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Chaguaramas is a town in northern Venezuela, in the state of Guárico. It is the shire town of the Chaguaramas Municipality.
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Chaguaramas is a town in northern Venezuela, in the state of Guárico. It is the shire town of the Chaguaramas Municipality.
In 2006, it was proposed to build a new railway line to this station.[ citation needed ]
Transport in Venezuela revolves around a system of highways and airports. Venezuela is connected to the world primarily via air and sea. In the south and east the Amazon rainforest region has limited cross-border transport; in the west, there is a mountainous border of over 1,375 miles (2,213 km) shared with Colombia. The Orinoco River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to 400 km inland, and connects the major industrial city of Ciudad Guayana to the Atlantic Ocean.
Guárico State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is San Juan de Los Morros and the largest city is Calabozo, other important city centers include Valle de la Pascua and Zaraza. Guárico State covers a total surface area of 64,986 km2 (25,091 sq mi) and, in 2011, had a census population of 747,739. It is named for the Guárico River.
Chaguaramas lies in the Northwest Peninsula of Trinidad west of Port of Spain; the name is often applied to the entire peninsula, but is sometimes used to refer to its most developed area. The developed area in Chaguaramas starts at an Aloca aluminum manufacturing plant and dock, and ends at the Army and Coast Guard camps on the mainland. Offshore, a group known as The Five Islands are in various stages of development or redevelopment, as of 2016.
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Gaspar Grande or Gasparee is an island in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago named for Gaspar de Percín. The island is 1.29 km2 in area and lies 12 km (7.5 mi) west of Port of Spain. It is one of the "Bocas Islands", which lie in the Bocas del Dragón between Trinidad and Venezuela.
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Valle de la Pascua is the capital city of the autonomous municipality of Leonardo Infante, Guárico, Venezuela. The city is located in the central plains of Venezuela and was founded on February 25, 1785, by Father Mariano Martí. Along with Zaraza, Calabozo and San Juan de Los Morros, Valle de la Pascua is one of the most important cities in the state of Guárico and the most important economically. The vicinity of the city was the scene of the Battle of Valle de la Pascua in February 1814.
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San Felipe is the capital city of Yaracuy, Venezuela. San Felipe is located in the Central-Western Region, Venezuela. The city is an important urban, industrial, commercial and transportation center of Venezuela. San Felipe is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Felipe, Venezuela.
AMERICAS-II is a fiber optic submarine communications cable that carries telecommunications between Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Curaçao, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname and Guyana, and Brazil. It has been in service since August 2000 and is operated on a common carrier basis.
Araya may refer to:
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Miss Venezuela 1998 was the 45th Miss Venezuela pageant, was held in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 11, 1998, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Carolina Indriago, Miss Delta Amacuro.
Prostitution in Trinidad and Tobago is legal but related activities such as brothel keeping, soliciting and pimping are illegal.
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Chaguaramas can refer to:
Lucbel Carolina Indriago Pinto is a Venezuelan-American TV host and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the first woman of noticeably African heritage to win the Miss Venezuela title. Indriago was the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1998 and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1999 pageant held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago on May 26, 1999 when she ended up with a Top 5 finish in the competition.
Venancio Antonio Morín was a Venezuelan military officer and politician. Morín supported the federalists during the Federal War and later Joaquín Crespo and yellow liberalism on several occasions, playing significant military role in the region, participating in the April Revolution, the Legalist Revolution, and quelling uprisings against Crespo. He also held several political positions, including as a member of the Guzmán Blanco state Supreme Court, civil and military chief of the Monagas district, and deputy to the Constituent Assembly for Miranda state.
Chaguaramas Municipality is one of the 15 municipalities of the state of Guárico, Venezuela. It has an area of 2,069 square kilometres (799 sq mi) and is estimated to have a population of 12,966 inhabitants as of 2011 according to the census. Its capital is the town of Chaguaramas in the east of the municipality.
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