Naming
Several states are named for historical figures:
- Anzoátegui for José Antonio Anzoátegui
- Bolívar for Simón Bolívar
- Falcón for Juan Crisóstomo Falcón
- Lara for Jacinto Lara
- Miranda for Francisco de Miranda
- Monagas for José Tadeo Monagas and José Gregorio Monagas
- Sucre for Antonio José de Sucre
- Vargas for José María Vargas
Several states are named for natural features:
- Amazonas is named for the Amazon River
- Apure is named for the Apure River
- Aragua for the Aragua River
- Barinas for the Barinas River
- Cojedes for the Cojedes River
- Delta Amacuro for the river delta of the Amacuro River
- Guárico for the Guárico River
- Portuguesa for the Portuguesa River
- Táchira for the Táchira River
- Yaracuy for the Yaracuy River
Other naming origins:
- Carabobo, named for an ethnic village
- Caracas, named for the Caracas indigenous group
- Mérida, for the capital city, Mérida, itself named for Mérida in Spain.
- Nueva Esparta ("New Sparta") is named for the heroism shown by its inhabitants during the Venezuelan War of Independence, deemed similar to that of the Spartan soldiers of Ancient Greece.
- Trujillo, for the capital city, Trujillo, itself named for Trujillo in Spain.
- Zulia's name stems from a vocal transliteration from the chibcha language, being the name they called an exotic blue-flowered plant known as "Edging Lobelia" (Lobelia erinus).
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“Husband,
who am I to reject the naming of foods
in a time of famine?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)