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Estado Aragua
[[Image:|140px|Flag of Aragua State]] Image:Aragua coa.gif State flag State Coat of Arms
Aragua State Anthem
Motto: none
Location within Venezuela
Created (given current status)	1899
State capital	Maracay
Area    •%	7,014 km² 0,76   (Ranked 20th)
Population    •%	1,629,433 hab. (2005 est.) 6,28   (Ranked 6th)
Emblematic tree	The Samán (Pithecellobium saman)
ISO 3166-2	VE-D
Governor	Didalco Bolívar 2004 - 2007
Website: Gobernación del Estado Aragua

The anthem of the Aragua State, Venezuela, has lyrics composed by Ramón Bastidas, with music made by Manuel Betancourt.

Chorus
En el libro que guarda la Fama,
tendrá nuestro nombre soberbio blasón;
el valor, nuestro hermoso oriflama,
y el único escudo será el corazón.

I
Nuestras armas, por siempre triunfales,
humillaron al fiero español,
del clarín a las voces marciales
que oyó en sus montañas la tierra del sol.

II
Nuestro pueblo vibró de coraje
cuando esclava la patria gimió,
como ruge, del yugo al ultraje,
con ira potente soberbio el león.

III
En el campo sangriento de Marte
libertad a la patria ofrendó
la proeza inmortal de Ricaurte,
que en tierra aragueña su Olimpo encontró.

IV
Coronó nuestras cumbres de gloria
cuando Ribas la espada blandió,
y a su homérico Afán La Victoria
con sangre opresora sus campos regó.

Chorus
In the book that keeps fame,
our name will have an heroic banner;
bravery, shall be our beautiful flag,
and the only shield will be the heart.

I
Our weapons, for ever triumphant,
humilliated the fierce spaniard,
from trumpet to the martial voices
that heard in its mountains the land of the sun.

II
our people vibrated from courage
when enslaved our motherland cried,
how it roars, from yoke to rape,
with powerful rage proudly the lion.

III
in the bloody field of Mars
freedom to the motherland was offered
by the immortal deed of Ricaurte,
that in Araguan land his Olimpus found.

IV
Crowned with glory were our hills
when Ribas the sword brandished,
and in his Homeric pursuit Victory
with oppressing blood its fields sprayed.

• List of anthems of Venezuela