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San Carlos de la Barra Castle was built in the 17th century by the Spanish to protect Maracaibo from pirate attacks. Zulia State (Spanish: Estado Zulia, IPA: [esˈtaðo ˈsulja]; Wayuu: Mma’ipakat Suuria) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest ...
San Carlos de la Barra Castle, Spanish fort guarding the entry to Lake Maracaibo. The Dutch corsair Henrik de Gerard plundered Maracaibo in 1614, and in 1642 the city was attacked by the British pirate William Jackson. In 1667, l'Olonnais with a fleet of eight ships and a crew of six hundred pirates sacked Maracaibo and Gibraltar.
San Francisco is a municipality in the metropolitan area of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city. San Francisco covers an area of 185 square kilometres (71 sq mi) [ 1 ] and recorded a population of 446,757 in the 2011 Venezuelan census.
List of metropolitan areas in Venezuela ... Caracas, Petare, Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo: Capital ... San Francisco, Jesús Enrique Lossada, Mara, La Cañada de ...
Lake Maracaibo (Spanish: Lago de Maracaibo) is located in northwestern Venezuela, between the states of Zulia, Trujillo, and Mérida. While Maracaibo is commonly referred to as a lake, its current hydrological characteristics may better classify it as estuary and/or semi-enclosed bay connected to the Gulf of Venezuela .
Jesús María Semprún (Casigua el Cubo) La Cañada de Urdaneta (Concepción) Lagunillas (Ciudad Ojeda) Machiques de Perijá ; Mara (San Rafael del Moján) Maracaibo ; Miranda (Los Puertos de Altagracia) Páez ; Rosario de Perijá (La Villa del Rosario) San Francisco (San Francisco) Santa Rita ; Simón Bolívar
The Regions of Venezuela (Spanish: Regiones de Venezuela) are two groupings of Venezuela's states, capital district, and federal dependencies.Venezuela's natural regions (Regiones naturales) are divided by natural geography, and administrative regions (Regiones político-administrativas) are delineated for the purpose of regional administration.
Jesús Enrique Lossada lies northwest of Lake Maracaibo in the Maracaibo Basin. The municipality borders the municipalities of Mara to the north, Maracaibo and San Francisco to the east, La Cañada de Urdaneta to the southeast, and Rosario de Perijá to the southwest. [4] To the west it borders the Colombian departments of Cesar and La Guajira.