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LA GUAIRA, or LA GUAYRA (sometimes LAGUAIRA, andc.), a town and port of Venezuela, in the Federal district, 23 M. by rail and 62 m.
LA GRANJA, or SAN ILDEFONSO, a summer palace of the kings of Spain; on the south-eastern border of the province of Segovia, and on the western slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 7 M. by road S.E. of the city of Segovia.
La Guaira was founded in 1588, was sacked by filibusters under Amias Preston in 1595, and by the French under Grammont in 1680, was destroyed by the great earthquake of the 26th of March 1812, and suffered severely in the war for independence.
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 Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America - Chapter 11.
Although the sea is extremely rough from Cape Codera to La Guayra, and although the boats have an enormous triangular sail, somewhat dangerous in those gusts which issue from the mountain-passes, no instance has occurred during thirty years, of one of these boats being lost in the passage from Cumana to the coast of Caracas.
The climate of La Guayra is justly considered to be hotter than that of Cumana, Porto Cabello, and Coro, because the sea-breeze is less felt, and the air is heated by the radiant caloric which the perpendicular rocks emit from the time the sun sets.
La Guayra appeared to me in general to be tolerably clean, with the exception of the quarter of the slaughter-houses.
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 Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America - Chapter 15.
La Victoria is traversed by the little river Calanchas, running, not into the Tuy, but into the Rio Aragua: it thence results that this fine country, producing at once sugar and corn, belongs to the basin of the lake of Valencia, to a system of interior rivers not communicating with the sea.
Twelve years afterwards, those valleys of Aragua, those peaceful plains of La Victoria and Turmero, the defile of Cabrera, and the fertile banks of the lake of Valencia, became the scenes of obstinate and sanguinary conflicts between the natives and the troops of the mother-country.
La Cabrera now forms a peninsula: not sixty years ago it was a rocky island in the lake, the waters of which gradually diminish.
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - CORO:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As they claimed Dutch citizenship, the consul-general for the Netherlands, Van Lansberge, informed the home government, and three ships of war were sent to La Guayra, the principal seaport of Venezuela, and the redress demanded was at once granted.
The Venezuelan government agreed to salute the Dutch flag; to restore to the Jews their property; and to pay an indemnity of 200,000 pesos ($160,000), the last clause being carried into effect in 1859, after lengthy diplomatic negotiations with the ambassador of the Netherlands, Jhr.
In July following, the same vessel was sent to La Vela de Coro for the remainder, and only a few Jewish residents remained behind to protect the property of the exiles.
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While at Concepcion de la Vega he was informed that several Indians had burned an altar erected by friars in the interior, and had buried the sacred images.
In La Vega and Santiago the Haitian troops made prisoners of numerous families, aggregating 900 persons among men, women and children in La Vega and probably more in Santiago, and forced them to accompany the army to northern Haiti, where they were kept in captivity, working practically as slaves for their captors, for four years.
Many of his prisoners mysteriously disappeared, and popular rumor points out one of the lower platforms of the fort "La Fuerza," where an aguacate tree formerly grew, as the place where prisoners were shot at night, their bodies being thrown to the sharks at the base of the cliff.
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 Don Alvaro Bazan-legajos
Salida de la Guayra para Puerto Rico y regreso del bergantín[6] Maortúa, con el Capitán General de Venezuela, Moxó, contrariando órdenes del Comandante de la Bailén (5 septiembre).
Llegada a la Habana de las goletas Constancia y Amistad y balandra[7] Badger, y que se dará ésta al Apostadero de Veracruz (abril 1816).
Regreso de la división que fue a dar convoy, al norte de Puerto Rico, a los mercantes que regresaban a España (10 agosto).
www.hijadelmaryelsol.com /archivo_general_don_alvaro_bazan.htm   (2782 words)

  
 Venezuela: The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps (Library of Congress)
This large scale map depicts the Lake of Valencia Basin and the coast from La Guaira to Puerto Cabello and is primarily an economic and communications map.
This map of La Guaira and vicinity shows coastline, coastal features, soundings, navigational hazards, settlements, and pictorial representation of relief; map is oriented with south at top.
This map of La Guaira and vicinity includes coastline, coastal features, soundings, navigational hazards, settlements, fortifications, and pictorial representation of relief; map also includes a keyed legend.
www.loc.gov /rr/geogmap/luso/venezuela.html   (2125 words)

  
 panamainfo.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
To get there, you have to pass Porto Bello, then before reaching La Guayra, you turn right at the fork of the road, where there is a cantina.
Boca La Caja - This spot is located in front of the "Corredor Norte", in front of the area of "Boca La Caja" which is a somewhat dangerous area of the city with many thugs.
Playa Las Lajas is a beach bottom break with rights and lefts that is located right before the town of David, right off of the main highway, about 15 minutes down the road.
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 Guide to the Andean Collection : Finding Aid
An extensive and detailed report on the administration of the Duke of La Palata, who was viceroy of Peru in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Plan to reinforce Spanish colonization in the area of Río de La Plata, consisting of the construction of a road from Jujuy to Asunción, promotion of navigation along the Río Grande or Bermejo, and recuperation of the territories occupied by Portuguese.
The aim of this dialogue, as the author states in the introduction, is to defend the military performance of Captain José del Valle, general inspector of the viceregal army, during the rebellion of Tupac Amaru.
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 Reese Catalogue 242 - Section III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Garcilaso de la Vega's contemporary record of the early Spanish period in Peru is most valuable, as it is based on eyewitness testimony and personal observation.
Garcilaso de la Vega, "El Inca," a distinguished 16th-century mestizo Peruvian and a descendant of the Spanish poet of the same name, was born in Peru and spent his formative years there, living out his later life in Spain.
Garcilaso de la Vega is chiefly known for this history of the Incas, which was supposedly based on mestizo Jesuit Blas Valera's manuscripts, which Garcilaso de la Vega saved when Cadiz was sacked by the British.
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 Chapter What Befell at La Guayra of Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Of the latter he made a matter of course; and the former was easy enough, for the breeze blowing dead off the land, was a “soldier’s wind, there and back again,” for either ship; but Amyas and Frank were both unwilling.
His duty to the queen bade him follow the Spanish vessel: his duty to his vow, to go on to La Guayra.
However, the counsel of Frank prevailed, and on to La Guayra he went.
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 History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - La Société Française des ...
The French Minister of Posts and Telegraphs agreed to support the company, La Participation des Câbles des Antilles in the laying of cables to connect French territories in the West Indies.
A contract was awarded to the W. Henley Telegraph Works Company in 1887 for half the core and all of the armouring while La Société Générale des Téléphones supplied the other half of the core.
In 1888 the newly formed company La Société Française de Télégraphes Sous-Marin took over La Participation and continued with the programme of laying new cables and connecting the network to Brazil.
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 Karl Marx in the New American Encyclopedia 1858   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On the surrender of Caracas to Gonzales, July 17, 1814, Bolivar evacuated La Guayra, ordered the vessels lying in the harbor of that town to sail for Cuntana, and retreated with the remainder of his troops upon Barcelona.
On Bolivar’s formal promise to convoke a national congress at Venezuela, as soon as he should be master of the country, Arismendi summoned a junta in the cathedral of La Villa del Norte, and publicly proclaimed him the commander-in-chief of the republics of Venezuela and New Granada.
By the manoeuvres of Paez, Morillo and La Torre were routed at Achaguas, and would have been destroyed if Bolivar had effected a junction between his own troops and those of Paez and Marino.
www.marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1858/01/bolivar.htm   (4971 words)

  
 Sailing ships of the 18th Cent. Royal Navy Letters 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
La Guayra and Puerto Cabbello (La Guyra and Porto Cavallo)
I am just arriv'd here from La Guyra, a Place we attack'd under Commodore Knowles, Feb. 9 last, at 12 at Noon, and continued till almost 8 at Night with the Ships, a List of which I have here inclosed, and all the Damages they have received.
The Town was large and handsome, their Fort strong and had but one place to land at, which we could not attempt to do; we saw six sail of ships go out in the Morning, we made the Attack, and found three there.
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 Lots 89-143
1847 (6 Nov.) E from Caracas via La Guayra, St Thomas and Southampton to London carried by the Larne and Trent with m/s "P2".
Thomas and Southampton to London carried by Larne and Medway with m/s "2/-" and on reverse "LA GUAYRA" c.d.s.
The EL was carried on the La Plata and Thames and has a h.s.
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 Revista/Review Interamericana:Volumen 29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This condition was not peculiar to Venezuela, since nearly every other Spanish American republic suffered a similar fate for prolonged periods in the course of the nineteenth century, leading to the negative stereotyping of the Latin American peoples as uncivilized and unprogressive by European, North American, and even Latin American intellectuals, diplomats, publicists and propagandists.
Castro also knew that with the local insurgents not yet fully suppressed, and with the nearly total dependence of his government on the customs revenues of the two main ports of La Guayra and Puerto Cabello, he had to lean on the Americans for intercession with the blockading powers and for a negotiated settlement.
On April 28, Castro retaliated against Trinidad by passing a decree which quarantined La Guayra as a port of entry, citing the very bubonic plague that the Trinidad government had cited for its action.
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 Biblioteca Digital del INEAM - INTERAMER
They were all maritime ports in direct contact with the outside world; their intense economic activity took place along with their political and administrative functions as capitals and, therefore, as centers of economic decision-making.
This same structure was evident even in cities like Caracas and Lima, which were in the interior, but had their neighboring ports of La Guayra and El Callao.
Founded in 1882 as the capital of the Province of Buenos Aires, La Plata experienced considerable development both in trade and as a port thanks to the efforts of a predominantly immigrant urban population.
www.educoas.org /Portal/bdigital/contenido/interamer/interamer_59/chap6/transformation.aspx   (3307 words)

  
 L-LA - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This page gives an overview of all articles in the 1911 Brittanica which are alphabetized under L to La.
Bernard Germain Etienne de la Ville, comte de Lacepede
This page was last modified 16:55, 5 May 2006.
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 Marie Berthe Gardes: The mother of Carlos Gardel
They settled in Venezuela where, either in La Guayra or in Caracas, misery blunted their self-restrained spirits and, after a few years, they came back to their French fatherland.
Fue filmado un año después de la muerte de Gardel y contiene un testimonio de Berthe Gardes, su madre.
Palabras de la madre de Carlos Gardel: Revista Antena, 18 de Junio de 1946.
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 VINTAGE MAPS! - VINTAGECHANNEL
Du territoire d'Orléans comprenant aussi la Floride Occidentale et une portion du territoire du Mississipi.
Plano de la gran Bahía de Todos Santos situada en la costa del Brasil en la latitud de 12 gs.
La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline : teatro de los trabajos, Apostolicos de la Compa.
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 Caribbean Triathlon Portobelo 2004 - International
Hotel Caesar Park, Martes 9 de marzo a las 11:00 AM (Están invitados todos los atletas y participantes).
Las inscripciones recibidas del 9 al 13 de marzo pagan un recargo de $ 5.00 en Individual
Las inscripciones el sábado 13 de marzo solo serán recibidas en Portobelo y la Guayra por los organizadores de la UTP.
www.triathlon.org.pa /eventos2004/volantePortobelo2004.htm   (381 words)

  
 Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howe next served in the West Indies aboard Burford and was present when she was severely damaged in the unsuccessful attack on La Guayra on February 18, 1742.
He was made acting-lieutenant in the West Indies in the same year, and the rank was confirmed in 1744.
Chevalier, Histoire de la marine francaise, (Paris, 1900)
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 Alcoholics Anonymous: A Business Man's Recovery
I was a passenger on that boat bound for the oil fields of Maracaibo as an employee of the X Oil Company, under a two year contract at a good salary and maintenance.
We visited every "cantina" along the straggling main street of La Guayra, and feeling high, wide and handsome, Red and I decided to return to the ship.
When we rolled down to the dock we found that our ship had been berthed off from the wharf about thirty feet and that it was necessary to take a tender out to her.
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 Disaster Message Service
Las casas, la basura y los palos hicieron falsos
la Guaira, Galipán y Macuto, simplemente desaparecieron, la carretera de la
As you have heard, Venezuela is under an emergency situation due to severe floodings and mudslides, which have affected around 300.000 people.
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 panamainfo.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Swimming: 1800m from the village of La Guaira to the resort island of Isla Grande and back.
Biking: 36 kilometers on a rugged road from La Guaira to Portbelo.
Running: A 10 kilometer run around the historic town of Portobelo ending at the original pre-colonial counting house.
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 Thomas Ustick Walter- Historic Architecture for a Modern World
He sued, and his case was eventually represented by Secretary of State, Daniel Webster.
Plano de la Casa Para la Capitania de Puerto, 1844
Harper’s Ferry, VA The timing of this design was interesting in that it was produced just nine months before John Brown’s infamous raid on the site.
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 Antique-Photography.com Vintage and Fine Art Photography Auction
Here is a view by H.C. White, titled:9001-La Guayra and the Mountains from the Harbor, Venezuela.
If you are the owner of this item, you can relist this item by clicking the link below.
If you have questions - contact the seller: stereoviews.com before you bid.
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 Porto Rico. Amer. Sep. 69. / Vandermaelen, Philippe, 1795-1869; Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 / 1827
(with profile) Chemin de la Guayra a Caracas par la Cumbre.
Pub Title: Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l'echelle de 1/1641836 ou d'une ligne par 1900 toises, dresse par Ph.
Vandermaelen, Membre de la Societe de Geographie de Paris, d'apres les meilleures cartes, observations astronomiques et voyages dans les divers Pays de la Terre; Lithographie par H. Ode, Membre de la Societe de Geographie de Paris.
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 Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho! : Chapter XIX. What Befell at La Guayra
"All I want of you is, first, to tell me what ships are in La Guayra, and next, to go thither on board of me, and show me which is the governor's house, and which the custom-house."
But in repayment for your kindness, I would warn you, illustrious senor, not to go on to La Guayra.
Some short five years more, and the great Armada will have come and gone; and then that avenging storm, of which they, like Oxenham, Hawkins, and Drake, are but the avant-couriers, will burst upon every Spanish port from Corunna to Cadiz, from the Canaries to Havana, and La Guayra and St.
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