Maracaibo (ven)

Maracaibo

Maracaibo ranks 2,732nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Antofagasta, Rancagua, and Ningbo. The most famous people from Maracaibo are Rafael Urdaneta, Patricia Velásquez, and Lupita Ferrer. The most famous people who died in Maracaibo are José Gregorio Monagas. Maracaibo has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians. Maracaibo is located in Venezuela.

Maracaibo is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, located on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the capital of Zulia state and the second-largest city in Venezuela and is the second-largest city proper in Venezuela, after the national capital, Caracas. The city has an estimated population of 1,752,602, with the metropolitan area estimated at 2,727,957 as of 2019. Maracaibo is commonly nicknamed “Spanish: La Tierra del Sol Amada”. Read more on Wikipedia