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The area and population figures are for the municipality
El Tigre is a city of Anzoategui, a state located east of Venezuela's capital city of Caracas. Located in what is called the "Guanipa Mesa", a river (Tigre) runs across the city. The average temperature is 79°F, all year around, and the annual average rainfall is 1,200mm.[1] One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire Cliffs.
El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito, capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is 84,526 inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be 291,472 inhabitants.
Since the appointment of Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of the most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El Tigre currently shows an increase in the establishment of companies of services to the oil industry that is constantly growing and have also been presented innumerable construction projects for new shopping malls, business buildings or towers and other works for the significant activation of tourism.
History
In the 1930s a large field of light crude oil was discovered near El Tigrito by the Mene Grande Oil Company (MGO), a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation.[2] The Oficina No. 1 well, a wildcat well begun in 1933 and completed in 1937, established the highly productive Oficina Formation.[3] The oil discovery led to the founding of El Tigre on February 23, 1933 when Mene Grande established their offices in Campo Oficina. El Tigre quickly became a boomtown. The name "Oficina" (Office) was derived from the telegraph office in El Tigrito. Until the oil discovery, the area had been sparsely populated. By 1940 a road and an oil pipeline had been constructed to connect El Tigre with Puerto La Cruz.[2] By 1946, 512 wells had been drilled, and the region had produced 127 million barrels of oil.[3] The nearby oil company camp San Tomé was built near El Tigre as the main camp for Mene Grande.[4]
Demographics
The Simón Rodríguez Municipality, according to the 2011 Venezuelan census, has a population of 194,858 inhabitants (went up from 155,178 in 2000). This amounts to 12.4% of Anzoátegui's population.[1]
Geography
Limits
Bolívar Square in El Tigre.
About the territorial extension of the municipality in which the city is located, it is 702 km2 and delimited by the following territories:
Northeast: borders the municipalities Pedro Maria Freites and Guanipa. South: bordering the municipality Francisco de Miranda. East: borders the municipality Guanipa. West: bordering the municipality Francisco de Miranda. Southeast: municipalities bordering Guanipa and Independencia.
Climate
The climate is of savannah and temperatures ranging between 68°F (20 degrees C) and 96.8°F (37 degrees C), with an average of 80.6°F (27 degrees C) approximately.
El Tigre is the shire town of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality in Anzoátegui. The mayor of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality is Ernesto Raydan, elected in 2017 with 51.95% of the votes.[6]
Main roads to other cities
National Trunk Highway Km 15 (Saint Joseph, El Tigre, Pariaguán).
National Trunk Highway Km 16 (Cantaura, El Tigre, Ciudad Bolivar).
Regional Road (El Tigre – Atapirire)
Notable people
Ricardo Martins, footballer who plays for Deportivo Anzoátegui as a midfielder
Jose Bonilla (boxer), former World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight (112lb) champion.
José Catire Carpio, (December 19, 1940 – June 26, 2006), was a Venezuelan llanero singer.
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