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Bejuma is a small town in Carabobo State, Venezuela, seat of the Bejuma Municipality.

Bejuma
La Esperanza Lake in Bejuma
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Bejuma
Coordinates: 10°11′N 68°15′W
Country	Venezuela
State	Carabobo
Municipality	Bejuma Municipality
Founded	1843
Elevation	667 m (2,188 ft)
Time zone	UTC−4 (VET)

Geography

Bejuma is located at 667 metres over sea level.

Vegetation and natural resources

The municipality of Bejuma lies in the Cordillera La Costa Montane Forests ecoregion, and the major habitat type is tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.[1]

History

The town of Bejuma was founded in 1843 by the landowners of the "Fundo Bejuma" hacienda.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashed near Bejuma on 25 December 1999. The plane flew from Havana, Cuba to Simón Bolívar International Airport.

Economy

The economy of the region is based on agriculture. There are also some minor food processing plants in the area.

Culture

The Casa de la Cultura (Culture House) is a building that contains the Atheneum, the public library Manuel Pimentel Coronel and the city museum. The city museum (Museo Pueblos del Occidente de Carabobo or Museum of the Peoples of Western Carabobo) contains objects coming from the original Indian cultures as well as from different later periods of the history of Western Carabobo.

The city also has a theatre, Teatro Palermo, as well as a social centre, Centro Social Bejuma.

Notable residents

• Thairo Estrada (born 1996), Major League Baseball player for the San Francisco Giants

References

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Bejuma es una ciudad venezolana, capital del Municipio Bejuma del Estado Carabobo en la Región Central de Venezuela. Tiene una población estimada para el 2016 de 51.960 habitantes. Es uno de los tres municipios que conforman el occidente del Estado Carabobo, junto a Miranda y Montalbán.Estos tres municipios se ubican en lo que geográficamente corresponde a los Valles Altos de Carabobo. Particularmente, Bejuma ha sido llamada "Jardín de Carabobo" debido al abundante vegetación que posee su geografía.

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