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Mérida

The State of Mérida commonly known simply as Mérida is one of the 23 states of . The state capital is , in the . Located in the Western , Mérida State covers a total surface area of 11,300 square kilometres, making it the fifteenth-largest in Venezuela.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Mérida and Santo Domingo.

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the capital of 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.

is a city in Mérida, in the Venezuela Andean Mountains and belong to the region called Paramo in Spanish because of the cold wind and high altitude full of Frailejones.

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, Alberto Adriani Municipality, is a city in Mérida.

Mérida

Latitude of center
8.7774° or 8° 46′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
-71.1565° or 71° 9′ 24″ west
Population
844,000
Elevation
2,933 metres (9,623 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 313466830
Geo­Names ID
3632306
Wiki­data ID
Q165582
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Mérida” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماردا”
  • Arabic: “ماردة”
  • Arabic: “ولاية ماردة”
  • Aragonese: “estato Merida”
  • Aragonese: “Estau Mérida”
  • Aragonese: “Merida”
  • Asturian: “estáu Mérida”
  • Asturian: “Mérida”
  • Basque: “Mérida”
  • Belarusian: “Мерыда”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрыда”
  • Belarusian: “штат Мерыда”
  • Belarusian: “штат Мэрыда”
  • Bengali: “মেরিদা”
  • Breton: “Mérida”
  • Bulgarian: “Мерида”
  • Catalan: “estat Mérida”
  • Catalan: “Estat Mérida”
  • Catalan: “Mérida”
  • Cebuano: “estado Mérida”
  • Cebuano: “Estado Mérida”
  • Cebuano: “Mérida”
  • Chavacano: “estado Mérida”
  • Chavacano: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Chinese: “梅里达州”
  • Cornish: “Mérida”
  • Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Czech: “Mérida (stát)”
  • Czech: “Mérida”
  • Danish: “Mérida”
  • Dutch: “Mérida”
  • Esperanto: “Mérida”
  • Esperanto: “Merido”
  • Estonian: “Mérida osariik”
  • Estonian: “Mérida”
  • Finnish: “Mérida”
  • French: “Etat de Mérida”
  • French: “État de Mérida”
  • French: “Mérida”
  • Georgian: “მერიდის შტატი”
  • Georgian: “მერიდის”
  • German: “Mérida”
  • Greek: “Μέριντα”
  • Gujarati: “મેરિડા”
  • Hausa: “Mérida (jiha)”
  • Hausa: “Mérida”
  • Hebrew: “מרידה”
  • Hindi: “मेरिडा”
  • Indonesian: “Mérida”
  • Italian: “Mérida”
  • Japanese: “メリダ州”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆರಿಡಾ”
  • Korean: “메리다주”
  • Ladino: “Merida”
  • Ladino: “Mérida”
  • Latvian: “Merida”
  • Lithuanian: “Merida”
  • Macedonian: “Мерида”
  • Malay: “Merida”
  • Marathi: “मेरिडा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mérida”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mérida (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delstaten Mérida i Venezuela”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mérida”
  • Norwegian: “Mérida”
  • Ossetian: “Меридæ”
  • Persian: “ایالت مریدا”
  • Persian: “مریدا”
  • Polish: “Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Estado Mérida”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Portuguese: “Mérida”
  • Quechua: “Mérida suyu”
  • Quechua: “Mérida”
  • Romanian: “Mérida”
  • Russian: “Мерида”
  • Scots: “Mérida”
  • Serbian: “Мерида”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mérida”
  • Sinhala: “මෙරිඩා ප්‍රාන්තය, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Sinhala: “මෙරිඩා”
  • Slovenian: “Mérida”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مریدا ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مریدا”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Estado Merida”
  • Spanish: “Estado Mérida”
  • Spanish: “Mérida, Venezuela”
  • Spanish: “Merida”
  • Spanish: “Mérida”
  • Swedish: “Mérida”
  • Tamil: “மேரீடா”
  • Telugu: “మెరిడా”
  • Thai: “รัฐเมริดา”
  • Turkish: “Mérida”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерида”
  • Urdu: “میریدا”
  • Vietnamese: “Mérida”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mérida”
  • Wayuu: “Meerida”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ مریدا”
  • Western Panjabi: “مریدا”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅里达州”
  • “Mérida”

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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 “Mérida”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.