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La Democracia, Miranda

town in the Venezuelan state of Miranda

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3208167 ↗
Source-derived summary

La Democracia is a town in the state of Miranda, Venezuela. It is part of the Lander Municipality. In 1875, Venezuelan lithographic printer Antonio Damirón donated land from his estate in Miranda to create the municipality.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “La Democracia, Miranda” as town in the Venezuelan state of Miranda. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Democracia, Miranda and town.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Democracia, Miranda and town providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “La Democracia, Miranda”, the useful work is to connect “town in the Venezuelan state of Miranda” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3208167. Authority coordinates are 10.016, -66.687. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1875.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “La Democracia, Miranda”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow La Democracia, Miranda primary sources, La Democracia, Miranda archive and Democracia research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “La Democracia, Miranda”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “La Democracia, Miranda” 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.