Central
Aragua
Girardot Municipality

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 include 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 is a historical aviation museum of military and civic aeronautic technology inaugurated on 10 December 1963 and located at the installations of the former Aeropuerto Nacional Florencio Gómez adjacent to the…

Cathedral
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The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral also called Cathedral of Maracay is a Catholic religious building located in the city of Maracay, Aragua state in .

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
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Arabic: “ماراكاي”
  • Aragonese: “Maracay”
  • Armenian: “Մարակայ”
  • Asturian: “Maracay”
  • Aymara: “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: “Maracay”
  • Esperanto: “Marakajo”
  • Finnish: “Maracay”
  • French: “Maracay”
  • Galician: “Maracay”
  • Georgian: “მარაკაი”
  • German: “Maracay”
  • Greek: “Μαρακάι”
  • Gujarati: “મૈરાકે”
  • Hebrew: “מרקאי”
  • Hindi: “मारैके”
  • Hungarian: “Maracay”
  • Indonesian: “Maracay”
  • Irish: “Maracay”
  • Italian: “Maracay”
  • Japanese: “マラカイ”
  • Kannada: “ಮರಾಕೇ”
  • Kazakh: “Маракай”
  • Korean: “마라카이”
  • Latvian: “Marakaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Marakajus”
  • Malay: “Maracay”
  • Marathi: “मारकेय”
  • Moksha: “Маракай”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maracay”
  • Norwegian: “Maracay”
  • Ossetian: “Маракай”
  • Persian: “ماراکای”
  • Polish: “Maracay”
  • Portuguese: “Maracay”
  • Quechua: “Marakay”
  • Romanian: “Maracay”
  • Russian: “Маракай”
  • Scots: “Maracay”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maracay”
  • Silesian: “Maracay”
  • Sinhala: “මරකේ”
  • Sinhala: “මාරකේ, වෙනිසියුලාව”
  • Slovak: “Maracay”
  • Slovenian: “Maracay”
  • Spanish: “Maracay”
  • Swedish: “Maracay”
  • Tamil: “மாராகே”
  • Tatar: “Маракай”
  • Telugu: “మారెకె”
  • Thai: “มาราไกย์”
  • Turkish: “Maracay”
  • Ukrainian: “Маракай”
  • Urdu: “ماراکای”
  • Venetian: “Maracay”
  • Veps: “Marakai”
  • Vietnamese: “Maracay”
  • Volapük: “Maracay”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maracay”

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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 “Maracay”. Photo: Megasuperjorge, CC BY-SA 3.0.