Calabozo
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Place details
- Locality
- Calabozo
- Region
- Guárico
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 168,605
- Timezone
- America/Caracas
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.name
- Calabozo
- Settlement.official_name
- Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo
- Settlement.image_seal
- Bandera_Municipio_Francisco_de_Miranda_(Guárico).svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Armas de La Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo.jpg
- Settlement.nickname
- The Agro-industrial Capital
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Venezuela
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Venezuela
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Guárico
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Francisco de Miranda Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1 February 1724 by Bartolomé de San Miguel y Fray Salvador de Cádiz
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 52
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 105
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Country
- Venezuela
- Located in
- Municipio Francisco de Miranda
- Population
- 168605
- Area
- 138
- Elevation
- 105
- Body of water
- Guárico River
- Image
- Plazabolivardclbz.JPG
- Dialing code
- 0246
- Patron saint
- All Saints' Day
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- Commons category
- Calabozo
- Commons gallery
- Calabozo
- topic's main category
- Category:Calabozo
- inception
- 1724-02-01
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Toponymy
- History
- Foundation and Early Events
- Colonization
- Geography
- Climate
- Economy
- Industry
- Agriculture
- Livestock Farming
- Sites of interest
- Notable people
- References
- Sources
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Calabozo, officially Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo, is a city in Venezuela located in Guárico state, capital of the Francisco de Miranda Municipality and former capital of the state. It has a population of 168,605, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE) in 2020. It is located in the center-west of Guárico state, and is one of the main rice producers in the country. In addition, it has the largest irrigation system in Venezuela.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calabozo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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