Place:Monagas, Venezuela

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NameMonagas
Alt namesEstado Monagassource: Wikipedia
Monagassource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeState
Coordinates9.333°N 63°W
Located inVenezuela
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Aragua de Maturín
Barrancas
Caicara
Caripe
Caripito
Jusepín
Maturín ( 1710 - )
Punta de Mata
Quiriquire
Temblador
Uracoa
Unknown
Aguasay
Areo
Chaguaramal
Guanaguana
Puceres
San Antonio de Maturín
San Félix
San José
Santa Bárbara
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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

Monagas State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.

Monagas State covers a total surface area of and, as of the 2011 census, had a population of 905,443.

Monagas State is surrounded by Sucre State in the north, Anzoátegui State in the west and south, Bolívar State in the south, Delta Amacuro State in the south and east and the Paria Gulf in the northeast.

The state is named after the general and president of Venezuela José Tadeo Monagas, native from this state, and his brother and fellow president José Gregorio Monagas, native from the neighbor Anzoátegui State.

The capital of the state is Maturín.

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