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Mérida
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Mérida

Mérida the capital of Mérida State, is located in , at the foot of the , 15 kilometers from Venezuela's highest point. It is the centre for outdoor activities in Venezuela.
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  • Type: City with 250,000 residents
  • Description: city in Venezuela
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Mérida”, “Merida”, “Mèrida”, “Mérida, Mérida”, “Mérida, Venezuela”, “Santiago de los Caballeros de Merida”, and “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alberto Carnevalli Airport and Heladería Coromoto.

Aerodrome
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is an airport located 3 km southwest of downtown Mérida, the capital of in . It is named in honor of Alberto Carnevalli, a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist.

Ice cream parlor
, commonly known as Coromoto, is an ice cream parlor in Merida, , known for offering 860 flavors, a former Guinness World Record.

Photo: Venlur, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception or Metropolitan Cathedral of Mérida is a religious building of the Roman Catholic church located in the city of Mérida in western , in the state of the same name, part of the Andean region in that country.

Mérida

Latitude
8.5817° or 8° 34′ 54″ north
Longitude
-71.1658° or 71° 9′ 57″ west
Population
250,000
Elevation
1,389 metres (4,557 feet)
IATA airport code
MRD
United Nations Location Code
VE MRD
Open location code
67WCHRJM+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 268928372
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3632308
Wiki­data ID
Q23551
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Mérida” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мерида”
  • Afrikaans: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Afrikaans: “Mérida”
  • Albanian: “Mérida”
  • Amharic: “መሪዳ፣ መሪዳ”
  • Amharic: “ሜሪዳ፣ ቬኔዝዌላ”
  • Arabic: “ماردة”
  • Aragonese: “Merida”
  • Aragonese: “Mérida”
  • Aragonese: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Armenian: “Մերիդա”
  • Asturian: “Mérida”
  • Aymara: “Mérida, Winïxwila”
  • Azerbaijani: “Merida”
  • Bashkir: “Мерида”
  • Basque: “Mérida”
  • Bavarian: “Mérida”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда (Венесуэла)”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрыда”
  • Bengali: “মেরিডা”
  • Bislama: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Bosnian: “Mérida”
  • Breton: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерида”
  • Catalan: “Mérida”
  • Catalan: “Mèrida”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida (kapital sa estado sa Venezuela)”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida”
  • Cheyenne: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “梅里達”
  • Chinese: “梅里達市”
  • Chuvash: “Мерида, Венесуэла”
  • Chuvash: “Мерида”
  • Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Croatian: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Czech: “Mérida”
  • Danish: “Mérida”
  • Dutch: “Merida”
  • Dutch: “Mérida”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارده”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميريدا ڤينيزويلا”
  • Esperanto: “Merido”
  • Estonian: “Mérida”
  • Estonian: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Merida”
  • Estonian: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Extremaduran: “Méria”
  • Extremaduran: “Mérida”
  • Finnish: “Mérida”
  • Finnish: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • French: “Merida”
  • French: “Mérida”
  • Friulian: “Mérida”
  • Gagauz: “Mérida”
  • Galician: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Galician: “Mérida”
  • Georgian: “მერიდა”
  • German: “Mérida”
  • German: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Greek: “Μέριδα”
  • Gujarati: “મેરિડા”
  • Haitian: “Mérida, Venezwela”
  • Haitian: “Mérida”
  • Hebrew: “מרידה”
  • Hindi: “मेरिडा”
  • Hungarian: “Mérida”
  • Ido: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Ido: “Mérida”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida”
  • Interlingua: “Mérida”
  • Irish: “Mérida”
  • Italian: “Mérida”
  • Japanese: “メリダ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆರಿಡಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Мерида”
  • Kölsch: “Mérida”
  • Korean: “메리다”
  • Ladino: “Mérida”
  • Latin: “Emerita”
  • Latvian: “Merida”
  • Ligurian: “Mérida”
  • Lithuanian: “Merida”
  • Lombard: “Mérida”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Mérida”
  • Macedonian: “Emerita”
  • Macedonian: “Méria”
  • Macedonian: “Merida”
  • Macedonian: “Mérida”
  • Macedonian: “Merido”
  • Macedonian: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Macedonian: “Μέριδα”
  • Macedonian: “Мерида”
  • Macedonian: “Меріда”
  • Macedonian: “Мерыда”
  • Macedonian: “Мэрыда”
  • Macedonian: “მერიდა”
  • Macedonian: “Մերիդա”
  • Macedonian: “מערידא”
  • Macedonian: “מרידה”
  • Macedonian: “ماردة”
  • Macedonian: “مریدا”
  • Macedonian: “ሜሪዳ፣ ቬኔዝዌላ”
  • Macedonian: “메리다”
  • Macedonian: “メリダ”
  • Macedonian: “梅里達市”
  • Malay: “Merida”
  • Maltese: “Merida”
  • Maltese: “Mérida”
  • Marathi: “मेरिडा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Mirandese: “Mérida”
  • Moksha: “Мерида”
  • Moksha: “Мэрида”
  • Narom: “Mérida”
  • Northern Sami: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Mérida i Venezuela”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian: “Mérida”
  • Novial: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mérida”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Merida”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mérida”
  • Ossetian: “Меридæ”
  • Papiamento: “Mérida”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Mérida”
  • Persian: “مریدا، مریدا”
  • Persian: “مریدا”
  • Piemontese: “Mérida”
  • Polish: “Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Portuguese: “Merida”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Quechua: “Mérida”
  • Romanian: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Romanian: “Merida”
  • Romanian: “Mérida”
  • Romansh: “Mérida”
  • Russian: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Russian: “Мерида”
  • Sardinian: “Mérida”
  • Scots: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Scots: “Mérida”
  • Scots: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Serbian: “Мерида”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Merida”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Sicilian: “Mérida”
  • Silesian: “Mérida”
  • Sinhala: “මේරීඩා, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Sinhala: “මේරීඩා”
  • Slovak: “Mérida”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida”
  • Spanish: “Merida”
  • Spanish: “Mérida”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Merida”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de los Caballeros de Mérida”
  • Swahili: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Swahili: “Mérida”
  • Swedish: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Swedish: “Mérida”
  • Swiss German: “Mérida”
  • Tamil: “மெறிடா”
  • Tatar: “Мерида”
  • Telugu: “మెరిడా”
  • Thai: “เมริดา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mérida”
  • Turkish: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Turkish: “Merida”
  • Turkish: “Mérida”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерида”
  • Ukrainian: “Меріда”
  • Urdu: “میریدا، میریدا”
  • Urdu: “میریدا”
  • Venetian: “Mérida”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida”
  • Volapük: “Mérida”
  • Walloon: “Mérida, Venezwela”
  • Walloon: “Mérida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida, Mérida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida”
  • Wayuu: “Meriida, Wenesueela”
  • Wolof: “Mérida, Benesuwela”
  • Wolof: “Mérida”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里达 (委内瑞拉)”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里达（委内瑞拉）”
  • Yiddish: “מערידא, ווענעזועלע”
  • Yiddish: “מערידא”
  • Yoruba: “Mérida”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅里達市”
  • “Mérida”

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