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	Gulf of Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gulf of Venezuela is a gulf of the Caribbean Sea bounded by the Venezuelan states of Zulia and Falcón.
		The Gulf is located in the north of South America, between the peninsulas of Paraguaná of the Falcón State in Venezuela and Guajira's in Colombia and is connected to the Lake Maracaibo through an artificial navigation canal.
		Alongside to emphasize that it is used to the Archipelago of Monks as the imaginary division between the Caribbean Sea and the above-mentioned body of water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulf_of_Venezuela (182 words)

	Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated from the cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who in 1499 led a naval exploration of the northwestern coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela), along with Alonso de Ojeda.
		Venezuela was the site of one of the first permanent Spanish settlements in South America in 1522, and most of the territory eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada.
		Venezuela is home to a wide variety of landscapes, such as the north-easternmost extensions of the Andes mountains in the northwest and along the northern Caribbean coast, of which the highest point is the Pico Bolívar at 5,007 m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venezuela (3145 words)

	MSN Encarta - Venezuela
		Venezuela’s landscapes range from the towering peaks of the Andes Mountains in the north to tropical jungles in the south.
		Venezuela is bounded by Colombia to the west, Brazil to the south, and Guyana to the east.
		Lake Maracaibo, an inland extension of the Gulf of Venezuela, dominates the Maracaibo lowlands.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560608/Venezuela.html (687 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Venezuela
		In the 18th century, the province of Venezuela was under the jurisdiction of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (created in 1717), since 1777 as Captaincy General of Venezuela.
		Venezuela, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a sovereign country.
		Hugo ChÃ¡vez in 1999, as President of Venezuela Hugo Rafael ChÃ¡vez FrÃas (born July 28, 1954) is the President of Venezuela.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Venezuela (2567 words)

	Venezuela -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ((The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country in northern (A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama) South America.
		The name of Venezuela was inspired by cartographer (Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512)) Amerigo Vespucci in 1499, during his naval exploration of the noroccidental coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela).
		Venezuela's national symbols include (additional info and facts about the Flag) the Flag, the (The official symbols of a family, state, etc.) Coat of Arms, and the (A song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation) National Anthem.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/venezuela.htm (2627 words)

	The Venezuela's Eco Portal to Eco-Tourism & Ecology
		The population from Venezuela (according to estimates for 2002) it belonged to 24.287.670 inhabitants, with a density of 27 hab/km².
		Venezuela is structured in 23 states, the Capital District, seat of the city of Caracas, and 74 islands in the sea Caribbean that you/they constitute the Federal Dependences.
		Venezuela is one of the countries with more variety of species of birds, among which highlight the macaws, toucans, guácharos, turpiales (national bird), paujíes or paujiles, corocoros or flamingos and a great variety of blue and parrots.
	ecoportal8.tripod.com /venezuela-in-the-world.htm (7959 words)

	CORO - LoveToKnow Article on CORO
		Coro stands on a sandy plain between the Caribbean and the Gulf of Venezuela, and near the isthmus connecting the peninsula of Paraguan with the mainland.
		Coro is the commercial centre for an extensive district on the E. side of Lake Maracaibo and the Gulf of Venezuela, which exports large quantities of goat-skins, an excellent quality of tobacco, and some coffee, cacao, castor beans, timber and dyewoods.
		Coro was also made the chief factory of the Welsers, the German banking house to which Charles V. mortgaged this part of his colonial possessions, and it was the starting-point for i~nany exploring and colonizing expeditions into the interior.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/CORO.htm (263 words)

	Venezuela Home
		Venezuela’s population is about 25.3 million (6/2005) and is approximately 68% mestizo (any combination of Indian, European or African ancestry), 21% white, 10% fl, and 1% Indian (native to the region).
		Venezuela’s diversity of animal and plant life can be attributed to the fact that there are four primary landscapes: the steamy Amazon, the snowy peaks of the Andes, the hot and flat savannas and the beaches and islands of the Caribbean.
		Dolphins are abundant along Venezuela’s coastline and the health and vitality of the reefs and the abundant marine life rivals any of the better-known diving destinations in the Caribbean.
	www.questconnect.org /sa_venezuela.htm (3002 words)

	Venezuela (07/05)
		The population of Venezuela is comprised of a combination of European, indigenous, and African heritages.
		Venezuela was a relatively neglected colony in the 1500s and 1600s as the Spaniards focused on extracting gold and silver from other areas of the Americas.
		Venezuela, along with what are now Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia until 1830, when Venezuela separated and became a separate sovereign country.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35766.htm (4514 words)

	Venezuela - Biocrawler definition:Venezuela - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: República Bolivariana de Venezuela) is a country in northern South America.
		The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated with the cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, when in 1499 led a naval exploration of the noroccidental coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela), along with Alonso de Ojeda.
		Venezuela became, after the revolutionary war, along with Colombia and Ecuador part of the Republic of Gran Colombia (República de Gran Colombia) until 1830, when the country separated and became a sovereign republic.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Venezuela (2115 words)

	Bolivia
		Venezuela’s population has grown at an annual average rate of 2.9 per cent in the half-century since 1920, with the death rate declining since 1936 from 16.1 to 6.6 per thousand today.
		In 1959, when a frontier agreement was signed between Venezuela and Colombia to permit free movement of people in the frontier areas [the Treaty of Tonchalá], it was said that Venezuela supplied the hospitals and Colombia supplied the patients, and this is the truth.
		The Colombian territorial access to the Gulf of Venezuela through the semidesert and sparsely populated Guajira region was first established in a somewhat ambiguous arbitration decree in 1891 by the Princess Regent Maria Cristina of Spain, and then confirmed in a 1941 treaty between the two countries that more specifically defined their land frontier.
	www.normangall.com /venezuela_art3.htm (9289 words)

	Venezuela Star - Venezuela News
		Venezuela´s Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel stated his government will apply the full Danilo Anderson died on November 18, 2004 in Caracas when he was...
		Venezuela claims a 19-kilometer zone from its coasts as territorial waters, but Caribbean and Venezuelan officials have said in previous years that they...
		Venezuela's unemployment rate dropped to 11.4 percent compared with 13.7 percent registered in the same month a year earlier, the state-run...
	www.venezuelastar.com /p.x/ct/10/id/262fd6adf564928c (1270 words)

	Gulf of Venezuela -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is bounded by the Guajira Peninsula on the west and by the Paraguaná Peninsula on the east and is connected with Lake Maracaibo to the south through Tablazo Bay and a channel 35 feet (11 m) deep near the city of Maracaibo.
		It is bounded by the Guajira Peninsula on the west and by the Paraguaná Peninsula on the east and is connected with Lake Maracaibo to the south through Tablazo Bay and a channel 35 feet (11 m) deep near the city of...
		Venezuela is bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and Colombia to the southwest and west.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9075021?tocId=9075021 (961 words)

	Land and Resourses - Venezuela - South America: gulf venezuela, flow orinoco, angel falls, mountain zone, lake maracaibo
		Venezuela has four distinct geographic regions: the Maracaibo lowlands, the northern Venezuelan highlands, the Llanos (plains) of the north central region, and the Guiana Highlands to the south.
		Situated in the northwest corner of Venezuela and nearly enclosed by mountains and highlands, the Maracaibo lowlands make up the smallest natural region of the country, with an area of 65,000 sq km (25,000 sq mi).
		A narrow channel 8 to 15 km (5 to 9 mi) wide connects the northern end of the lake to the Gulf of Venezuela, which is partially enclosed by the Paraguana and Guajira peninsulas.
	www.countriesquest.com /south_america/venezuela/land_and_resourses.htm (722 words)

	Maracaibo -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On the western shore of the channel connecting Lake Maracaibo with the Gulf of Venezuela, it is in a basin surrounded by higher land that excludes the steady trade winds and suffers from high temperatures (average daily highs are in the 90s Fahrenheit…
		On the western shore of the channel connecting Lake Maracaibo with the Gulf of Venezuela, it is in a basin surrounded by higher land that excludes the steady trade winds and suffers from high temperatures (average daily highs are in the 90s...
		It is located on a strait that connects the Gulf of Venezuela in the north with Lake Maracaibo in the south.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050726?tocId=9050726&query=null&ct=null (650 words)

	Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a country in northern South America.
		Venezuela was the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in South America in 1522, and the territory eventually became part of the viceroyalty of New Granada.
		Much of Venezuela's 19th and early 20th century history was characterised by periods of political instability, dictatorial rule, and revolutionary turbulence.
	www.enlightenweb.net /v/ve/venezuela.html (798 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Gulf of Venezuela
		Venezuela, Gulf of, formerly called Gulf of Maracaibo, inlet of the Caribbean Sea, northwestern Venezuela, extending from the peninsulas of Paraguaná...
		Maracaibo : Lake Maracaibo and Gulf of Venezuela
		Cumaná, city, northeastern Venezuela, capital of Sucre State, a seaport on the Manzanares River, near the Gulf of Cariaco.
	encarta.msn.com /Gulf_of_Venezuela.html (112 words)

	Venezuela
		Venezuela - Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, republic (1995 est.
		Venezuela: Government - Government Venezuela is governed under the 1999 constitution.
		Venezuela: History - History Early History and the Colonial Era The Arawaks and the Caribs were the earliest inhabitants...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108140.html (1103 words)

	CNN.com - Territorial water dispute simmering between U.S., Venezuela - November 1, 2000
		WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A dispute is brewing between Caracas and Washington over the status of the Gulf of Venezuela, where Venezuelan warplanes buzzed a U.S. Coast Guard vessel on October 21, officials said on Wednesday.
		Venezuela says that the body of water, a large inlet from the Caribbean, has always had the status of "internal waters," subject to Venezuelan sovereignty much as land would be.
		Venezuela passed a maritime law in 1956, and a presidential decree in 1968 established a straight baseline along the eastern coast of the country.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/11/01/venezuela.usa.reut (607 words)

	RIGZONE - Venezuela to Explore for Gas in Nation's Gulf Area
		Venezuela and Colombia have had a border dispute in that area that was never finally settled.
		Exploring the Gulf forms part of Venezuela's plans to offer seven offshore natural gas blocks in western Venezuela to foreign oil companies by the first half of next year.
		Venezuela already awarded a block of the Deltana platform last year to ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips while a second block went to Statoil.
	www.rigzone.com /news/article.asp?a_id=9454 (326 words)

	Venezuela: The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
		This map of the Gulf of Venezuela and of the entrance to Lake Maracaibo includes coastline, coastal features, soundings, currents, navigational hazards, the peninsulas of Guajira and Paraguaná, a fortification, and hachured relief of selected elevations.
		This map of Lake Maracaibo and a portion of the Gulf of Venezuela includes the lake, coastline, coastal features, navigational hazards, towns and cities, roads, numerous streams and other bodies of water, and hachured relief.
		This clear and precise map of the northeast coast of Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, includes coastlines, coastal features, navigational hazards, soundings, settlements, streams including the Orinoco River, and an ornate wind rose; map also includes an extensive note providing information on the means of access to timber in Venezuela.
	www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/venezuela.html (2125 words)

	Articles - Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Much to the displeasure of the United States government, ChÃ¡vez openly admits to attempting to establish socialism in Venezuela and flaunts close ties with Cuban President Fidel Castro.
		In December 2001, the umbrella group of the nation's largest business organizations, Fedecamaras, and several workers' groups, the ConfederaciÃ³n de Trabajadores de Venezuela and the petroleum workers' union, PDVSA, organized a general strike.
		Diosdado Cabello, Vice President of Venezuela, became temporary president as dictated by the constitution.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Venezuela (2605 words)

	Luminous Object In The Gulf Of Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A new sighting has been reported from the coastal state of Falcón, a region in which these enigmatic objects have been popularly classified by local residents as "avioncitos" (little airplanes) due to their breathtaking and customary appearances.
		On September 28, 2003, two witnesses observed the manuevers of an enormous luminous sphere that flew over the Punto Fijo region of Falcon, to the northwest of the Gulf of Venezuela.
		Likewise "confidential" unofficial communications made by the crews fo Venezuelan vessels have also reported strange objects during crossings of the deep waters of the Gulf of Venezuela.
	www.rense.com /general42/klum.htm (259 words)

	Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		} The name "Venezuela" is believed to have originated with the cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, when in 1499 led a naval exploration of the noroccidental coast (known today as the Gulf of Venezuela (bay)
		Gulf of Venezuela), along with Alonso de Ojeda.
		Venezuela is subdivided into 23 states (estados), one capital district (distrito capital) and the federal dependencys (dependencias federales):
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Venezuela.htm (2054 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Venezuela was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others being Colombia and Ecuador).
		For most of the first half of the 20th century, Venezuela was ruled by generally benevolent military strongmen, who promoted the oil industry and allowed for some social reforms.
		Venezuela continues to be highly dependent on the petroleum sector, accounting for roughly one-third of GDP, around 80% of export earnings, and over half of government operating revenues.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ve.html (1223 words)

	Venezuela Part 2 Gulf of Cariaco
		It was very obvious from the state of the roads and the style of the housing that Monagas is the second richest state in Venezuela, whilst Sucré is the second poorest.
		They were heading there for supplies for the hotel and we had a chance to look around the bustling city centre and enjoy another great lunch before heading back via the scenic mountain route to Medregal.
		The village used to be the hub of all transport to the town of Cariaco and the surrounding area before the road was built but now is a small village of fishermen and potters of course.
	members.aol.com /yachtanju2004/ven2004pt2.htm (2373 words)

	Ford Foundation: Energy and U.S. Foreign Policy - 78
		The search in Venezuela is directed to the southern part of Lake Maracaibo (the bulk of Venezuelan reserves and production are in the east-central part of the lake), the Gulf of Venezuela, and the Gulf of Vela off the Paraguaná Peninsula.
		The Gulf of Venezuela has been extensively surveyed, and resources are thought to be as large as 25 billion barrels, but no reserves have been proved and development is frustrated by a boundary dispute between Colombia and Venezuela.
		Apart from developments in Venezuela, the area most likely to yield significant new supplies in the near future is the upper Amazon Basin of Peru and Ecuador, which is now being explored by a number of companies.
	www.fordfound.org /elibrary/documents/0158/095.cfm (565 words)

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