1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Venezuela
Compare this sourced profile of Maturín, 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 Maturín—647,459, 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: city in Monagas, Venezuela.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Maturín is GeoNames ID 3778045. Its recorded administrative path is Municipio Maturin → Monagas → Venezuela, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Maturín 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, Maturín ranks 859 by recorded population. Inside the 7 selected Venezuela entries it ranks 7; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 137. Its 647,459 population value is 0.52 times the 1,240,714 median for the country cohort and 0.79 times the 816,326 regional median. Maturín is rank 7 among the 7 selected Venezuela entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Maturín's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Maturín's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ciudad Guayana at 166.096 km with 978,202 recorded people; Barcelona (Venezuela) at 170.464 km with 815,141 recorded people; Caracas at 412.911 km with 3,000,000 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 246.815 km. Compared with Ciudad Guayana, Maturín's recorded population is 0.66 times as large. Against Maturín, Ciudad Guayana follows Municipio Caroni → Bolivar → 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 second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Maturín's. Against Maturín, Barcelona (Venezuela) follows Municipio Simon Bolivar → Anzoategui → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower 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 above Maturín's. Against Maturín, Caracas follows Municipio Libertador → Distrito Federal → Venezuela in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Venezuela cohort, uses the shared America/Caracas identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Maturín's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 918 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Maturín'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 3778045, the coordinate pair 9.7457 / 63.1832, country rank 7 of 7, and neighbor GeoNames 3645528 at 166.096 km bind Maturín to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Maturín's reference point is 9.7457° north and 63.1832° 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. Maturín's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Maturín's point falls in the near-equatorial coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Maturín's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Maturín, 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
Maturín's closest other entries in this atlas are Ciudad Guayana (166.096 km), Barcelona (Venezuela) (170.464 km), Caracas (412.911 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.