The 40th edition of the annual

Vuelta a Venezuela The Vuelta a Venezuela () is a men's multi-day road cycling race held annually in Venezuela. Between, 2005 and 2019 and 2021 and 2022, the race carried a UCI rating of 2.2 and was part of the UCI America Tour, which is one of six UCI Contin ...

was held from September 8 to September 21, 2003. The stage race started in

Tucupita Tucupita () is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro. Geography Delta Amacuro consists almost entirely of the swampy Orinoco River River delta, delta. Tucupita is hot and humid, and lies well into the delta on the Caño Mana ...

, and ended in

San Felipe, Yaracuy San Felipe () is the capital city of Yaracuy, Venezuela. San Felipe is located in the Central-Western Region, Venezuela. The city is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of Venezuela. San Felipe is the seat of the ...

Stages

2003-09-08: Tucupita Circuito (93 km)

2003-09-09:
Tucupita Tucupita () is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro. Geography Delta Amacuro consists almost entirely of the swampy Orinoco River River delta, delta. Tucupita is hot and humid, and lies well into the delta on the Caño Mana ...
—
Maturín Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...
(191.4 km)

2003-09-10: Punta de Mata — Pariaguán (196.6 km)

2003-09-11: Pariaguán —
Valle de la Pascua Valle de la Pascua is the capital city of the autonomous municipality of Leonardo Infante, Guárico, Venezuela . The city is located in the central plains of Venezuela and was founded on February 25, 1785, by Father Mariano Martí. Along with Z ...
(165.4 km)

2003-09-12:
Valle de la Pascua Valle de la Pascua is the capital city of the autonomous municipality of Leonardo Infante, Guárico, Venezuela . The city is located in the central plains of Venezuela and was founded on February 25, 1785, by Father Mariano Martí. Along with Z ...
— El Socorro (38.6 km)

2003-09-12: Valle de la Pascua Circuito (73 km)

2003-09-13: El Sombrero —
Maracay Maracay () is a city in north-central Venezuela, near the Caribbean coast, and is the capital and most important city of the state of Aragua. Most of it falls under the jurisdiction of Girardot Municipality. The population of Maracay and its ...
(159 km)

2003-09-14: Valencia Circuito (78 km)

2003-09-14:
Los Guayos Los Guayos is a town in Carabobo State, Venezuela, northwest of the Valencia Lake. It is the capital of the Los Guayos Municipality and is part of Valencia's metropolitan area. Etymology Los Guayos owes its name to a phonetic alteration of th ...
— Tinaco (99.7 km)

2003-09-15: San Carlos de Austria —
Guanare Guanare () is the capital of Portuguesa State, Venezuela. It is where la Virgen de Coromoto is said to have appeared to a Coromoto Indian. Guanare was founded on 3 November 1591 by João Fernandes de Leão Pacheco (1543–1593), a Portuguese ...
(164.2 km)

2003-09-16: Socopó — San Cristóbal (210.2 km)

2003-09-17:
La Fría La Fría is a town in Táchira, Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, is ...
— Santa Cruz de Mora (131.4 km)

2003-09-18:
El Vigía The Alberto Adriani Municipality () is one of the 23 municipalities () that makes up the Venezuelan state of Mérida and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a popula ...
— El Dividive (163.1 km)

2003-09-19: El Dividive —
Carora The City of Carora, commonly called Carora City (in Spanish, Ciudad de Carora), is a city in Lara State, Venezuela, on the Morere River, a branch of the Tocuyo River. It is about 54 miles southwest of Barquisimeto. History Carora City was found ...
(140.7 km)

2003-09-20:
Carora The City of Carora, commonly called Carora City (in Spanish, Ciudad de Carora), is a city in Lara State, Venezuela, on the Morere River, a branch of the Tocuyo River. It is about 54 miles southwest of Barquisimeto. History Carora City was found ...
— San Pablo de Yaracuy (179.3 km)

2003-09-21: San Felipe Circuito (129 km)

Final classification

References

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Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

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