Coro
Coro is the capital of Falcón state in Northwest Venezuela. It had about 200,000 residents as of 2011. Santa Ana de Coro, referred to as Coro, was the first capital of Venezuela, is the oldest city in the west of Venezuela and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 211,000 residents
- Description: capital of Falcón State and the oldest city in the west of Venezuela
- Also known as: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Historically known as: “Santa Ana de Coro”
Places of Interest
Highlights include José Leonardo Chirino Airport and Cathedral of Coro.
José Leonardo Chirino Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Carlos E. Perez S.L, CC BY-SA 4.0.
José Leonardo Chirino Airport, is an airport serving Coro, the capital of Falcón state in Venezuela. It is named to honor José Leonardo Chirino, leader of a 1795 rebellion in Coro that called for the abolition of slavery and the establishment of a democratic republic.
Cathedral of Coro
Church
Photo: Janethrodri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. Anne is a cathedral and basilica located in Coro, Venezuela. Pope Clement VII created the Diocese of Coro in 1531. Construction of the cathedral began in 1583; it is not known who designed the plan with its nave and 2 aisles.
Iglesia de San Clemente
Church
Photo: Janethrodri, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iglesia de San Clemente is a church.
Coro
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Miranda Municipality, Falcón, Northwest, Venezuela, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.4056° or 11° 24′ 20″ northLongitude
-69.6679° or 69° 40′ 5″ westPopulation
211,000Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)IATA airport code
CZEUnited Nations Location Code
VE CZEOpen location code
773GC84J+6ROpenStreetMap ID
node 4415327350OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3645213Wikidata ID
Q1134454
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Coro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانتا آنا دي كورو”
- Aragonese: “Coro (Benezuela)”
- Aragonese: “Coro”
- Armenian: “Կորո”
- Asturian: “Coro”
- Azerbaijani: “Koro”
- Belarusian: “Кора”
- Belarusian: “Санта Ана дэ Кора”
- Belarusian: “Санта-Ана-дэ-Кора”
- Bengali: “কুরো”
- Bulgarian: “Коро”
- Catalan: “Coro”
- Catalan: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Cebuano: “Coro (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Coro”
- Chinese: “聖安娜德科羅”
- Chuvash: “Коро”
- Croatian: “Coro”
- Czech: “Coro”
- Danish: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Dutch: “Coro”
- Dutch: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانتا آنا دى كورو”
- Esperanto: “Coro (Venezuela)”
- Esperanto: “Coro (Venezuelo)”
- Esperanto: “Coro”
- Fijian: “Coro”
- Finnish: “Coro”
- French: “Coro”
- Galician: “Coro”
- Georgian: “კორო”
- Georgian: “სანტა ანა დე კორო”
- Georgian: “სანტა-ანა-დე-კორო”
- German: “Coro”
- German: “Neu-Augsburg”
- German: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Greek: “Κόρο”
- Gujarati: “કોરો”
- Hebrew: “סנטה אנה דה קורו”
- Hebrew: “קורו”
- Hindi: “कोरो”
- Hungarian: “Coro”
- Indonesian: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Indonesian: “Coro”
- Irish: “Coro”
- Italian: “Coro”
- Japanese: “コロ”
- Japanese: “コロとその港”
- Japanese: “サンタ・アナ・デ・コロ”
- Kannada: “ಕೊರೊ”
- Kirghiz: “Коро шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Коро”
- Korean: “코로 (도시)”
- Korean: “코로”
- Korean: “코로항구”
- Ladino: “Coro”
- Ladino: “Koro”
- Ladino: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Latin: “Corum”
- Latvian: “Koro”
- Lithuanian: “Santa Ana de Koras”
- Malay: “Coro”
- Maltese: “Coro”
- Maltese: “Neu-Augsburg”
- Maltese: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Marathi: “कोरो”
- Moksha: “Коро”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Coro”
- Norwegian: “Coro”
- Ossetian: “Коро”
- Papiamento: “Coro”
- Persian: “سانتا آنا دکورو”
- Polish: “Coro”
- Polish: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Portuguese: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Portuguese: “Coro”
- Portuguese: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Quechua: “Coro (Winisuyla)”
- Quechua: “Coro”
- Romanian: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Romanian: “Coro”
- Russian: “Коро (город в Венесуэле)”
- Russian: “Коро (город)”
- Russian: “Коро”
- Russian: “Санта-Ана де Коро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Coro”
- Sinhala: “කොරෝ, වෙනිසියුලාව”
- Sinhala: “කොරෝ”
- Slovak: “Coro”
- Slovenian: “Coro”
- Slovenian: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Mariana”
- Spanish: “Coro (ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Coro (Venezuela)”
- Spanish: “Coro”
- Spanish: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Swedish: “Coro”
- Tamil: “காரோ”
- Tatar: “Коро”
- Telugu: “కోరో”
- Thai: “โคโร”
- Turkish: “Coro”
- Ukrainian: “Коро”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Ана-де-Коро”
- Urdu: “سانتا آنا دے کورو”
- Venetian: “Coro”
- Vietnamese: “Coro, Venezuela”
- Vietnamese: “Coro”
- Vietnamese: “Santa Ana de Coro”
- Volapük: “Coro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Coro”
- “Coro”
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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 “Coro”. Photo: Pedro Marcano, CC BY-SA 3.0.