Cabudare is a city in Lara State

Lara (state)

Lara State is one of the 23 states into which Venezuela is divided. The state capital is Barquisimeto.Lara State covers a total surface area of and, in 2007, had an estimated population of 1,795,100.- Municipalities and municipal seats :...

, in Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, and capital of the Palavecino municipality.
Located at an elevation of 400 m. on the Turbio River

Turbio River

The Turbio River rises in a mountainous region of the Argentine Andes and discharges to the Última Esperanza Sound in Chile. Río Turbio headwaters are in a part of the Andes where there is no central valley, or gap between the eastern and western ridges...

, it is on the major west-central freeway, the Autopista Centro Occidental.
Due to the growth of the economy in Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto

Barquisimeto is the capital city of the State of Lara located in west central Venezuela, halfway between Caracas and Maracaibo on the Turbio River.-Overview:...

, Cabudare has become a bedroom community, with new housing construction replacing the sugar cane fields. A minority of the population are still engaged in agriculture within the municipality.

The city had 59,671 inhabitants (c. 2001), which represented 44.4% of the total population of the Palavecino municipality.

External links

• Cabudare information portal in Spanish.