Place:Portuguesa, Venezuela

Watchers
  • no watchers
Larger map


NamePortuguesa
Alt namesEstado Portuguesasource: Wikipedia
Portuguesasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeState
Coordinates9.167°N 69.25°W
Located inVenezuela
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Acarigua
Araure
Biscucuy
Colonia Turén
Guanare ( 1593 - )
Guanarito
Ospino
Píritu
Santa Rosalía
Villa Bruzual
Unknown
Agua Blanca
Aparición
Boconó
Chabasquén
Guerrilandia
Marácas
Morrones
Papelón
Sabana Seca
San Andrés
San Miguel
San Nicolás
Santa Cruz
Tucupido
Turén
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Portuguesa State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Located in the west of the Republic, it is often considered the "breadbasket of Venezuela" for the large amount of agricultural products produced there. The state is bordered by the state of Lara to the north, to the east by Cojedes, to the west by Trujillo and to the south by Barinas.

As of the 2011 census, it had a population of 876,496. The state capital is the city of Guanare.

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Portuguesa State. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Portuguesa%2C_Venezuela"