Turmero (Aragua, Venezuela)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Turmero (Aragua, Venezuela)
Other forms of name
nnaa Turmero, Venezuela (Aragua)
Coordinates
-67.47527778 -67.47527778 10.22833333 10.22833333 (gooearth )
Associated country
Venezuela
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 140713590
Wikidata: Q997084
Library of congress: n 80013940
Sources of Information
  • BGN request 12/20/79(Turmero, Venezuela, State of Aragua, ppl., 10°14ʹN 67°29ʹW)
  • Pacheco Miranda, A. Turmero, tierra mia, 1978 or 1979 (subj.)t.p. (Turmero) p. 3 (Venezuela, Aragua)
  • BGN request 12/20/79(Turmero, Venezuela, State of Aragua, ppl., 10p0s14ʹN 67p0s29ʹW)
  • BGN gaz. Venezuela, 1961(Turmero, Aragua)
  • Col. Lip. gaz., 1966(Turmero, town, Aragua State, N. Venezuela)

Wikipedia description:

Turmero is a city in the state of Aragua in northern Venezuela. It is the capital of Santiago Mariño Municipality. The city was officially established on 27 November 1620 with the founding of a church, Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, in an existing village. Turmero had a station on the Great Venezuela Railway between Caracas and Valencia. This line opened in the 1890s and closed in the 1960s. There is an important road junction at La Encrucijada de Turmero.

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