ARAGUA (STATE)

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::''Other use: Aragua de Maturín and Aragua River.''
Municipalities of Aragua

'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.

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Geography
Municipalities and municipal seats
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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''):
'Municipality' 'Seat'
1. Bolívar San Mateo
2. Camatagua Camatagua
3. Francisco Linares Alcántara Santa Rita
4. Girardot Maracay
5. José Angel Lamas Santa Cruz
6. José Félix Ribas La Victoria
7. José Rafael Revenga El Consejo
8. Libertador Palo Negro
9. Mario Briceño Iragorry El Limon
10. Ocumare de la Costa de Oro Ocumare de la Costa
11. San Casimiro San Casimiro
12. San Sebastián San Sebastián
13. Santiago Mariño Turmero
14. Santos Michelena Las Tejerías
15. Sucre Cagua
16. Tovar Colonia Tovar
17. Urdaneta Barbacoas
18. Zamora Villa de Cura

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Ciudad Maracay. Information about Maracay and Aragua State

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