Trujillo, Trujillo

{{Other uses|Trujillo (disambiguation){{!}}Trujillo}}

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| photo3a = Plaza Cristobal Mendoza.jpg

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|image_caption = Top:Panoramic view of Trujillo, from La Paz Monument, Second:Panoramic view of Trujillo and Trujillo Cathedral, Gonzalico Hills, (Cerro de Gonzalico), Bottom:Cristobal Mendoza Square (Plaza Cristobal de Mendoza) (all items were left to right)

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|subdivision_name = {{flagicon|Venezuela}}Venezuela

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|established_title = Founded

|established_date = 9 October 1557

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|leader_title = Mayor

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|population_total = 110,920

|population_density_km2 = 92.28

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|elevation_footnotes=

|elevation_m = 1400

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|population_blank1 = Trujillano(a)

|area_code = 0272

|postal_code_type = Postal code

|postal_code = 3150

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|website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20060615004912/http://trujillo-trujillo.gov.ve/portal-alcaldias/ Alcaldía de Trujillo] {{in lang|es}}

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Trujillo is the capital city of Trujillo State in Venezuela.{{Cite book|author=Corte, Trujillo (Venezuela : State) Gobernador|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJtAAAAAYAAJ&q=Trujillo+Venezuela|title=Exposición del ciudadano gobernador del Estado Trujillo doctor Luis La Corte a la Asamblea Legislativa en sus sesiones ordinarias de 1959: con motivo de la presentación del proyecto de ley de presupuesto de ingresos y gastos públicos para el año fiscal 1959-1960|date=1959|publisher=Secretaría y Oficina de Relaciones Públicas, Sección de Public|language=es}}

About 40,000 people live in this city,{{Cite book|last=Jamail|first=Milton H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JdeQIBz8zSUC&pg=PA115|title=Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andres Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier|date=2008-01-01|page=115|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-1742-3|language=en}} {{outdated inline|date=November 2023}}located in El Valle de Los Mukas.

File:Monumento a la Paz (Virgen de la Paz, Estado Trujillo).jpg in Trujillo, the tallest statue in South America.]]

File:Heroés trujillenses I.jpg

History

Founded by one of the "Conquistadores de America", Diego García de Paredes (1506–1563), son of Diego García de Paredes (the father), (1466–1534), Spanish soldier and duellist, native of Trujillo in Extremadura, Spain.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

In 1678, Trujillo was the farthest point in a daring raid on Spanish-held Venezuela, carried out by six pirate ships and 700 men led by the French buccaneer Michel de Grammont.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

Simon Bolívar promulgated the Decree of War to the Death in the city on 15 June 1813.

Notable People

  • Yoel Daboín (born 2004) - footballer

Twin cities

References