Place:Aragua, Venezuela

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Place Information
Name
Aragua
Alternate names
Aragua     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Estado Aragua     (Wikipedia)
Type
State
Coordinates
10.0°N 67.167°W
Located in
Venezuela
Contained Places

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Inhabited place
Aragua
Cagua
Colonia Tovar
La Victoria
Maracay
Palo Negro
San Mateo
San Sebastián
Villa de Cura
Unknown
Barbacoas
Camatagua
Carmen de Cura
Choroní
El Consejo
Las Tejerías
Ocumare de la Costa
San Casimiro
San Francisco de Cara
Santa Cruz
Taguay
Turmero
Valle Morín
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

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.

Aragua was also the name one of the Venezuelan Destroyer Class, it was the leader of 3st Destroyer Division and the first one of her own sub-class, a British built for Venezuela naval forces in the 50's.

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