Valencia is the capital city of Carabobo State, and the third largest city of Venezuela

Venezuela

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The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. The population of Valencia reached some 1.5 million in the year 2003, and it is expected to grow dramatically in the years to come. Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

 lies some 180 km away to the East.

Valencia, as a city (not to be confused with the homonym municipality Valencia), it's integrated by five (5) municipalities

Municipality

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 of Carabobo State:

• Valencia municipality
• Naguanagua Municipality
  Naguanagua Municipality
  The Naguanagua Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 143,315...
  
  
• San Diego Municipality
  San Diego Municipality
  The San Diego Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 74,941...
  
  
• Los Guayos Municipality
  Los Guayos Municipality
  The Los Guayos Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 157,787...
  
  
• Libertador Municipality
  Libertador Municipality, Carabobo
  The Libertador Municipality is one of the 14 municipalities that makes up Carabobo State of Venezuela and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 175,255. The town of Tocuyito is the shire town of the...
  
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The area was already inhabited in the fourth millennium BC.