Curiapo | |
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 View of Curiapo | |
  Curiapo | |
| Coordinates: 8°34′48″N60°59′51″W / 8.58000°N 60.99750°W | |
| Country |  Venezuela |
| State | Delta Amacuro |
| Municipality | Antonio Díaz Municipality |
| Time zone | VST |
| Climate | Af |
Curiapo is a village in the Delta Amacuro, capital of the Antonio Díaz Municipality in Venezuela.
In 2001 there were some 2880 Warao Indians registered in the parish. [1]
There are a couple of basic schools in town. Escuela Pedernales is the biggest one.[ citation needed ]
Venezuela is divided into 23 states (estados), 1 Capital District (Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales de Ultramar) that consist of numerous Venezuelan islands. These administrative divisions are grouped into regions.
Delta Amacuro State is one of the 23 states of Venezuela, and is the location of the Orinoco Delta. The Paria Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean are found to the north, Bolívar State is found to the south, the Atlantic Ocean and Guyana are found to the east, and Monagas State is found to the west. The state capital city is Tucupita.
The Gulf of Paria is a 7,800 km2 (3,000 sq mi) shallow semi-enclosed inland sea located between the island of Trinidad and the east coast of Venezuela. It separates the two countries by as little as 15 km at its narrowest and 120 km at its widest points. The tides within the Gulf are semi-diurnal in nature with a range of approximately 1m. The Gulf of Paria is considered to be one of the best natural harbors on the Atlantic coast of the Americas. The jurisdiction of the Gulf of Paria is split between Trinidad and Venezuela with Trinidad having control over approximately 2,940 km2 (1,140 sq mi) (37.7%) and Venezuela the remainder (62.3%).
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states, a Capital District and the Federal Dependencies, which consist of many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Venezuela claims the disputed Essequibo territory as one of its states, which it calls Guayana Esequiba, but the territory is controlled by Guyana as part of six of its regions.
The anthem for Delta Amacuro State, Venezuela, was written by José Joaquín de León; the music for it was written by José Inés Richemón.
Tucupita is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro.
The Warao are an Indigenous Amerindian people inhabiting northeastern Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname. Alternate common spellings of Warao are Waroa, Guarauno, Guarao, and Warrau. The term Warao translates as "the boat people", after the Warao's lifelong and intimate connection to the water. Most Warao inhabit Venezuela's Orinoco Delta region, with smaller numbers in neighbouring Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Suriname. With a population of 49,271 people in Venezuela during the 2011 census, they were the second largest indigenous group after the Wayuu people. They speak an agglutinative language, Warao.
The Guayana Region is an administrative region of eastern Venezuela.
Aspidosperma ulei is a timber tree native to Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, and Suriname.
Venezuela uses the UTC−04:00 time offset, and they had previously used UTC−04:30 from 9 December 2007 until 30 April 2016. The time is commonly called Venezuelan Standard Time (VET), and legally referred to as Hora Legal de Venezuela (HLV) or Venezuela's Legal Time. The HLV is administered by the Navigation and Hydrography Service, in the Cagigal Naval Observatory, Caracas.
The Antonio Díaz Municipality is one of the four municipalities (municipios) that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 26,655. The town of Curiapo is the municipal seat of the Antonio Díaz Municipality.
The Casacoima Municipality is one of the four municipalities (municipios) that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro. according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 31,706. The town of Sierra Imataca is the shire town of the Casacoima Municipality.
The Tucupita Municipality is one of the four municipalities (municipios) that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 93,368. The town of Tucupita is the municipal of the Tucupita Municipality.
The Delta Amacuro softtail is a Vulnerable species of bird in the Furnariinae subfamily of the ovenbird family Furnariidae. It is endemic to the southern Orinoco Delta in northeastern Venezuela.
The Federal Territories is a special political division in the territory of Venezuela. Their existence is provided for in Article 16 of the National Constitution of 1999, with the national government in charge of administration according to law. Currently, there are no Federal Territories in the country because they were elevated to the category of State within the Venezuelan Federation.
Sthefany Yoharlis Gutiérrez Gutiérrez is a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2017. She represented the state of Delta Amacuro at the pageant and represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe 2018 competition where she placed as the 2nd Runner-Up.
Miss Venezuela 2019 was the 66th Miss Venezuela pageant, held at the Estudio 5 de Venevisión in Caracas, Venezuela, on August 1, 2019.
Lulyana Thalía Olvino Torres is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Venezuela 2019. She represented the state of Delta Amacuro at the pageant and represented Venezuela at the Miss Universe 2019 competition where she placed as Top 20.
The Delta Federal Territory, later Delta Amacuro, is the name by which the current Delta Amacuro State of Venezuela was known until 1991.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Población indígena en los municipios del Delta Amacuro