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14 unusual facts about Venezuela


2014 South American Beach Games

The 2014 South American Beach Games (Spanish:Juegos Suramericanos de Playa), officially the III South American Beach Games, will be an international multi-sport event being held in Vargas, Venezuela.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Cristóbal Rojas

Cristóbal Rojas, Venezuela, a municipality in the Venezuelan state of Miranda, named after the artist

Daniel Montbars

He looted and set fire to Porto Caballo, San Pedro, Gibraltar and Maricaibo, among other Spanish strongholds, and captured or destroyed numerous other forts and settlements.

Heliamphora exappendiculata

Heliamphora exappendiculata (Latin: ex = without, appendicula = small appendage) is a species of marsh pitcher plant native to the Chimantá and Aprada Massifs of Bolívar state, Venezuela.

Heliamphora sarracenioides

Heliamphora sarracenioides (Latin: Sarracenia = genus of North American pitcher plants, -oides = resembling) is a species of marsh pitcher plant endemic to Ptari Tepui in Bolívar state, Venezuela.

History of the United States Virgin Islands

Experts at canoe building and seamanship, the Arawaks migrated from the Amazon River Valley and Orinoco regions of Venezuela and Brazil, settling on the islands near coasts and rivers.

ISODE

isode or iso'de is the name of the communal dwellings of the Piaroa, an indigenous American ethnic group living along the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

La Quebrada

La Quebrada, Venezuela, also known as La Quebrada de San Roque, capital of Urdaneta Municipality, Trujillo.

Michel de Grammont

De Grammont landed his men in Spanish-held Venezuela and captured Maracaibo then followed the capture and plundering of several smaller towns as Gibraltar, penetrating as far inland as Trujillo.

Miss Mujerzuela

Miss Mujerzuela is the third album of the Venezuelan Latin Rock group Caramelos de Cianuro.

Moise Vauquelin

Vauquelin was one of several officers serving in this expedition and was present at the raids against Maracaibo and Gibraltar in 1666 and Puerto de Cavallo and San Pedro in 1667.

Mudslide

On December 14, 1999 in Vargas, Venezuela, a mudslide known as The Vargas tragedy, which significantly altered more than 60 kilometers (37 mi) of its coastline, was triggered due to heavy rainfall and caused estimated damages of USD $1.79 to $3.5 billion, a death toll considered to be between 10,000 and 30,000, 85,000 people evacuated and led to the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Tamunangue

It is celebrated in Lara State in Venezuela on the June 13 every year as festival to St. Anthony of Padua the patron saint of that state.It is usually began with an invocation to Virgin Mary.It is combination suite of music,dance with drums.It is a mixture representing native Indians, the Spanish and African traditions.


1960 Caribbean Series

The XII edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was a baseball tournament held from February 10 through February 15, 1960 featuring the champion teams from Cuba (Cienfuegos), Panama (Marlboro), Puerto Rico (Caguas) and Venezuela (Rapiños).

2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis

However, rather than apologizing, Chávez simply recalled Venezuela's own ambassador to Mexico City, Vladimir Villegas.

Agostino Codazzi

Agustin Codazzi meanwhile took the Venezuelan citizenship from president José Antonio Páez and become Governor of Barinas, a region of southwestern Venezuela.

Andrés Manzanillo

Andrés Manzanillo (born August 1, 1977) is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Avior

Avior Airlines - an airline based in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, Venezuela

Berghia creutzbergi

Berghia creutzbergi is an inhabitant of Western Atlantic Ocean, present in Florida, Costa Rica, ABC Islands (Curaçao); Venezuela (Dependencias Federales), Bahamas (Great or Little Abaco), Grand Cayman Island, Barbados, and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro).

Biofilo Panclasta

He soon left this group behind and wandered around Venezuela with other revolutionary groups that prowled through Trujillo, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Carabobo.

Bjørn Sletto

Over the last 10 years, he has lived and worked in indigenous villages and border cities in Venezuela, investigating environmental conflicts and land rights struggles and conducting participatory mapping projects with the Pemon in the Gran Sabana and Yukpa in the Sierra de Perijá.

Bonnetia bolivarensis

It is found only in Venezuela, known only from a single locality in the summit savanna of Ptari-tepui, in Canaima National Park in Bolívar.

César Batiz

On February 10, 2012, Batiz reported that Jose Rojas, former Venezuelan finance minister and former Venezuelan representative to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, had denied any connection to a “fraudulent scheme” engineered by Venezuelan-American financier Illaramendi Francisco and involving funds from Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).

Charles DeForest Fredricks

In 1843, at the suggestion of his brother, Fredricks sailed for Angostura, today Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela.

Charolais cattle

In Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela, following the rural flight of farmers, many Charolais cattle were abandoned; they have survived in the wild feeding on Espeletia schultzii, a high altitude shrub.

Colares stingray

The range of the Colares stingray appears restricted to the mouth of the Amazon River in northern Brazil, in the estuarine area affected by the river's freshwater discharge; it may also occur in adjacent areas as far as Venezuela.

Corallus

South America in Colombia east of the Andes, north of the Cordillera Central and north of the Cordillera Oriental, northern Venezuela north of the Cordillera de Mérida and in the drainage of the Río Orinoco, north and west of the Guiana Shield, east of the Orinoco Delta.

Eileen Abad

Eileen Abad (born in Caracas, Venezuela on November 15, 1973) is a Venezuelan actress and model of national and international experience acting in many films, soap operas.

Eugene Biel-Bienne

From 1954 to 1956, he lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where his sister lived, and he exhibited his paintings in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo.

Fernando Amorebieta

Born in Cantaura, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, Amorebieta met Athletic Bilbao's eligibility standards, having been raised in the Basque Country, and through his parents, both of whom hailed from the region.

Fundacomez

It was created in September 2004 and can be seen in the Machiques de Perija Municipality of the Zulia State of Venezuela on UHF channel 69.

Guajiboan languages

Guajiboan (also Guahiban, Wahívoan, Guahiboan) is a language family spoken in the Orinoco River region in eastern Colombia and southwestern Venezuela, which is a savannah-like area known in Colombia as the Llanos.

Gustavo Valderrama

Gustavo Valderrama (born July 31, 1977 in Zulia State) is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

H. glabra

Heliamphora heterodoxa, a marsh pitcher plant species native to Gran Sabana and the plateau of the Ptari-Tepui in Venezuela

Hugo Vásquez

Hugo Vásquez (born on March 5, 1976 in Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor.

Jorge Zambrano

In the year 1989 he participated in the animation contest "Animathon" sponsored by the Canadian embassy in Venezuela, where he met his master Felix Nakamura, who would accompany during much of his career in Venezuela.

José Bardina

He was popular not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, after the telenovelas produced by Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión reached its peak during the 1970s decade.

Juan Cruz Gill

In 2011, he traveled to Venezuela and signed for Estudiantes de Mérida and the next year, Cruz Gill returned to Chile and joined to Primera B side Unión Temuco, team of the Chilean star Marcelo Salas, who currently is retired after a successful career at his country Argentine and Italy.

Karen Soto

Soto was crowned Miss Venezuela World 2013 during the first edition of Miss Venezuela World pageant, held on August 10, 2013 in Caracas.

María Guinand

In 1992, she founded two important projects for the promotion of academic music in Venezuela: the “Academia Bach de Venezuela”, Venezuela’s Chapter of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, and the “Academia Nacional de Canto Gregoriano” and the “Coral Fundación Empresas Polar”.

Metal Aircraft Corporation Flamingo

The Metal Aircraft Corporation Flamingo that crashed above the falls was recovered by helicopter in the 1960s by the Venezuelan government and is on display at the entrance of the Ciudad Bolívar airport, in Venezuela.

Military career of Simón Bolívar

When the expeditionary force arrived in Venezuela, it found that most of it had been restored to royalist control, save for Margarita Island, which surrendered to it with no blood shed.

Miss Colombia 2008

The former panel of judges was composed by Olga Sinclair (Panama), Pablo Jiménez Burillo (Spain), Sylvia Loria (Costa Rica), Thomas P. Murray (United States), Giovanni Scutaro (Venezuela).

Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar

Hosted by Alan Yentob, the film took a detailed look at the unique music education system of Venezuela, of which the orchestra is an integral part, and described a recent attempt to imitate its success in Raploch, a deprived district of the city of Stirling, Scotland.

Paul Arcelin

He has written for such well-known newspapers as El Nacional of Caracas, Venezuela, El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Observateur of Haiti.

Perenco

It has exploration and production activities in 16 countries across the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Belize, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Vietnam).

Reinaldo Lizardi

Reinaldo Lizardi (born October 23, 1954) is a retired sprinter from Venezuela, best known for winning the bronze medal in the men's 100 metres at the 1979 South American Championships in Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Rhinodoras

Rhinodoras has been identified in the fossil record from the late Miocene Urumaco Formation (about 9 million years of age), Falcón State, Venezuela.

Rick Chartraw

Raymond Richard Chartraw (born July 13, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 420 games in the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1984.

Roberto Eduardo Carboni

In 2006 Carboni relocated to Venezuela, signing a contract with Estudiantes de Mérida.

Roberto Vander

In 1997 he participated in a telenovela with Televisa and next year he made Enséñame a querer with Venevisión, the most important television network in Venezuela.

Santiago Rosario

′′Chago′′, as his teammates dubbed him, helped offensively and defensively his team, which won a silver medal in the event as a runner-up for the Venezuelan squad.

Sanumá language

In Venezuela, Sanumá is spoken in the vicinity of the Caura and Ervato-Ventuari Rivers in Venezuela, and the Auari River and Roraima region in Brazil.

Serenata Guayanesa

In June 1971, the Bolivar state native singers and musicians Mauricio Castro Rodríguez (countertenor and drums), Hernán Gamboa (tenor and cuatro player), Iván Pérez Rossi (baritone and second cuatro player) and César Pérez Rossi (bass and drums) who were already experienced in playing and singing in other musical groups, met to sing together informally with some friends at the house of the then-governor, Manuel Guarrido.

Soybean rust

It is commonly believed that the disease was carried from Venezuela to the United States by Hurricane Ivan.

The Yale Globalist

In 2007, Globalist writers were in Venezuela during the controversial closing of the cable television station RCTV.

Transport in Argentina

On August 23, 2008, a deal was signed between Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela to develop an electified railway link between these countries.

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

On December 27, 1945, the owners of the Caracas Brewery (Cervecería Caracas, present day Caracas Lions or Leones del Caracas), Vargas Wisemen (Sabios de Vargas), the Magellan Navigators (Navegantes del Magallanes), and Venezuela BBC created the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Venezuelan regional elections, 2004

The 2004 regional elections of Venezuela were held on 31 October 2004 to elect 22 governors and 2 metropolitan mayors for a four-year term beginning in 2004 and ending in 2008, when the next regional elections were held.

Yaque

Yaque or Cují Yaque, an emblematic tree in Venezuela

Yaruro language

The Yaruro language (also spelled Llaruro or Yaruru; also called Yuapín or Pumé) is an indigenous language spoken by Yaruro people, along the Orinoco, Sinaruco, Meta, and Apure rivers of Venezuela.