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Barinas (state) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 08 10 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 8.1667 decimal degrees |
Long: 069 50 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -69.8333 decimal degrees |
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Note: Cattle-ranching region characterized by periods of drought & flood; wide areas of the plain flood from May to December; became industrialized when oil was discovered in 1948. |
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Barinas (preferred,C,V,English)
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Estado Barinas (C,V,O,English)
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Estado Barinas (Portuguese)
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Estado Barinas (Spanish)
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Barinas, Estado (C,V)
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Barinas state (C,O)
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Estado Zamora (C,U)
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VE05 (C,U,FIPS)
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Zamora (H,V)
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state (preferred, C) |
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first level subdivision (C) |
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agricultural land (C) |
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