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9 unusual facts about Maracay


AK-103

A manufacturing plant to produce the AK-103 in Maracay is operational, and it produces up to 50,000 units per year.

Fiat CR.32

The aircraft were delivered to Maracay in the second half of 1938 and equipped the 1° Regimiento de Aviación Militar del Venezuela.

Hebrew Catholics

There is also a group of Spanish-speaking Jewish Catholics in Maracay.

Leo Gamez

He made his professional boxing debut on February 14, 1985 in Maracay, when he decisioned Francisco García over four rounds.

Macalla noctuipalpis

It was described by Dognin in 1908, and is known from Venezuela (including Maracay), Argentina (including Tucuman) and Brazil.

Maracay

It is also home to the government-owned ammunition and weapons factory (CAVIM) that produces the Venezuelan version of the FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger - Light Automatic Rifle) rifle and will produce the newly acquired AK-103s; as well as the ammunition for both models.

The Venezuelan F-16 fighter planes are stationed here, as well as the new Sukhoi-30MKEs acquired by the Venezuelan Government.

Rosalio José Castillo Lara

Castillo Lara was born in San Casimiro, diocese of Maracay, in Venezuela's Aragua State, on 4 September 1922.

Short 360

21 August 2004: A Venezuelan Air Force Short 360 crashed into a mountain while descending to land at Maracay, killing all 30 people on board.


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Jesús Delgado

Jesús Andres Delgado Corrales (born April 19, 1984 in Maracay, Venezuela) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who plays for the Rieleros de Aguascalientes of the Mexican League.

Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere

Once the center for the Universal Great Brotherhood in Caracas was well established, Dr. Serge found a beautiful spot in El Limón, Maracay, in the State of Aragua, Venezuela where he decided to construct an Ashram.


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