Maracay

Maracay is the capital of Aragua state in . Famous for being called the Garden City, for its large amount of vegetation. It has several tourist attractions such as the famous Choroní town, monuments, museums, and parks like the Henri Pittier National Park.
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Aeronautics Museum of Maracay and Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Maracay.

Museum
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Venezuelan Air Force's Museo Aeronáutico de Maracay…

Cathedral
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The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral also called…

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Maracay

Latitude
10.2375° or 10° 14′ 15″ north
Longitude
-67.589° or 67° 35′ 21″ west
Population
1,430,000
Elevation
553 metres (1,814 feet)
IATA airport code
MYC
UN/LOCODE
VE MYC
Open location code
772J6CQ6+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 333000089
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3632998
Wiki­data ID
Q333928
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Maracay” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maracay”
  • Albanian: “Maracay”
  • Amharic: “ማራካይ”
  • Arabic: “ماراكاي”
  • Aragonese: “Maracay”
  • Armenian: “Մարակայ”
  • Asturian: “Maracay”
  • Aymara: “Marakay”
  • Azerbaijani: “Marakay”
  • Basque: “Maracay”
  • Belarusian: “Маракай”
  • Bengali: “মারাকাই”
  • Bulgarian: “Маракай”
  • Catalan: “Maracay”
  • Cebuano: “Maracay”
  • Chinese: “馬拉凱”
  • Chinese: “马拉凯”
  • Chuvash: “Маракай”
  • Czech: “Maracay”
  • Danish: “Maracay”
  • Dutch: “Maracay”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماراكاى”
  • Esperanto: “Marakajo”
  • Finnish: “Maracay”
  • French: “Maracay”
  • Galician: “Maracay”
  • Georgian: “მარაკაი”
  • German: “Maracay”
  • Greek: “Μαρακάι”
  • Gujarati: “મૈરાકે”
  • Hausa: “Maracay”
  • Hebrew: “מרקאי”
  • Hindi: “मारकाय”
  • Hindi: “माराकाय”
  • Hungarian: “Maracay”
  • Indonesian: “Maracay”
  • Irish: “Maracay”
  • Italian: “Maracay”
  • Japanese: “マラカイ”
  • Javanese: “Maracay”
  • Kannada: “ಮರಾಕೇ”
  • Kazakh: “Маракай”
  • Kirghiz: “Маракай”
  • Korean: “마라카이”
  • Latvian: “Marakaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakajus”
  • Malay: “Maracay”
  • Marathi: “मारकेय”
  • Moksha: “Маракай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maracay”
  • Norwegian: “Maracay”
  • Oromo: “Maracay”
  • Ossetian: “Маракай”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰਾਕਾਈ”
  • Persian: “ماراکای”
  • Polish: “Maracay”
  • Portuguese: “Maracay”
  • Pushto: “ماراكاي”
  • Quechua: “Marakay”
  • Romanian: “Maracay”
  • Russian: “Маракай”
  • Scots: “Maracay”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maracay”
  • Silesian: “Maracay”
  • Sinhala: “මරකේ”
  • Sinhala: “මාරකේ, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Slovak: “Maracay”
  • Slovenian: “Maracay”
  • Somali: “Maracay”
  • Spanish: “Maracay”
  • Swahili: “Maracay”
  • Swedish: “Maracay”
  • Tajik: “Маракай”
  • Tamil: “மாராகே”
  • Tatar: “Маракай”
  • Telugu: “మారెకె”
  • Thai: “มาราไกย์”
  • Turkish: “Maracay”
  • Ukrainian: “Маракай”
  • Urdu: “ماراکای”
  • Uzbek: “Marakay”
  • Venetian: “Maracay”
  • Veps: “Marakai”
  • Vietnamese: “Maracay”
  • Volapük: “Maracay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maracay”

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