Venezuela
Northwest
Zulia

Maracaibo

Maracaibo is the capital of state in , and is the second largest city in the country after . It has more than 2 million people and it's famous for its typical music, big shopping malls and beautiful parks.
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  • Type: City with 2,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Zulia state, Venezuela
  • Also known as: “Maracaibo, Venezuela”, “Maracaibo, Zulia”, and “Maracaybo”
Photo: Vostrikov, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Pachencho Romero and Sabaneta.

Stadium
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Estadio José Encarnación "Pachencho" Romero is a sports stadium in Maracaibo, capital of the state, in . The stadium holds 40,800 spectators.

Railway station
Photo: Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Wilfredor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-use in Maracaibo, . It is currently used mostly for baseball games and serves as the home of Águilas del Zulia.

Maracaibo

Latitude
10.6498° or 10° 38′ 59″ north
Longitude
-71.6444° or 71° 38′ 40″ west
Population
2,000,000
IATA airport code
MAR
United Nations Location Code
VE MAR
Open location code
772CJ9X4+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4556016892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3633009
Wiki­data ID
Q171632
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Maracaibo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maracaibo”
  • Arabic: “كأس أمريكا الجنوبية 2007”
  • Arabic: “ماراكايبو”
  • Aragonese: “Maracaibo”
  • Aragonese: “Nueva Zamora de Maracaibo”
  • Armenian: “Մարակայբո”
  • Arpitan: “Maracaibo”
  • Asturian: “Maracaibo”
  • Aymara: “Marakaywu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marakaybo”
  • Basque: “Maracaibo”
  • Belarusian: “Маракайба (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Маракайба”
  • Bengali: “মারাকাইবো”
  • Bislama: “Maracaibo”
  • Breton: “Maracaibo”
  • Bulgarian: “Маракаибо”
  • Bulgarian: “Маракайбо”
  • Catalan: “Maracaibo”
  • Cebuano: “Maracaibo”
  • Chechen: “Маракайбо”
  • Chinese: “馬拉開波”
  • Chinese: “马拉开波”
  • Choctaw: “Maracaibo”
  • Chuvash: “Маракайбо”
  • Cornish: “Maracaibo”
  • Corsican: “Maracaibo”
  • Creek: “Maracaibo”
  • Croatian: “Maracaibo”
  • Czech: “Maracaibo”
  • Danish: “Maracaibo”
  • Dutch: “Maracaibo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماراكايبو”
  • Esperanto: “Maracaibo”
  • Esperanto: “Marakaibo”
  • Esperanto: “Marakajbo”
  • Faroese: “Maracaibo”
  • Fijian: “Maracaibo”
  • Finnish: “Maracaibo”
  • French: “Maracaibo”
  • French: “Maracaïbo”
  • Friulian: “Maracaibo”
  • Galician: “Maracaibo”
  • Georgian: “მარაკაიბო”
  • German: “Maracaibo”
  • German: “Neu-Nürnberg”
  • German: “Nueva Zamora de la Laguna de Maracaibo”
  • Greek: “Μαρακαΐμπο”
  • Greek: “Μαρακάιμπο”
  • Gujarati: “મારકાઇબો”
  • Hebrew: “מרקאיבו”
  • Hindi: “माराकाइबो”
  • Hungarian: “Maracaibo”
  • Hunsrik: “Maracaibo”
  • Icelandic: “Maracaibo”
  • Ido: “Maracaibo”
  • Indonesian: “Maracaibo”
  • Interlingua: “Maracaibo”
  • Interlingue: “Maracaibo”
  • Irish: “Maracaibo”
  • Italian: “Maracaibo”
  • Japanese: “マラカイボ”
  • Jutish: “Maracaibo”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Maracaibo”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಕಾಯ್ಬೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Маракайбо”
  • Kirghiz: “Маракайбо”
  • Korean: “마라까이보”
  • Korean: “마라카이보”
  • Kotava: “Maracaibo”
  • Ladin: “Maracaibo”
  • Ladino: “Maracaibo”
  • Latvian: “Marakaibo”
  • Ligurian: “Maracaibo”
  • Limburgan: “Maracaibo”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Maracaibo”
  • Lithuanian: “Maracaibo”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakaibas”
  • Lombard: “Maracaibo”
  • Lower Silesian: “Maracaibo”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Maracaibo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maracaibo”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Maracaibo”
  • Macedonian: “Маракаибо”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Maracaibo”
  • Malay: “Maracaibo”
  • Maltese: “Maracaibo”
  • Manx: “Maracaibo”
  • Marathi: “माराकाईबो”
  • Mirandese: “Maracaibo”
  • Moksha: “Маракайба”
  • Moksha: “Маракайбо”
  • Mongolian: “Маракайбо”
  • Narom: “Maracaibo”
  • Nauru: “Maracaibo”
  • Neapolitan: “Maracaibo”
  • Niuean: “Maracaibo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maracaibo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maracaibo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maracaibo”
  • Norwegian: “Maracaibo”
  • Novial: “Maracaibo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maracaibo”
  • Ossetian: “Маракаибо”
  • Ossetian: “Маракайбо”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰਾਕਾਈਬੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Maracaibo”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Maracaibo”
  • Persian: “ماراکایبو”
  • Picard: “Maracaibo”
  • Piemontese: “Maracaibo”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Maracaibo”
  • Plautdietsch: “Maracaibo”
  • Polish: “Maracaibo”
  • Portuguese: “Maracaibo”
  • Portuguese: “Maracaíbo”
  • Quechua: “Marakaypu”
  • Romanian: “Maracaibo”
  • Romansh: “Maracaibo”
  • Russian: “Маракайбо”
  • Russian: “Марака́йбо”
  • Sardinian: “Maracaibo”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Maracaibo”
  • Scots: “Maracaibo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Maracaibo”
  • Serbian: “Maracaibo”
  • Serbian: “Marakaibo”
  • Serbian: “Маракаибо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maracaibo”
  • Sicilian: “Maracaibo”
  • Silesian: “Maracaibo”
  • Sinhala: “මරකයිබෝ, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Sinhala: “මරකයිබෝ”
  • Slovak: “Maracaibo”
  • Slovenian: “Maracaibo”
  • Spanish: “Marabino”
  • Spanish: “Maracaibianos”
  • Spanish: “Maracaibo”
  • Spanish: “Maracucho”
  • Swahili: “Maracaibo”
  • Swedish: “Maracaibo”
  • Tamil: “மரக்கைபோ”
  • Tatar: “Маракайбо”
  • Telugu: “మరకైబో”
  • Thai: “Maracaibo”
  • Thai: “มาราไกโบ”
  • Turkish: “Maracaibo”
  • Ukrainian: “Маракайбо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Maracaibo”
  • Urdu: “ماراکایبو”
  • Uzbek: “Marakaibo”
  • Venetian: “Maracaibo”
  • Veps: “Marakaibo”
  • Vietnamese: “Maracaibo”
  • Vlaams: “Maracaibo”
  • Volapük: “Maracaibo”
  • Walloon: “Maracaibo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maracaibo”
  • Wayuu: “Marakaaya”
  • Welsh: “Maracaibo”
  • Western Frisian: “Maracaibo”
  • Wu Chinese: “马拉开波”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬拉開波”
  • Zeeuws: “Maracaibo”
  • “Maracaibo”

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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 “Maracaibo”. Photo: Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 3.0.