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Barquisimeto

Venezuela

Watercolour of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The "City of Twilights" (Ciudad de los Crepúsculos) and Musical Capital of Venezuela, with Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Flor de Venezuela.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Flor de Venezuela; Obelisk of Barquisimeto; Sanctuary of the Divina Pastora; Turbio River; Republican; Andes; Marian
Viewpoint
Favor the classic elevated viewpoint from Santa Rosa or the plateau bluff looking across the Valle del Turbio toward the city skyline, showing sugarcane fields and trees in the foreground, the hyperbolic white silhouette of the Cathedral and the Flor de Venezuela in the middle-ground, and the blue-gray Andean ridges rising in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the sugarcane fields of the Valle del Turbio, hillside woods, and apamate trees.
Guarded against
Not Caracas, Maracaibo, or Valencia
Population1,240,714Wikidata: 1,059,092
Coordinates10.06°N, 69.36°W
Elevation566 m
Area2,760 km²
Time zoneAmerica/CaracasUTC−4
Solar noon12:37clock runs 0.6 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Barquisimeto and you surface nearest to Pacitan, Indonesia — 214 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

ValenciaVE149 km
MaracaiboVE254 km
CaracasVE276 km
BarranquillaCO601 km
BogotáCO799 km
MedellínCO804 km
Saint George'sGD859 km
Port of SpainTT860 km

Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Barquisimeto inside this atlas.

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