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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northern Venezuela west-southwest of Caracas. It is a cattle center.

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  • noun a city in north central Venezuela; cattle center

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Examples

  • Then, when he turned more and more to the army, it was often to soldiers who made career holding command or office posts in Caracas defense ministry of Fuerte Tiuna or Maracay which is after all now only a distant suburb of Caracas.

    What would a Rosales presidency look like? 2006

  • Then, when he turned more and more to the army, it was often to soldiers who made career holding command or office posts in Caracas defense ministry of Fuerte Tiuna or Maracay which is after all now only a distant suburb of Caracas.

    10/22/2006 - 10/29/2006 2006

  • Talk also was about seizing the "command headquarters (with) the troops inside" and about Maracay, Aragua state's Air Base Libertador where Venezuela's F-16s and other planes are based.

    New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela 2008

  • His dream inspired another, decades later, when a young Hugo Chávez, then an Army officer in his late 20s, gathered with some of his military colleagues in the Venezuelan city of Maracay on the anniversary of Bolívar's death and declared, "There is Bolívar in the sky of the Americas, watchful and frowning ... because what he left undone remains undone to this very day."

    The Ghost Of Simón Bolívar 2008

  • The new system brought together young musicians from around the country, especially from the cities of Maracay and Barquisimeto (two cities widely known for its great music.).

    Venezuela: Youth Orchestra Transforms Lives 2008

  • Talk also was about seizing the "command headquarters (with) the troops inside" and about Maracay, Aragua state's Air Base Libertador where Venezuela's F-16s and other planes are based.

    New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela 2008

  • Jeanfreddy Gutierrez, from Maracay, possibly the most NiNi state today.

    The student revolution will be televised (or was that YouTubized?) 2007

  • Jeanfreddy Gutierrez, from Maracay, possibly the most NiNi state today.

    An exercise in history rewriting: February 27 2007

  • Jeanfreddy Gutierrez, from Maracay, possibly the most NiNi state today.

    A compendium of chavismo neo-whatever 2007

  • Most worrying, Chávez also closed a number of arms deals in Russia, including the purchase of five or six submarines, one of which is top-of-the-line; a large number of multipurpose helicopters; more fighter planes, and the construction of a Kalashnikov plant in Maracay.

    There Goes the Neighborhood 2007

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