1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Venezuela
Compare this sourced profile of Maracaibo, Venezuela before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Maracaibo—1,752,602, America/Caracas, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital city of the Zulia state, Venezuela.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Maracaibo is GeoNames ID 3633009. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio Maracaibo → Zulia → Venezuela, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Maracaibo occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Maracaibo ranks 249 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Venezuela entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 33. Its 1,752,602 population value is 1.41 times the 1,240,714 median for the country cohort and 2.15 times the 816,326 regional median. Maracaibo is rank 2 among the 7 selected Venezuela entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Maracaibo's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Maracaibo's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Valledupar at 180.591 km with 490,075 recorded people; Barquisimeto at 254.765 km with 1,240,714 recorded people; Santa Marta at 289.723 km with 499,192 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 109.132 km. Compared with Valledupar, Maracaibo's recorded population is 3.58 times as large. Against Maracaibo, Valledupar follows Valledupar → Cesar Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Colombia cohort rather than Venezuela, uses America/Bogota instead of America/Caracas, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Maracaibo's. Against Maracaibo, Barquisimeto follows Municipio Iribarren → Lara → Venezuela in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Maracaibo's. Against Maracaibo, Santa Marta follows Santa Marta → Magdalena Department → Colombia in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Colombia cohort rather than Venezuela, uses America/Bogota instead of America/Caracas, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Maracaibo's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 951 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Maracaibo's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3633009, the coordinate pair 10.6423 / 71.6109, country rank 2 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 3666304 at 180.591 km bind Maracaibo to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Maracaibo's reference point is 10.6423° north and 71.6109° west. The IANA identifier America/Caracas is shared by 7 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Maracaibo's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Maracaibo's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Maracaibo's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Maracaibo, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Maracaibo's closest other entries in this atlas are Valledupar (180.591 km), Barquisimeto (254.765 km), Santa Marta (289.723 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.