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| Santa Rita | |||
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| Valle de Santa Rita de Cascia | |||
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  Santa Rita | |||
| Coordinates: 10°12′01″N67°33′05″W / 10.20028°N 67.55139°W Coordinates: 10°12′01″N67°33′05″W / 10.20028°N 67.55139°W | |||
| Country |  | ||
| State | Aragua | ||
| Municipality | Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality | ||
| City Established | December 16, 1997 | ||
| Elevation | 435 m (1,427 ft) | ||
| Population | |||
| • Total | 134,233 | ||
| • Demonym | Santaricense/a | ||
| Time zone | VST | ||
| Postal code | 2103 | ||
| Area code(s) | 0243 | ||
| Climate | Aw | ||
Santa Rita is a city in the state of Aragua, Venezuela. It is the shire town of the Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality. It is part of the metropolitan area of Maracay.
Aragua State is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first national park which is called Henri Pittier.
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and a large number of small islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. It has a territorial extension of 916,445 km2. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. With this last country, the Venezuelan government maintains a claim for Guayana Esequiba over an area of 159,542 km2. For its maritime areas, it exercises sovereignty over 71,295 km2 of territorial waters, 22,224 km2 in its contiguous zone, 471,507 km2 of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean under the concept of exclusive economic zone, and 99,889 km2 of continental shelf. This marine area borders those of 13 states. The country has extremely high biodiversity and is ranked seventh in the world's list of nations with the most number of species. There are habitats ranging from the Andes Mountains in the west to the Amazon basin rain-forest in the south via extensive llanos plains, the Caribbean coast and the Orinoco River Delta in the east.
The Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality is one of the 18 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Aragua and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 123,122. The town of Santa Rita is the shire town of the Francisco Linares Alcántara Municipality.
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