Guacara is a city in
Carabobo State
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in ...
, seat of
Guacara Municipality.
It was officially founded 1624, although it was already a settlement of indigenous people. It has an estimated population for July 2009 of 178,000 inhabitants. It is located northeast of
Lake Valencia and has a river, the
Vigirima River, which empties into the lake. It is connected to the Caracas-Valencia motorway and is 12 km from the city of
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...
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Cities in Carabobo
Populated places established in 1624
1624 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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