  • Venetian: “Barquisimeto”
  • Veps: “Barkisimeto”
  • Vietnamese: “Barquisimeto”
  • Volapük: “Barquisimeto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barquisimeto”
  • Wayuu: “Watkisimeeta”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴基西梅托”
  • “Barquisimeto”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Barquisimeto”. Photo: Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 3.0.