page_title: Trujillo (state)
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: Trujillo (state) / Sports
caption_attribution_description: Español: Panorámica del Estadio José Alberto Pérez de Valera, Estado Trujillo, Venezuela, durante un partido de fútbol.
context_page_description: Trujillo State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. Its capital is Trujillo but the largest city is Valera. The state is divided into 20 municipalities and 93 parishes. Trujillo State covers a total surface area of 7,198 km² and, has a 2011 census population of 686,367.
context_section_description: The most popular sport in the region is football, something similar to what happens in other Andean states of Venezuela such as Táchira or Mérida. The most prominent team is Trujillanos Fútbol Club, which plays in the first division of Venezuela and is based in the Estadio Olímpico José Alberto Pérez de Valera, where the much smaller Somos Escuque Fútbol Club, a third division team, also plays its matches.
  The organization in charge of promoting sports in the state, is the Trujillo State Sports Institute called Indet, which manages other facilities such as the Ricardo Salas Gymnasium in San Luis (Gimnasio Cubierto "Ricardo Salas") in the Municipality of Valera, which is a sports hall suitable for sports such as basketball, volleyball or indoor football. Other facilities include the Baseball Stadium in San Luis, the Luis Loreto Lira Sports Centre, the "Carmania" Cultural Complex, the Vicente Laguna Velodrome in Mendoza Fría, the "Regulo Jiménez" Wrestling Gymnasium, the "Ana De Marchandi" Gymnasium, the "Nestor Rosales" Tae Kwon Do Gymnasium, the "Romulo Ramírez" Indoor Football Gymnasium, and the "Alicia Nava" Olympic Swimming Pool.
caption: José Alberto Pérez Stadium in Valera, Trujillo State
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