Porlamar
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Porlamar () is the most populated city, major seaport and major center in the state of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. It is situated on the southern coast of Margarita Island, one of three islands in the Caribbean Sea off the South American mainland which make up the state of Nueva Esparta, at a distance of from the state capital of La Asunción. Porlamar is the capital of Mariño, the most populous of the eleven municipalities into which the state of Nueva Esparta is divided.
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Place details
- Locality
- Porlamar
- Region
- Nueva Esparta
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 216,234
- Timezone
- America/Caracas
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Porlamar
- Settlement.nicknames
- Villa del Espíritu Santo () Pueblo de La Mar ()
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hotel Wyndham Concorde Resort Isla de Margarita, Porlamar Nueva Esparta, Venezuela 10.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 280
- Settlement.image_caption
- Panoramic
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandera santiagomarino.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Venezuela
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Counties
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Demonym
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Venezuela
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Nueva Esparta
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mariño
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Porlamarense
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Eneas González
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Demonym
- porlamarense
- Country
- Venezuela
- Located in
- Municipio Mariño
- Population
- 120924
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Body of water
- Caribbean Sea
- Capital of
- Municipio Mariño
- Location
- Margarita Island
- Official website
- maneiro-nuevaesparta.gob.ve
- Image
- Porlamar.JPG
- Dialing code
- 295
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- Commons category
- Porlamar
- topic's main category
- Category:Porlamar
- postal code
- 6301
- inception
- 1553-03-26
- P8168
- Kurt Mehlhorn
- P12749
- Udmurtia
via Wikidata · CC0
Travel guide
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thumb|Typical colonial neighborhood in Porlamar
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Boulevard Guevara and Boulevard Gomez.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Population
- Climate
- Twin cities
- Notable people
- References
- Works cited
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- External links
Porlamar () is the most populated city, major seaport and major center in the state of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. It is situated on the southern coast of Margarita Island, one of three islands in the Caribbean Sea off the South American mainland which make up the state of Nueva Esparta, at a distance of from the state capital of La Asunción. Porlamar is the capital of Mariño, the most populous of the eleven municipalities into which the state of Nueva Esparta is divided.
==History== Downtown Porlamar.|thumb Caribbean Sea in Porlamar.|thumb
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Porlamar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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