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Venezuelans from Yaracuy State (reloaded)
Location of Yaracuy state within the Venezuelan territory:
Map of the different municipalities of the state, in case somebody is interested to look up the exact location of pics and videos:
State flag:
State coat of arms:
Relief maps of the state. I didn't know which one was better. One of them shows more details, including state roads and populations, but the other marks better and more sharply the relief details. So I posted them both. The area, in the very north of the state, marked with vertical lines in the first relief map, is an area in dispute with the neighboring northern state of Falcon:
Area: 7,100 km2 (2,700 sq mi)
Population: 785,125 inhabitants (2015 census)
Average altitude: 267 meters above sea level
Capital: San Felipe (220,786 inhabitants, 250 meters above sea level)
Yaracuy state is located in the Venezuelan central western region. It limits to the north with Falcon, to the south with Cojedes, to the east with Carabobo, and to the west with Lara. Is in the area of Venezuela where the Andes range ends and the coastal range begins. It is split between two main mountain systems, the sierra de Aroa in the West/Northwest (which is a branch of the sistema Coriano, a mountain system consistent in several small mountain ranges that is mostly split between the states of Lara and Falcon, but this sierra in Yaracuy is also part of it), and the Nirgua massif, or sierra de Nirgua (which is the westernmost end of the coastal range that comes from Miranda, Aragua and Carabobo) in the southeast. In between lies the agricultural land drained by the Yaracuy River. Most cities and towns are in this valley, including its capital San Felipe. There is a third mountain range, Bobare, in the very northwest, which is also part of the corian system, with the Aroa river valley between the range of Bobare and the Aroa range.
The economy of Yaracuy is mostly agricultural (sugar cane, corn, cattle raising). Some manufacturing can be found in Yaritagua area and Chivacoa (southwestern parts close to Barquisimeto (Lara)), usually in agribusiness.
Relief (from wikipedia):
The very northernmost/northeastern lowlands of the state (marked in a more intense green color on the relief maps) are the most heavily African parts of the state (municipality of Veroes, and I think Manuel Monge and Bolivar too, but not very sure), but as you move south, the population turns more into a triracial/mestizo mix very similar to the triracial/mestizo mix that we have seen in the interior parts of Aragua, Carabobo, and the Tuy Valley in Miranda.The Yaracuy state relief is extremely diverse, presenting an alternation of valleys, plains, depressions, foothills and mountains (65% of the territory). It corresponds to the sector where the Coordillera de los Andes ends, and the Coordillera de la Costa begins, a sector that is occupied by three well-differentiated formations, the Macizo de Nirgua, the Sierra de Aroa and that of Bobare, the three separated from each other by the Yaracuy Turbio depression and the Aroa River Valley.
The Nirgua Massif formed by a group of foothills that are linked to the coastal range, has its culminating point at Cerro la Copa (1810 m). The Sierra de Aroa, located in the central part and oriented in a southwest–northeast direction, divides the two main depressions and has its highest point at Cerro el Tigre (1780 m). The Sierra de Bobare separates Yaracuy from Falcón.
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