page_title: Barquisimeto
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Barquisimeto / Education
caption_attribution_description: Español: El espacio se percibe de manera continua con alturas considerables que expresan la verticalidad característica del estilo gótico.
context_page_description: Barquisimeto is a city in Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of the country, recognized as the fourth-largest city by population and area in Venezuela after Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia.
context_section_description: Barquisimeto is a city with a historic vocation by academic knowledge, and boasts a considerable sample of universities and institutes of higher education in Venezuela, has a high and growing student population from all over the country.
  Major universities in the city include Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado and Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica Antonio José de Sucre.
caption: Nuestra Señora de la Paz Sanctuary.
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