Articles in Venezuela ( 365 )

365 Articles of interest in Venezuela

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  • Universidad Metropolitana

    The Metropolitan University (Spanish: Universidad Metropolitana) was founded in 1970 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa in the terrains donated by the businessman Pius Schlageter, father of the Venezuelan painter Eduardo Sch…

  • Poliedro de Caracas

    The Poliedro de Caracas ("Caracas Polyhedron Arena") is an indoor sports arena, located on the grounds adjacent to Hipodromo La Rinconada, in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed by architect Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc, in Raleigh, NC in 19…

  • La Asunción

    La Asunción (Spanish pronunciation: [la asunˈsjon]) is a city in Venezuela. The capital of Nueva Esparta state (made up of three islands), it lies on the Isla Margarita in the Caribbean Sea, off the South American mainland. It is 6 miles inland from…

  • Kukenán-tepui

    Kukenán, also known as Matawi, is a tepui in Guayana Region, Venezuela. It is 2,680 metres (8,790 ft) high and about 3 km (1.9 mi) long. Kukenan Falls, which is 674 m (2,211 ft) high, is located at the south end of the tepui.

  • Blanquilla Island

    Blanquilla is an island, one of the federal dependencies of Venezuela, located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea about 182 miles northeast of Caracas. It is a popular location for divers, as well as famous for its white sand beaches, for which it is…

  • Yagua people

    Yagua people are an indigenous people in Colombia and northeastern Peru, numbering approximately 6,000. Currently, they live near the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo and Yavari rivers and their tributaries.

  • Mosque of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Ibrahim

    The Mosque Ibrahim Ibin Abdul Aziz Al-Ibrahim or Caracas Mosque is a mosque in the El Recreo district of Caracas. it is the second largest mosque in Latin America after the King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. Mirroring modern Venezuel…

  • Los Roques Airport

    Los Roques Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Los Roques) (IATA: LRV, ICAO: SVRS) – a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island in the Los Roques archipelago off the coast of mainland Venezuela, some 130 km north of Caracas.

  • Las Aves archipelago

    The Las Aves Archipelago is a pristine archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, and is part of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela. It is located north of the Venezuelan states of Aragua and Carabobo, between the Dutch island Bonaire in the west, and the…

  • Cubagua

    Cubagua or Isla de Cubagua (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ðe kuˈβaɣwa]) is the smallest and least populated of the 3 islands constituting the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta, after Isla Margarita and Coche.

  • 1967 Caracas earthquake

    The 1967 Caracas earthquake occurred on 29 July at 20:00 local time, and was centered near the coast about 30 miles west of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela with a magnitude of 6.5. When the earth stopped shaking, about 240 inhabitants were dead an…

  • San Juan de los Morros

    San Juan de los Morros (Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ xwan de loz ˈmoros]) is the capital of the Guárico state and capital of the Juan Germán Roscio municipality, and is a town located in central Venezuela.

  • Carúpano

    Carúpano is a city in the eastern Venezuelan state of Sucre. It is located on the Venezuelan Caribbean coast at the opening of two valleys, some 120 km east of the capital of Sucre, Cumaná.

  • Araya

    Araya is a town located on Venezuela's Caribbean coast, on the easternmost extremity of the Araya Peninsula.

  • Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport

    Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana International Airport (IATA: PZO, ICAO: SVPR), is an airport in the city of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela. Ciudad Guayana has two population centres, Puerto Ordaz (where the airport is located), and San Félix.

  • Chuao

    Chuao is a small village located in the northern coastal range of Venezuela. It was founded in the 16th century. The village is famous for its cacao plantations, where some of the finest cocoa beans in the world are produced.

  • Chivacoa

    Chivacoa is a city in Yaracuy, Venezuela. It has a population of about 60,000. This town is very famous by Mystic Rituals in Sorte Mountain. Maria Lionza. Their Carnival Party is famous too.

  • Chacao, Venezuela

    Chacao is one of the five political and administrative subdivisions of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. The other four are Baruta, El Hatillo, Libertador and Sucre. This legal entity is known as the Caracas Metropolitan District. Chacao is also one o…

  • Sabaneta, Barinas

    Sabaneta is a town in Venezuela's Barinas State. It is the birthplace of the late President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. Sabaneta is the capital of Alberto Arvelo Torrealba Municipality in Barinas.

  • Guarenas

    Guarenas is a city in Miranda, Venezuela. It was established in 1621 as Nuestra Señora de Copacabana de los Guarenas. It is part of the Guarenas-Guatire conurbation

  • Cordillera de Mérida

    The Cordillera de Mérida is a series of mountain ranges, or massif, in northwestern Venezuela. The Cordillera de Mérida is a northeastern extension of the Andes Mountains. The ranges run southwest-northeast between the Venezuelan-Colombian border an…

  • Camilo Daza International Airport

    Camilo Daza International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Camilo Daza) (IATA: CUC, ICAO: SKCC) is a civil airport located in Cúcuta, Colombia. The airport serves the Norte de Santander Department (Spanish: North Santander State).

  • Solano castle

    Solano castle is a colonial castle built in the eighteenth century by the Spanish monarchy in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Located inside the San Esteban National Park, the castle was built to protect the commercial complex of the city and the harbour…

  • Santa Elena de Uairén

    Santa Elena de Uairén (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta eˈlena ðe waiˈɾen]) is a small Venezuelan city (29,795 inhabitants in 2006) in the state of Bolívar near the border with Brazil and Guyana.