Ramón Ignacio Méndez est l'une des quatorze paroisses civiles de la municipalité de Barinas dans l'État de Barinas au Venezuela. Sa capitale est Barinas, chef-lieu de la municipalité et capitale de l'État, dont elle abrite les quartiers au sud et sud-est du centre. En 2011, sa population s'élève à 90 464 habitants et en 2018 à 105 775 habitants.
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Estadio Agustín Tovar, also known as Estadio La Carolina, is a multi-purpose stadium in Barinas, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home stadium of Zamora FC. The stadium holds 24,234 people and was completed in 2007.
This stadium was re-built to increase its capacity from 12,000 people up to 30,000.
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Apure Department was one of the departments of Gran Colombia. It was split from the Venezuela Department.
It encompassed 2 provinces - Barinas Province in the north and Achaguas Province in the south. In 1830, when Gran Colombia collapsed, it was incorporated into Venezuela.
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar, or simply Cathedral of Barinas, is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Briceño Mendez Avenue in front of Bolivar Square in the city of Barinas, the capital of Barinas State in the plains region of the South American country of Venezuela.
The cathedral follows the Roman or Latin rite and serves as the seat of the Diocese of Barinas that was created on July 23, 1965, with the papal bull Apostolicum munus of Pope Paul VI. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the Bishop Jesús Alfonso Guerrero Contreras, O.F.M. Cap. As its name implies was dedicated to the Virgin Mary in her title of Our Lady of the Pillar.
It is a structure dating from the Spanish colonial era, having been built between 1770 and 1780. It is an important tourist attraction and a religious monument of great historical value.
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The Diocese of Barinas is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Mérida, in western Venezuela's land-locked Barinas state.
Its cathedral is the Catedral de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, located in the eponymous state capital Barinas.