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Estado Miranda
Image:Miranda flag.gif Image:Miranda coa.gif State flag State Coat of Arms
Miranda State Anthem
Motto: none
Location within Venezuela
Created (given current status)	1909
State capital	Los Teques
Area    •%	7,950 km² 0,87   (Ranked 17th)
Population    •%	2,789,073 hab. (2005 est.) 10,3   (Ranked 2nd)
Emblematic tree	The Roso blanco (Brownea leucantha)
ISO 3166-2	VE-M
Governor	Diosdado Cabello 2004 - 2007
Website: Gobernación del Estado Miranda

The anthem of the Miranda State, Venezuela, has lyrics by Jacinto Áñez; and has music composed by Germán Lira.

Chorus
Gloria al héroe inmortal que destaca
Su bizarra figura de la historia
Del cenit en la negra carraca
Como prodiga fuente de gloria.

I
Cruza el suelo infecundo
Donde fuerzas arteras
Arrebatan al mundo
Su don de libertad;
No respeta fronteras
En los pueblos que gimen;
Ante el odio y el crimen
Su deber es luchar.

II
Si España le fulmina
detrás de sus altares
Inglaterra ilumina
Su sendero inmortal;
Desprecia de los zares
La codicia ofrenda
Por que falta a su tienda
La dulce libertad.

III
Francia la abre sus brazos
Despedazado el pecho,
Por que a duros zarpazos
Un trono derrumbo;
Y el humano derecho
Al erguirse triunfante
Vio el esfuerzo pujante
De Miranda en acción.

Chorus
Glory to the inmortal hero that makes stand out
His bizarre figure from the history
of the zenith in the dark Carraca
As a prodigal source of glory.

I
Crosses the sterile soil
Where cunning forces
Take away from the world
Its gift of liberty;
He doesn't respect frontiers
In the moaning towns;
Towards hate and crime
His duty is to fight.

II
If Spain fulminates him
Behind its altars
England illuminates
His immortal path;
Rejects from the tzars
The greed offer
Because his tent is missing
The sweet liberty.

III
France opens its arms for him
Shattered his chest,
Because against hard lashes
A throne demolished;
And the upright human
When erected triumphant
Saw the struggling effort
Of Miranda in action.

• List of anthems of Venezuela