Machiques

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| subdivision_name2 = Machiques de Perijá

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| established_date = 8 November 1841

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| population_urban = 63,000 (2011)[http://www.geonames.org/3633444/machiques.html Machiques]. Geonames.org. Retrieved 4 February 2019.

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Machiques is a city in Zulia State, Venezuela, located in the northwest portion of the country. It is close to the border with Colombia, and the area's main economic activity is cattle raising. On 16 August 2005 West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, en route from Panama City to Fort-de-France, stalled and crashed in a mountainous area of the municipality, killing all 160 people on board.{{cite news|last=Hradecky|first=Simon|title=Report:West Caribbean MD82 at Machiquez on Aug 16th 2005, Did Not Recover from High Altitude Stall|url=http://avherald.com/h?article=4308e7d6&opt=0|accessdate=3 April 2012|newspaper=The Aviation Herald|date=5 September 2010}}