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Altos Mirandinos metropolitan area

conurbation in Miranda, Venezuela

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5671176 ↗
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Altos Mirandinos metropolitan area or Los Teques metropolitan area (Spanish: Area Metropolitana de Los Altos Mirandinos or Area Metropolitana de Los Teques) is a metropolitan area in Miranda, Venezuela, that includes 3 municipalities, it's part of the Greater Caracas area. It has a population of 454,929 inhabitants.

Cities

The principal cities of the area are (2013):

Los Teques (pop. 251,872)

San Antonio de Los Altos (pop. 83,866)

Carrizal (pop. 58,561)

Paracotos (pop. 18,598)

San José de Los Altos (pop. 16,489)

San Pedro (pop. 13,170)

Municipalities

The 3 municipalities of the area are:

Transportation

Metro

The Los Teques Metro is the most important public transportation in the area with an operating line that runs for 9.5 kilometers. The system connects the city of Los Teques with the capital of Caracas.

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This entry incorporates text from “Altos Mirandinos metropolitan area” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.