🇻🇪 Venezuela
Barquisimeto
Barquisimeto is the capital city of Lara and seat of the Iribarren Municipality in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region. The city is an important urban, industrial, commercial, musical, and transportational center in the country, recognized as the fourth-largest city by population after Caracas, Maracaibo, and Valencia. Barquisimeto is sometimes referred to as the "Music City of Venezuela" due to the large number of musical institutions there. Gustavo Dudamel, the director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was born in the city.
- Country
- 🇻🇪 Venezuela
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 1,240,714
- Time zone
- America/Caracas
- Coordinates
- 10.06, -69.36
How far Barquisimeto is from other cities in Venezuela
- Valencia149 km✈ 56 min · 🚗 2 h 29 min
- Maracaibo255 km✈ 1 h 4 min · 🚗 4 h 15 min
- Caracas275 km✈ 1 h 5 min · 🚗 4 h 35 min
- Ciudad Guayana761 km✈ 1 h 41 min · 🚗 12 h 41 min
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