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Barquisimeto
City in Lara, Venezuela

Barquisimeto

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

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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.

Get in

Getting to Barquisimeto

Connecting from Caracas Barquisimeto has a good system of buses that connect to Caracas.

See

Worth seeing

  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.

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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rjcastillo (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikimedia Commons.