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Encyclopedia Britannica



VALENCIA

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 846 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TUM-VAN
VALENCIA , a city of
Venezuela
  and
capital
  of the state of Carabobo, IiI m. by rail W.S.W. of Caracas, and 24 M. direct (334 M. by rail) S. by E. of Puerto Cabello. Pop. (1894) 38,654. There is railway connexion with Caracas by the
Great
 
Venezuela
  line (German) and with Puerto Cabello by the Puerto Cabello and Valencia line (
English
 ), which crosses the N. range of the Maritime Andes. There is also a steamboat service on Lake Valencia. The city is situated on the N.W. border of a lacustrine plain occupied in
great
 
part
  by Lake Tacarigua, or Valencia,' and nearly 2 M. from its western margin. It is beautifully situated in a large fertile valley between parallel ranges of the Maritime Andes, about 1625 ft. above sea-level, and in the midst of
rich
  plantations and luxuriant tropical vegetation. The climate is mild and pleasant, the temperature ranging from 66 to 87 F.
i Lake Valencia occupies one of the so-called Aragua valleys, enclosed between the parallel ranges of the Maritime Andes. It is 1348 ft. above the sea, is about 3o m.
long
 , has an area of 216 sq. m., and a catchment basin of 1782 sq. m., and lies partly in the state of Aragua. It includes a number of small islands, some inhabited, and receives the waters of a
score
  of small streams from the surrounding mountains.with an annual mean of 76, and the rainfall being about the same as that of Caracas, or 23 to 30 in. Near Valencia on the Puerto Cabello railway are the Las Trincheras thermal springs. Among Valencia's public edifices and institutions are some good churches, the government palace, a university, a national college for women, a normal school for men and a public library.
Valencia was founded in 1555 and is older than Caracas. It was occupied for a time in 1561 by Aguirre and his band of out-
laws
 . At the beginning of the War of Independence it was made the
capital
  of Venezuela, and the patriot congress was in session there in 1812 when Caracas was destroyed by an
earthquake
 . It changed masters several times during the war, its most famous events being two successful defences in 1814 against Spanish besieging forces. The town suffered much in the war and from subsequent revolutions, but the remarkable productiveness of the surrounding districts and its advantageous commercial position ensured a prompt recovery from all reverses.


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