Lagunillas is the capital city of the municipality of Sucre in the state of Mérida, Venezuela.

The city is in a semi-arid zone in the middle basin of the Chama River, with a warm, dry climate.

It contains the Laguna de Urao, a natural lagoon that helps cool the air, and adds humidity,[citation needed] named after an indigenous word for sodium sesquicarbonate, which is found in the lake.

[1] In February 2017 residents of the Sucre municipality denounced the deterioration of drying up of the Urao Lagoon, the main tourist attraction in the area, which they attribute to indiscriminate construction of housing and to climate change.

[4] An oil camp for Shell Venezuela workers in Lagunillas was designed by the architect José Lino Vaamonde in 1954.