Zulia

This article is about the state of Zulia. For the river see Río Zulia , for the Colombian community see El Zulia .

Zulia
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Basic data
Country	Venezuela
Capital	Maracaibo
surface	63,100 km²
Residents	4,199,200 (2017 estimate)
density	67 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	VE-V
politics
governor	Magdely Valbuena
Political party	PSUV

Coordinates: 9 ° 58 ′  N , 72 ° 31 ′  W

Zulia is one of the 23 states of Venezuela and is located in the northwest of the country on the border with Colombia . The capital is Maracaibo . The name comes from the name of a plant ( Männertreu , Latin Lobelia erinus) in a Chibcha language or refers to the river of the same name that flows into Lake Maracaibo in the southwest of the state .

The oil from the Lake Maracaibo (one of the largest reserves of oil and natural gas in the Western Hemisphere) where a large proportion of the country's revenue.

A good 60 percent of Venezuela's indigenous population live in Zulia. The proportion of the population of Zulia is just under 13 percent ( 2011 census ).

geography

Zulia has a long (and largely uninhabited) border with Colombia to the north and west, from the Guajira Peninsula to the Perijá Mountains. In the south it borders on the Venezuelan Andean states Táchira , Mérida and Trujillo and in the east on Lara and Falcón .

Within its limits is Lake Maracaibo, the largest lake in South America . According to the (controversial) legend, the stilt houses (palafitos), reminiscent of Venice, which the Añus (the indigenous indigenous people) had built over the water, gave Venezuela its name (Little Venice). To the north of this is the Gulf of Venezuela .

With 63,100 km², Zulia is the fifth largest state in the country.

Administrative division

Zulia is divided into 21 districts ( Municipios ):

district Capital Almirante Padilla El Toro Baralt San Timoteo Cabimas Cabimas Catatumbo Encontrados Colón San Carlos del Zulia Francisco Javier Pulgar Pueblo Nuevo, El Chivo Jesús Enrique Losada La Concepción Jesús María Semprún Casigua el Cubo La Cañada de Urdaneta Concepción Lagunillas Ciudad Ojeda Machiques de Perijá Machiques Mara San Rafael del Moján Maracaibo Maracaibo Miranda Los Puertos de Altagracia Páez Sinamaica Rosario de Perijá La Villa del Rosario San Francisco Municipality San Francisco Santa Rita Santa Rita Simón Bolívar Tía Juana Sucre Bobures Valmore Rodríguez Bachaquero

Zulia to Municipios

economy

Zulia depends on the production of oil, which is carried out on a large scale (in Lake Maracaibo) (80% of the country's production comes from Zulia). Its sales are the main source of income for Venezuela.

In the south there is arable farming and animal husbandry, mainly palm oil, grapes , milk , cheese , beef and pork , poultry , but also bananas in many sizes and types, sugar cane , coconuts , cotton , beans and melons .

There is also extensive fishing in the waters of Zulia (Lake Maracaibo and Gulf of Venezuela).

Sons and daughters of the state

• Humberto Fernández Morán , scientist (* 1924; † 1999)
• Rafael Urdaneta , President of Greater Colombia 1823, 1824
• Rafael María Baralt, writer and journalist (* 1810; † 1860)
• Luis Aparicio , baseball player

Web links

Commons : Zulia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Primeros Resultados Censo Nacional 2011: Población Indígena de Venezuela. National Statistics Institute, January 2013, accessed December 29, 2018.