City
Barinas
Barinas is a city in western Venezuela and capital of the state of the same name, in the plains on the banks of the Santo Domingo River, being the main economic and cultural center of the region.
Estado: Barinas
Barinas
Barinas is one of the twenty-three states that, together with the Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, make up the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Its capital is the homonymous city of Barinas. It is part of the southwestern part of the country and occupies a large part of the western plains on the left bank of the Apure River, as well as a large part of the Andean Piedemonte mountain range, in the eastern part of the Mérida mountain range. Politically and administratively, it is part of the Andes and Los Llanos region, bordered to the north by the states of Cojedes, Portuguesa and Trujillo; to the east by the state of Guárico; to the south by the state of Apure and to the west by the states of Mérida and Táchira. With 35,200 km² it is the eighth largest state in terms of extension, and with an estimated 916,125 inhabitants – and therefore a population density of 37.3 inhabitants/km² – it is the eleventh in terms of population and the seventeenth in terms of population density. It is an important economic center of the Venezuelan plains, with an important livestock and oil industry.