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The town was the closest to the coast of these new settlements, and the colonists retained a native workforce, which allowed a trade network to develop between Caracas, the interior, and Margarita; the towns further inland produced ample cotton products and beeswax, and Margarita was a rich source of pearls.
Plaza Bolívar is the focus of the old town with the monument to El Libertador, Simón Bolívar, at its heart. Modern high-rise buildings have overpowered much of the colonial flavor of Caracas' founding neighbourhood. Plaza Venezuela is the geographic center of Caracas. It is a large urban plaza at the entrance of the Central University of ...
Teatro Principal (Caracas) opens. 1937 – Municipal Commission of Town Planning established. [30] 1941 – Population: 269,030 city; 380,099 federal district. [4] 1945 Simón Bolívar International Airport, Altamira Square, and Jardin Botanico de Caracas . [31] inaugurated. Caracas Journal newspaper begins publication. [25]
Founded in 1727 by the bandeirante explorer Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, Goiás has preserved much of its colonial heritage and is an example of a European settlement in the interior of South America. [41] Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda: Pernambuco, Brazil: Cultural: (ii), (iv) 120 (300); buffer zone 920 (2,300) 1982 Founded in 1537 the ...
Map of Venezuela Caracas, Capital of Venezuela Maracaibo Valencia Barquisimeto San Cristóbal Ciudad Guayana Puerto la Cruz Pampatar Guarenas Porlamar. This is a list of cities, towns and communities in Venezuela. The state capitals are marked with a *.
According to the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence, a Caracas-based non-profit group widely regarded as the authority on the nation’s homicide rate, Caracas had a rate of 50.8 homicides per ...
Portrait of Simón Bolívar in the house. The house on San Jacinto Street was completed in the 1640s. [4] Bolivar was born to Doña María de la Concepción Palacios y Blanco and Coronel Don Juan Vicente Bolívar y Ponte in the bedroom here on 24 July 1783, and was the fourth child of the aristocratic couple of the Creole family who had migrated from Spain 200 years earlier.
The National Pantheon of Venezuela (Panteón Nacional de Venezuela) is a final resting place for national heroes.The Pantheon (Latin Pantheon, [1] from Greek Pantheon, meaning "Temple of all the Gods") was created in the 1870s on the site of the ruined Santísima Trinidad church from 1744 on the northern edge of the old town of Caracas, Venezuela.