Caicara del Orinoco
Caicara del Orinoco | |
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| Coordinates: 7°39′N 66°10′W / 7.650°N 66.167°W | |
| Area | |
• Total | 38 km2 (15 sq mi) |
| • Water | 0.16 km2 (0.06 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (VET) |
Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela.
Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara. When completed the bridge will be 2.4 km long.
Prehistory
[edit]Alexander von Humboldt discovered petroglyphs carved in the granite and gneiss near the river at Caicara.[1] Further investigation revealed a large number of prehistoric petroglyphs in the area.[1]
History
[edit]It was founded in the middle of the Eighteenth Century.
Politics
[edit]The Mayor of Caicara del Orinoco is Rafael Gutiérrez,[2] a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Bendrat, T. A. (1912). "Discovery of Some New Petroglyphs near Caicara on the Orinoco" American Journal of Archaeology 16(4): pp. 518-523, pp. 518-519 (accessed via JSTOR)
- ^ Twitter https://twitter.com/rafaelgpsuv?lang=en. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
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