Barinas (state)

Barinas
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Basic data
Country	Venezuela
Capital	Barinas
surface	35,200 km²
Residents	913,600 (2017)
density	26 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	VE-E
Website	www.barinas.net.ve (Spanish)
politics
governor	Adán Chavez Frías
Political party	United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Coordinates: 8 ° 38 ′  N , 70 ° 13 ′  W

Barinas is one of the 23 states in Venezuela . The capital is Barinas . The former president of the country, Hugo Chávez , was born in this state. The current governor is his brother and former minister of education, Adán Chávez Frías . The mayor of the Municipio Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Anibal Chávez, is also a brother of the former president.

geography

Barinas is mainly located in the Llanos. The area consists mainly of very flat pasture lands, which are crossed by numerous rivers. In the northwest there is a mountainous rim, part of the Venezuelan Andes. The Apure River forms the state's southern border.

history

Georg Hohermuth von Speyer and Nikolaus Federmann explored the region in 1534 on their way to the Andes.

In 1542 Philipp von Hutten traveled from Coro to Colombia via this area. In 1547, Alonso Pérez de Tolosa, who came from El Tocuyo , crossed the Barinas area.

Administrative division

The state is made up of 12 municipalities :

district	Capital
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba	Sabaneta
Andrés Eloy Blanco	El Cantón
Antonio José de Sucre	Socopó
Arismendi	Arismendi
Barinas	Barinas
Bolívar	Barinitas
Cruz Paredes	Barrancas
Ezequiel Zamora	Santa Bárbara
Obispos	Obispos
Pedraza	Ciudad Bolivia
Rojas	Libertad
Sosa	Ciudad de Nutrias