Aragua (state)

::"Other use: Aragua de Maturín and Aragua River."

VenezuelanState New
name = Aragua

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image_coa = Ve)aragua.pngstate_motto = Venezuela's Hearth

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date_creation = 1899
capital = Maracay
area = 7,014
area_percentage = 0,76
area_percentage_rank = 20th
population = 1,665,200
year_estimate = 2007
population_percentage = 6,28
population_percentage_rank = 6th
emblematic_tree = Samán
binomial_name = Pithecellobium saman
ISO_code = VE-D
governor = Didalco Bolívar Graterol
mandate_start = 2004
mandate_end = 2008
website = http://www.aragua.gob.ve
website_name = Gobernación del Estado Aragua
footnotes =

Estado Aragua is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungles and beautiful Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first national park which is called Henri Pittier.

The capital is Maracay.

Aragua State covers a total surface area of 7,014 km² and, based on the 2001 census information, the estimated population of Aragua State in 2007 is 1,665,200 inhabitants.

Aragua was also the name one of the Venezuelan Destroyer Class, it was the leader of 3st Destroyer Division and the first one of her own sub-class, a British built for Venezuela naval forces in the 50's.

Geography

Aragua borders the Caribbean Sea to the north, with its coastline backed by the fast-rising central Cordillera mountain range. Codazzi Peak reaches over 2400m above sea level. Much of the rest of the state is made up of fertile valleys used for intensive agriculture, apart from in the extreme south where the flats of the central Llanos region begin. On the western border is Lake Valencia.

The main rivers in the state are the Aragua, the Guárico, the Limón, the Tuy, the Pao and the Turmero. They flow into the Caribbean Sea, Lake Valencia, or feed the vast Orinoco River network. The Camatagua reservoir is one of the main reservoirs supplying Caracas.

Municipalities and municipal seats

Aragua is conformed by eighteen municipalities ("municipios"):

# Bolívar (San Mateo)
# Camatagua (Camatagua)
# Francisco Linares Alcántara (Santa Rita)
# Girardot (Maracay)
# José Angel Lamas (Santa Cruz)
# José Félix Ribas (La Victoria)
# José Rafael Revenga (El Consejo)
# Libertador (Palo Negro)
# Mario Briceño Iragorry (El Limon)
# Ocumare de la Costa de Oro (Ocumare de la Costa)
# San Casimiro (San Casimiro)
# San Sebastián (San Sebastián)
# Santiago Mariño (Turmero)
# Santos Michelena (Las Tejerías)
# Sucre (Cagua)
# Tovar (Colonia Tovar)
# Urdaneta (Barbacoas)
# Zamora (Villa de Cura)

See also

* States of Venezuela

External links

* [http://www.mcy.com.ve Ciudad Maracay. Information about Maracay and Aragua State]