La Victoria, Aragua

The Battle of La Victoria occurred on 20 and 29 June 1812, in La Victoria, Venezuela.

The battle of La Victoria took place during the Venezuelan War of Independence when Royalist forces under José Tomás Boves tried to take the city of La Victoria, held by General José Félix Ribas.

El Clarín (founded on October 7, 1989, in La Victoria, Aragua state) is a newspaper from Venezuela that circulates in the central region of the country. Especially, in the East Axis of the Aragua state. On a smaller scale, in the states of Guárico, Miranda and Caracas. Its current president is the journalist Luis Fernández Villegas.

San Mateo is a city in the state of Aragua in Venezuela. It is the administrative seat of Bolívar Municipality. It was founded on 30 November 1620. San Mateo has a former cane sugar mill, Ingenio Bolívar, now a museum.

The Battle of San Mateo was a series of battles in the Valleys of Aragua in what is now Venezuela, during the Venezuelan War of Independence between 28 February and 25 March 1814.

Cagua (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɣwa]) is a city of Venezuela, capital of the Sucre Municipality of Aragua State. Cagua is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay.

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.

The "Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua" (UBA) is a private institution of higher education in Turmero, Aragua State, Venezuela. Undergraduate degrees offered: Engineering Faculty Systems engineering Electrical engineering Faculty of Management and Social Sciences Administration Public Accounting Social Communication Psychology Faculty of Political and Legal Sciences Law

Santa Rita is a city in the state of Aragua, Venezuela. It is the shire town of the Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality, in the state of Aragua. It is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay. It is 435 meters above sea level and is located in the hydrographic basin of Lake Valencia. Santa Rita is bordered to the north by the Caño Colorado, and the Caracas-Valencia Highway, and to the south by the Turmero River. In 2023 Santa Rita had 149,158 inhabitants.

The Las Delicias Zoo (Spanish: Parque Zoológico de Las Delicias) Also Zoological Park of Las Delicias Is an urban zoological garden located at 400 meters above sea level in the northern end of the city of Maracay, Aragua State in Venezuela with native species from the Cordillera region and the rest of Venezuela. The zoo operates under Declaration No. 655 published in Official Gazette No. 32007 of June 17, 1980. The Ministry of the Environment maintains the rectory of the Maracay Zoo and the Aragua State Government assumes some administrative responsibility to support the programs that are developed in the park. The zoo is a historical continuation of a hacienda in the eastern slope of Cola de Caballo Mountains. The zoo of Maracay opened for the first time in 1915 at the initiative of General Juan Vicente Gómez as a corral with a personal exhibition of many animals presented at Las Delicias hacienda, owned by the president. Then, native animals such as chigüires, nutrias, corocoras, gabanes, garzones soldiers and alligators. In 1928 the collection was enriched with specimens requested from the Hamburg Zoo and other places such as Bengal, Elephant, Giraffe, Orangutan, Chimpanzee and African Lions. Gómez died in his house inside the zoo grounds in December 1935. The zoo was officially inaugurated in 1952 by the then president of Venezuela Marcos Pérez Jiménez. It was also known for their hybrid bears, which derived from a mating between a male spectacled bear and a female Asian black bear.

San Martín de Porres Parish is a Venezuelan administrative political division, located in Libertador Municipality, Aragua State, Venezuela and has an approximate population of 130,270 inhabitants. It covers almost 56% of the municipality. The San Martín de Porres Parish limits to the north with the Santa Rita Parish, to the east with the Palo Negro parish, to the south with the Palo Negro Crossroads, and to the west with the Lake of Valencia. The Parish includes: the old Palo Negro-Santa Rita Highway (Aragua), El Libertador Air Base, El Libertador Air Base Urbanization (BAEL), Los Aviadores Socialist City Urbanization, José Antonio Vargas Hospital (La Ovallera Social Security) and La Ovallera Urbanization.