Guarenas-Guatire conurbation

Guarenas-Guatire conurbation
(Guarenas-Guatire Metropolitan Area)
Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire
Area Metropolitana de Guarenas-Guatire
Conurbation

27 de Febrero neighborhood in Guarenas
Country  Venezuela
State

 Miranda

Largest Cities Guarenas
Guatire
Area
 • Metro 558 km2 (215 sq mi)
Population [1]
 • Metro 473,728
 • Metro density 848.97/km2 (2,198.8/sq mi)
Time zone VST (UTC-4:30)

Guarenas-Guatire conurbation [2][3][4] or Guarenas-Guatire metropolitan area (Spanish: Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire or Area Metropolitana de Guarenas-Guatire), also known as El Nuevo Este de Caracas (New East of Caracas), is a conurbation area in Miranda, Venezuela, that includes 2 municipalities, it is part of the Greater Caracas Area.[5] It has a population of 473,728 inhabitants.

Cities

The principal cities of the area are (2013):[1]

  1. Guarenas (pop. 264,290)
  2. Guatire (pop. 159,725)
  3. Araira (pop. 49,713)

Municipalities

The 2 municipalities of the area are:

Municipality Area (km²)[6] Population 2013 [1] Population density 2013 (/km²)
Plaza 180 264,290 1,468.27
Zamora 378 209,438 554.06
Guarenas-Guatire conurbation 558 473,728 848.97

Transportation

Metro and Light rail

The Guarenas / Guatire Metro is a dual subway / light rail system project to connect the twin cities and intermediate communities to Caracas. The 6.7 km (4.2 mi) urban line will start from the Caracas Metro Parque del Este II station and end at the Guaraira Repano (Petare Norte) station, while the 31.4 km (19.5 mi) suburban line will start from the Guaraira Repano station and end at the Guatire II station with future extensions already in the planning stage.[7]

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guarenas.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guatire.

References

  1. 1 2 3 http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/elecciones/2013/municipales/circunscripciones/Miranda.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.miranda.gov.ve/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1100&Itemid=238 "Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire"
  3. ↑ http://geodeg.com/search.php?q=miranda&language=&country=229&n=500 Conurbación Guatire-Guarenas
  4. ↑ http://www2.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1012-70892009000200007&lng=es&nrm=i "La conurbación Guarenas-Guatire-Araira forma parte del área metropolitana de la ciudad de Caracas; representa un conjunto de centros poblados de expansión para el crecimiento urbano e industrial (Díaz, 2005..."
  5. ↑ http://www.minamb.gob.ve/files/Ordenacion%20del%20Territorio/4.4-sistema-de-ciudades-vialidad-transporte-revisado.pdf Conurbación Guarenas-Guatire: constituye una conurbación y como tal un centro regional de segundo orden, cuya forma y estructura están determinadas por la presencia de zonas naturales protegidas, las cuales la limitan y condicionan y constituye una zona de paso de los flujos provenientes de Caracas y que se dirigen a la zona de Barlovento y los estados orientales del país.
  6. ↑ http://www.ine.gob.ve/documentos/see/sintesisestadistica2011/estados/miranda/index.htm Sintesis Estadistica de Miranda: POBLACIÓN
  7. ↑ "Estaciones del metro del tramo Guarenas-Guatire estarán listas para 2014". Economía. Agencia Venezolana de Noticias Torre Lincoln. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.


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