Elorza
Sign in to saveElorza is a town in the Apure State in Venezuela. Elorza is on the region of the Venezuelan Llanos and it had 26.800 inhabitants as of 2012. It is the capital of the Rómulo Gallegos Municipality. The current mayor is Solfreddy Solorzano.
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Place details
- Locality
- Elorza
- Region
- Apure
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 27,795
- Timezone
- America/Caracas
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Elorza
- Country
- Venezuela
- Located in
- Municipio Rómulo Gallegos
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 26800
- Elevation
- 45
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Body of water
- Arauca River
- Capital of
- Municipio Rómulo Gallegos
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- postal code
- 7011
- native label
- Elorza
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Elorza is a town in the Apure State in Venezuela. Elorza is on the region of the Venezuelan Llanos and it had 26.800 inhabitants as of 2012. It is the capital of the Rómulo Gallegos Municipality. The current mayor is Solfreddy Solorzano.
This town had shared its urban area with the neighboring Colombia until the government of Eleazar López Contreras. Back then the Venezuelan part was called Elorza, honoring the Venezuelan hero Andrés Elorza, and the Colombian part was called El Viento (The Wind)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elorza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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