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Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto is the capital city of Lara and seat of the Iribarren Municipality in Venezuela.

Barquisimeto
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The place

Barquisimeto is the capital city of Lara and seat of the Iribarren Municipality in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region. The city is an important urban, industrial, commercial, musical, and transportational center in the country, recognized as the fourth-largest city by population after Caracas, Maracaibo, and Valencia. Barquisimeto is sometimes referred to as the "Music City of Venezuela" due to the large number of musical institutions there. Gustavo Dudamel, the director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, was born in the city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barquisimeto

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Barquisimeto Cathedral

    Barquisimeto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. It is one of the most modern cathedrals in Latin America, considered original in style.

    1.8 km · Roman Catholic cathedral in Barquisimeto, Venezuela · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Estadio Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez

    Estadio Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez is a multi-use stadium in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for baseball games and serves as the home of Cardenales de Lara.

    2.5 km · multi-use stadium in Barquisimeto, Venezuela · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bararida Zoological and Botanical Park

    The Bararida Zoological and Botanical Park Also Bararida Zoo Is a park, zoo and botanical garden that is located in the city of Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara State, in the South American country of Venezuela. It is a national reference zoo with a staff of 210 workers.

    3.9 km · zoo in Barquisimeto, Venezuela · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Domo Bolivariano

    Domo Bolivariano de Barquisimeto, or simply Domo Bolivariano, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The arena is named in honor of Simón Bolívar.

    1.9 km · national historical monument of Venezuela in Barquisimeto · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Estadio Farid Richa

    The Farid Richa Stadium is a football facility located in the capital city of Lara state, Barquisimeto, in the central-western part of Venezuela. It serves as the home ground for the second-division local football teams Policía de Lara F. C., Unión Lara S. C., and Unión Deportiva Lara.

    2 km · Football soccer stadium. · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Loma de León Natural Monument

    The Loma de León Natural Monument Also Loma de León Is a natural protected area located in the municipality of Iribarren, belonging to the state of Lara, Venezuela. It received the status of national monument on February 2, 1987.

    8.9 km · Venezuelan national monument · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    The Obelisk
  2. 02
    Plaza Bolivar

    What would a Venezuelan city be without one of these?

  3. 03
    Barquisimeto Museum

    09ː00ː17ː00 T-Sat, 10ː00-17ː00 Sun, closed Mon.

  4. 04
    Juares Theatre

    Another city landmark, established in 1905.

  5. 05
    Museo de Ciencias Naturales "La Salle"

    Archaeology, paleontology, natural science exhibits like ammonites from secondary period, mastodon tusks, and megamaterials.

  6. 06
    Cathedral of Barquisimeto

    This very modern looking cathedral was built in 1968 with a roof that takes on the shape of an upside down open flower, with parabolic geometric design.

From Wikivoyage: Barquisimeto, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Temático Bosque Macuto Park
  2. 02
    El Mundo de los Niños

    A water park next to the forest theme park.

From Wikivoyage: Barquisimeto, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Barquisimeto

Airports
Jacinto Lara (BRM), 3 km · Arturo Michelena (VLN), 154 km · Hato (CUR), 240 km
Stations
Jacinto Lara International Airport, 3.5 km
  • Valencia → Barquisimeto
    149 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · $15–21
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  • Maiquetía → Barquisimeto
    269 km · quickest by air, 3h 36m · $110–160
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  • Maracaibo → Barquisimeto
    255 km · quickest by air, 5h 56m · $140–210
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barquisimeto

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barquisimeto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  1. 01
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    894 km
  2. 02
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    990 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

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  4. 04
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,068 km
  5. 05
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,070 km

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