CIUDAD

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CIUDAD BOLf VAR, an inland city and river port of

Venezuela

VENEZUELA

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the state of Bolivar, on the right bank of the Orinoco river, 240 M. above its mouth. Pop. (1891) 11,686. It stands upon a small hill about 187 ft. above sea-level, and faces the river where it narrows to a width of less than half a mile. The city is largely built upon the hillside. It is the seat of the bishopric of Guayana (founded in 1790), and is the commercial centre of the

great

GREAT

Orinoco basin. Among its noteworthy edifices are the

cathedral

CATHEDRAL

, federal college, theatre, masonic temple, market, custom-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, and

hospital

. The mean temperature is 83. The city has a public water-

supply

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

, a tramway line, telephone service, subfluvial cable communication with Soledad near the mouth of the Orinoco, where connexion is made with the national land lines, and regular steamship communication with the lower and upper Orinoco. Previous to the revolution of 190I-3 Ciudad Bolivar ranked fourth among the Venezuelan custom-houses, but the restrictions placed upon transit trade through West Indian ports have made her a dependency of the La Guaira custom-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

to a large extent. The principal exports from this region include cattle, horses, mules, tobacco, cacao, rubber, tonka beans, bitters, hides, timber and many valuable forest products. The town was founded by

Mendoza

in 1764 as San Tomas de la Nueva Guayana, but its location at this particular point on the river gave to it the popular name of Angostura, the Spanish

term

TERM

for " narrows." This name was used until 1849, when that of the Venezuelan liberator was bestowed upon it. Ciudad Bolivar played an important part in the struggle for independence and was for a time the headquarters of the revolution. The town suffered severely in the struggle for its possession, and the political disorders which followed greatly retarded its growth.

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