E BOLIVAR STATE

Guyana offers visitors unparalleled natural beauty in combination with a fascinating and glorious history. Angel Falls is the highest in the world, was born in Angostura Gran Colombia, a land of legends and mystery, of gold mines and diamond adventure rubber, tonka beans and balata, Indian tribes and the jungle.

El Dorado, wanted by the Spanish conquerors so eagerly is becoming reality, but in a way that they had not ever imagined: eco-tourism at its steel plant and hydroelectric development.

Nature has endowed this land as may be desired legendary: stately rivers, gigantic waterfalls, vast virgin forests and extraordinary flora and fauna.

SITUATION AND LIMITS

North States Guarico, Anzoategui, Monagas and Delta Amacuro. South: Brazil and the State Amazonas . East: Area and Brazil claim. West: Apure State.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

Guayana region. South of Venezuela.

CLIMATE AND ALTITUDE

27 ° c. 40 m above sea level.

SURFACE

240 528 km2. 26.24% of the country. It is the entity with the largest areas of the country.

TYPES OF LANDSCAPE

Mountain Tepuyes, Diving, Forests and Rivers.

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS FOR TOWNS

BOLIVAR CITY, STATE CAPITAL: Population 2010, 350 691 inhabitants, is located on the banks of the Orinoco River, was founded in 1764 as "Santo Tome de Guayana New Angostura del Orinoco." This important city has a historical heritage, cultural and environmental and relevant rich, concentrated in its historic center, a National Monument since 1976. Tourism offers alternatives for Historical, Cultural and Ecological. It is recommended to visit among other attractions: Paseo Orinoco and its extension to the Lakes "The Franks" and "The Middle" The Carioca, the Old Quarter, the various museums especially the "Jesus Soto", the Cathedral House San Isidro, the Botanical Garden of the Orinoco, and the Spa "Candelaria."

Congress of Angostura Casa: Casa colonial structure built by the government of the city's co-founder Manuel Centurion, between 1766 and 1776 for school Latin and a few letters. In 1817, after the site and narrow making for the Patriots, the liberator of it destined home of government, free now to be installed and deliberate on it by the Congress of Angostura in 1819. Location: Old Quarter, Constitution Street, Ciudad Bolivar.  

Catedral Metropolitana de Ciudad Bolivar, begun in 1764, the year of the founding of the city, declared a cathedral in 1890. It is the cathedral church of Indian higher order in Venezuela, there are enthroned employers, "Saint Thomas the Apostle and Our Lady of the Snows." Location: Old Quarter. Boulevard Bolivar, Ciudad Bolivar.

Casa Piar: Data from colonial times, there lived the staff of the patriot army and was imprisoned in chief Manuel Piar, the days before his execution in the square of narrowness. Location: Boulevard Bolivar, Ciudad Bolivar historical ring.  

Plaza Bolivar: The historic center of the square of Angostura in the colony, transformed in 1869 in the square today, chaired by pedestrian bronze statue of the Liberator, a copy of Pietro Tenerani of Bogota's main square, is the first bronze statue erected at the pedestrian Libertador, Venezuela. Subsequently erected around statues representing the countries emancipated by his sword. Location: Old Quarter-Ciudad Bolivar.

Twelve House of Windows: Built to mid-century on top of the slab sapoara by Rafael Machado for his father Captain Joseph Thomas Machado, hero of independence. House of twelve wooden windows on the facade and in the rear, a large balcony overlooking the Paseo Orinoco. Location: between the street and walk Venezuela Orinoco-old quarter-Ciudad Bolivar.

Casa del Correo del Orinoco: neoclassical beautiful house. José Luis Cornieles, its owner and interim mayor, put at the disposal of the Liberator and his army in 1817. In this house, was released on 27 June 1818, the "Correo del Orinoco" official organ of the Third Republic and the most important spokesman for the patriot cause. Location: Paseo Orinoco-Carabobo-historic street-Ciudad Bolivar.

Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto ": Opened in 1973. Carlos Raúl Villanueva was the architect of the work. It has showrooms of contemporary visual arts, particularly of the famous Guyanese artist Jesus Soto. " Location: Germania Avenue and Calle Mario Briceño Iragorri-Ciudad Bolivar.

Angostura Bridge: Opened on 6 January 1967, has a length of 1678 meters. This important engineering work that rises over the course of the Orinoco River is the largest suspension bridge in South America and ninth in the world, joins Soledad Ciudad Bolivar, a town of Anzoategui. Location: between Punta Chacon and white beach-Ciudad Bolivar.

Botanical Garden of the Orinoco: Centre for collection and botanical research, exposure of native and exotic plants of Guyana. Location: Calle Bolivar c / calle Caracas-Ciudad Bolivar.

Casa San Isidro: Historic house where Bolivar wrote the Constitution Centralist and the famous message to Congress of Angostura in 1819, then was a farm owned by the mayor José Luis Cornieles, to whom it provided the freedom to live in it. In front there is a tamarind tree where the liberator tied his horse. Location: Avenida Tachira-Ciudad Bolivar.

Rio Orinoco: Born in the mountainous slopes of the Sierra Parima-Tapirapeco which is the boundary between Brazil and Venezuela. The Orinoco basin is 880,000 square kilometers, of which 640 000 are in Venezuelan territory. Guayana highland tributaries, due to the relief phased present numerous waterfalls. It is navigable from Puerto Ayacucho (Amazonas State) and from Ciudad Bolivar can sail big ships.