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Cabudare
Lara, Venezuela · South America
About Cabudare
Cabudare sits on the route: 20 minutes from Barquisimeto.
Cabudare is in Lara, Venezuela, with about 100,000 people. The nearest town is Barquisimeto, about 11 km away.
Cabudare (Spanish pronunciation: [kaβuˈðaɾe], original indigenous name Kabudari), is a city in Lara State, in Venezuela, and capital of the Palavecino Municipality. Located at an elevation of 400 m on the Turbio River, it is on the major west-central freeway, the Autopista Centro Occidental. Due to the growth of theRead more
economy in Barquisimeto, Cabudare has become a bedroom community, with new housing construction replacing the sugar cane fields. A minority of the population are still engaged in agriculture within the municipality.
There are important private hospitals such as Clínica IDB Cabudare and Hospital Internacional.
The city had 78,578 inhabitants (c. 2011), which represented 40.5% of the total population of the Palavecino municipality.
Cabudare currently represents one of the biggest urban growth in Venezuela, due to its commercial and housing expansion. It has several urbanisations and neighbourhoods where a large quantity of people lives. However, in terms of beauty of the municipality, there are some improvements to be made since there has not been a lot of maintenance in important areas by the previous mayors, so it is needing a push from its inhabitants to their governance in order to improve the city.
It has been considered as the dormitory city of Barquisimeto, which is the capital or the Lara State, due to its housing growth; however, it also has had commercial and industrial growth.
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Cabudare is in Lara, Venezuela, about 11 km from Barquisimeto.
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- Population
- 102,686
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Venezuela
- Region
- Lara
- Timezone
- America/Caracas
- Coordinates
- 10.0266, -69.2620
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