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  Venezuela Productiva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yaracuy State is located in the West-Central part of the country.
Yaracuy State has a significant potential of mining resources, especially non metallic, like sands, gravels, red clays, talc, marble, gypsum, peat and moonstone, as well as metallic resources like lead, silver, gold and titanium.
This important element for the development of agriculture and industry, is abundant in Yaracuy, thanks to the great number of rivers and high levels of rainfall.
www.venezuelaproductiva.gov.ve /ingles/mecanismos_yaracuy.html   (1642 words)

  
 Think Venezuela - The Tourism Directory of Venezuela - The Northwest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Four states comprise this large area of the country: Zulia, Falcon, Yaracuy and Lara.Zulia, Venezuela's westernmost state, is known to be among the hottest places in Latin America and produces 70% of the country’s oil.
Situated in both Lara and Yaracuy states, Tirgua National Park encompasses part of the western mountain range known as the Cordillera de la Costa; actually a small branch of the Andes.
Yaracuy is a small, little-known state sitting between the Andean foothills and the coast.
www.think-venezuela.net /northwest.htm   (2656 words)

  
 Yaracuy State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Estado Yaracuy is one of the 23 states (estados) of Venezuela.
Yaracuy State covers a total surface area of 7,100 sq.km.
This page was last modified 13:39, 8 November 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yaracuy_State   (104 words)

  
 Recall Election in Venezuela: the celebration in Yaracuy | www.vcrisis.com | printer friendly version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Today it was the turn of the provinces to have their time under the sun, were it to show up.
Yaracuy under Governor Lapi (Convergencia), one of the main characters of the opposition, in particular since he participated in the negotiation table of the first half of 2003, demonstrated once again his appeal in the state.
But Lapi has kept it more than alive in Yaracuy to the great displeasure of Chavez.
www.vcrisis.com /print.php?content=letters/200406070810   (212 words)

  
 Daily News - eluniversal.com
The electoral triumph of Chávez-supported candidates is categorical in 18 states, but "reasonable doubts" remain in the cases of Carabobo State, Yaracuy State, and the Sucre Municipality of Miranda State.
Thirty-nine percent of ballots cast in Yaracuy State are yet to be totaled.
Besides, he claimed he is to travel to Carabobo State -and CNE director Tibisay Lucena is to visit Yaracuy State- to support the work of regional electoral boards vis-à-vis the pressure some political actors and groups have been exercising.
www.eluniversal.com /2004/11/02/en_pol_art_02A504081.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Yaracuy State (Venezuela)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Three unequal oblique bands: A red abnd simbolizing the indomitable spirit of our natives who first populated this land and who struggled with great will against the Spanish invaders; and of that spirit of the men who fought for autonomy which made it posible for there to be a Yaracuy Province, back in 1855.
In this circle stands out the yellow colour of the sun, which represents the riches of the land and the resources deriving from it; the brown coloured mountains, with the green fields, sinthetyse the agricultural and vegetal richness that we have inherited since the beggining of time.
It will be instated as the state flag on March 19th, Yaracuy's Day, and during such a day it will remain flying in the Governor's palace and other public buildings."
flagspot.net /flags/ve-u.html   (212 words)

  
 The Militant - October 27, 2003 -- After hard-fought battles, 60,000 peasants get land titles in Venezuela
She was referring to the Law on Land and Agricultural Development, passed by the Venezuelan government in November 2001.
Even as late as July 12 of last year, Eduardo Lapi, the governor of Yaracuy, who is with the pro-imperialist opposition that is trying to undermine the Chávez government, ordered police to fire on dozens of peasants who had tried to move onto lands turned over to them by INTi.
Despite the harsh repression by the capitalist regime, the Yaracuy peasants were not deterred.
www.themilitant.com /2003/6737/673702.html   (2099 words)

  
 GYTS - 2001 Factsheet - Venezuela - Yaracuy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Venezuela – Yaracuy State GYTS includes data on prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum.
The Venezuela – Yaracuy State GYTS was a school-based survey of students in grades 6-9, conducted in 2001.
The school response rate was 100%, the student response rate was 87.5%, and the overall response rate was 87.5%.
www.cdc.gov /tobacco/Global/GYTS/factsheets/2001/VenezuelaYaracuyState_factsheet.htm   (659 words)

  
 Gubernatorial Vote in Contention in Venezuela’s States of Carabobo and Yaracuy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Caracas, November 2, 2004—Venezuelans went to the polls Sunday, October 31 to vote for governors and mayors during the regional elections.
Despite relatively high absention, the CNE’s preliminary results show Chavista victories that are unlikely to be reversed in 18 of the 20 states, and that Yaracuy and Carabobo are still too close to call, although Chavistas lead in both.
Although the incumbent opposition leader in Carabobo, Henrique Salas Feo, was expected to be reelected, preliminary results have calculated that he has received only 275,566 votes (48.7%) to the 285,363 (50.4%) earned by the pro-Chávez candidate Luis Acosta Carles.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1406   (844 words)

  
 San Felipe --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It lies on the flanks of the eastern portion of the Segovia Highlands, at an elevation of 1,800 feet (550 m) above sea level.
San Felipe is a commercial and manufacturing centre in the fertile Yaracuy River valley.
Founded in 1740 as San Felipe el Real, it is the centre of an agricultural (alfalfa, grapes, fruits, vegetables, and cereals) and mining (copper and gold) area.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9065290?tocId=9065290   (888 words)

  
 Andrade, Gabriel Ernesto: A Girardian reading of the myth of Maria Lionza
Many migrants from Yaracuy brought the cult to the cities, but, since the cult was largely particularistic of each spiritualist group, it did not achieve a sufficient organisation level to be launched.
Until the early XX Century, there was a slight knowledge in Venezuelan urban society that in the remote mountains of Yaracuy there was a myth of a goddess called Maria Lionza.
This was to be considered an alert, because her eyes would be a signal of bad times to come, and if the green eyed girl ever saw herself in the reflection of the nearby lake, a monstrous giant snake would come out of her and would bring death and destruction.
www.anthrobase.com /Txt/A/Andrade_G_E_01.htm   (14201 words)

  
 Costa Rica's Daily News Magazine!
There will also be a statue of Mother Theresa of Calcutta, who founded her first mission outside of India in the Yaracuy town of Cocorote.
The aim of this highway "museum" is to link "religious faith and culture to the landscape, so that local residents and visitors can travel pleasant roads while also highlighting the talent of Yaracuy's sculptors," Abelardo Oropeza, head of the project, told IPS.
In Yaracuy, whose Governor Eduardo Lapi is a practicing Catholic, the gallery of statues of virgins and saints is interwoven with private tourism initiatives, such as a new botanical garden and the restoration of a Catholic mission that dates to the 18th century.
insidecostarica.com /specialreports/venezuela_virgins.htm   (742 words)

  
 VHeadline.com - Celebran 150 años de la creación de Yaracuy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
La oportunidad fue propicia para declarar la obra de Primera patrimonio cultural del estado Yaracuy, según decreto número 156 emitido por el gobierno yaracuyano.
Luisa Estella Morales Lamuño pronunció un breve, pero significativo discurso, relacionado con los inicios del estado Yaracuy.
La magistrada hizo una retrospectiva histórica y cronológica, en la que detalló los antecedentes que llevaron a declarar al estado Yaracuy provincia independiente el 19 de marzo de 1855.
www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=27833   (605 words)

  
 Mussels of Venezuela - Anodontites aroanus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Caño Minapam, a tributary of Rio Aroa near Palma Sola, Yaracuy, Venezuela.
Type Locality: Caño Minapam, a tributary of Rio Aroa near Palma Sola, Yaracuy, Venezuela.
Caño Minapam, Palma Sola, [Yaracuy], Venezuela, [4- 10 March].
www.inhs.uiuc.edu /cbd/collections/mollusk_links/SA/A_aroanus.html   (359 words)

  
 Winds of change in Yaracuy | www.vcrisis.com
In spite of claims of bankruptcy, mismanagement, deficient services (standard in Venezuela when we change administration but nobody ever goes to jail) funds have been found to put yesterday this glorious and expensive poster.
Thus when you visit the State Capitol you will know without the shade of a doubt that Yaracuy has now a "bolivarian" government and that the one in charge is Chavez via HIS governor.
Note that the colors used are the ones of PODEMOS; technically the governors party instead of the flaming red of Chavez party.
www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200412101021   (515 words)

  
 Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Cordillera La Costa montane forests (NT0117)
Separated physically from the Andes by the Yaracuy depression, and from the forests of the Guyanan floristic province by the extensive plains of the Andes (llanos), these mountains are isolated from one another by much drier surroundings lowlands.
The Cordillera de la Costa, or Costa mountain range, is separated from the Andes by the Yaracuy depression, and from the southern forests of the Guyanan floristic province by the extensive Llanos.
The western section of the Cordillera lies in the state of Yaracuy, where the depression of the Yaracuy River forms a natural southwestward separation.
worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/nt/nt0117_full.html   (2765 words)

  
 AEGiS-IFRC: Community involvement key in Venezuela programmes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"At Brisas de Yaracuy, a nearby community, for example, the women have become aware and are registering their children, since most children in these communities are not legally registered."
In total, some 1,500 people in seven communities in the provinces of Yaracuy and Caracas benefit from the CRV Community Education project.
Currently it is the only programme in Venezuela that combines disaster preparedness and community health.
www.aegis.com /news/ifrc/2003/IF030802.html   (896 words)

  
 Chavez Supporters Win Two-Thirds of all 335 Venezuelan Municipalities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Results for the remaining two states have also been released, but the CNE has repeatedly stressed that the races are still too close to call.
In Carabobo and Yaracuy (see map) pro-Chávez candidates are holding on to slim leads as technicians continue the drawn-out counting process (fig.3).
The races for governor in Yaracuy and Carabobo are too close to call at present.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /news.php?newsno=1404   (710 words)

  
 VHeadline.com - National Crime Squad (CICPC) searches for kidnapped victim in Yaracuy State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Meanwhile, the head of the CICPC commission in San Felipe, Hector Lessman, says no contact has yet been made with the kidnappers, although it was confirmed that Cabello Torrellas was taken hostage.
Members of the CICPC commission in Caracas have been assisting the regional delegation sent to San Felipe ever since the kidnapping was confirmed.
Llegó a San Felipe, estado Yaracuy, una comisión de la División Antisecuestro del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (CICPC) para encargarse de las investigaciones relacionadas con el caso del comerciante Alberto Cabello Torrellas, de 33 años, quien se encuentra desparecido desde el pasado miércoles.
www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=24027   (759 words)

  
 Circuito Venezolano de Radiodiffusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Some of you may ask why the last 4 years every SW outlet of the CVR network, "circuito sin fronteras", disappeared.
R Juventud even had to switch off a shortly be for installed FM stereo xmtr which was only low power, for financial reasons.
Sr Carlos Rodríguez Maza, Dir Administrativo de Radio Yaracuy in San Pelípe, and a vy nice chap by the way, told me he rcvd the order to switch off the SW from Mrs Villanueva, because they had found out electricity for 10 kW SW outlet costs as much as salaries for 12 stn workers.
donmoore.tripod.com /south/venez/cvr.htm   (702 words)

  
 Cojedes --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
inland state, northwestern Venezuela, surrounded by the states of Yaracuy and Carabobo on the north, Guárico on the east, Barinas on the south, and Portuguesa on the west.
It lies within a tropical zone and has an area of 2,741 square miles (7,100 square km).
The state embraces the fertile and economically important valley of the Yaracuy River, which separates the Segovia Highlands on the west and northwest from...
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9024701   (388 words)

  
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FEDENAGA is aware of another outbreak of type O FMD virus in the parish of Tulio Febres Cordero, state of Merida.
Heredia insisted that this [sero]type of the disease [virus] was characteristic of the state of Yaracuy until about 5 years ago, when it was 'controlled' and that therefore, it is presumed that it was carried to the Andes region by cattle purchased in infected areas.
The states of Barinas, Merida, and Yaracuy are situated in northwestern Venezuela.
www.promedmail.org /pls/askus/f?p=2400:1202:431311::NO::F2400_P1202_CHECK_DISPLAY,F2400_P1202_PUB_MAIL_ID:X,23182   (555 words)

  
 Red Cross Red Crescent - News
The Venezuelan government has declared a state of emergency in nine provinces: Aragua, Carabobo, Capital District, Falcón, Miranda, Táchira, Vargas, Yaracuy and Zulia.
The funds will help the CRV to assist 1,000 families located in temporary shelters in the following states: Carabobo, Distrito Federal, Miranda, Vargas and Yaracuy with food and non-food relief aid.
There are concerns about a possible increase in illnesses related to poor water and sanitation conditions, so work in primary health care will also be required.
www.ifrc.org /docs/news/05/05021401   (469 words)

  
 VHeadline.com - Yaracuy prepara celebración de su 150 aniversario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Según anunció el coordinador de la comisión organizadora de las festividades del 150 Aniversario del estado Yaracuy, Edgar Piña, la programación para la fecha conmemorativa del próximo 19 de marzo, superará las anteriores, con la cual se marca un precedente que nunca se olvidará.
Piña refirió que este año tenemos sobradas razones para celebrar y enaltecer tan significativa fecha.
Estamos en el primer año del gobierno bolivariano de Yaracuy, el primero de una larga temporada que marcará el brillante futuro de nuestra región.
www.vheadline.com /readnews.asp?id=26118   (593 words)

  
 Luke's South American Diary - January 1996
Turning up the mountain road towards Barquisimeto, I detoured through a lovely but little-known area of mountains and orange groves, through the pleasant rural villages of Bejuma, Montalban, Aguirre and Canaoba, eventually emerging onto the main Puerto Cabello - San Felipe road, which runs parallel with Venezuela's one and only railway line.
San Felipe itself, capital of the state of Yaracuy, is an unexciting, largely modern city, but it nestles beneath the pretty Sierra de Aroa mountains, most of which are within Yurubí National Park.
At one of the alcabala points, a Guardia Nacional officer (spotting an air-conditioned car) commandeered me to take him to Aroa, to which I had planned on detouring anyway.
www.lukemastin.com /diary/jan96.html   (3925 words)

  
 Quibor Yours ......
San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy State was founded in 1729 and rebuilt anew after the earthquake that shook Venezuela in 1812 leaving the city totally devastated.
Since its foundation the town has been one of the relevant economic centres, due to its location in the middle of an agricultural region which is among the richest in the country.
You will understand why we like so much our country and why we want to share it with you.
www.venezuelatuya.com /occidente/sanfelipeeng.htm   (246 words)

  
 CPD: South America, Site SA1, Coastal Cordillera, Venuezela
The easternmost extension lies in the Paria Peninsula opposite the island of Trinidad (and the system extends into Trinidad); the western end is in the State of Yaracuy where the depression of Yaracuy forms a natural separation from the south-westerly adjacent Andes mountains (and the Sierra de Aroa can also be considered coastal).
The Coastal Cordillera is articulated into two transversal sections, a larger western and a smaller eastern one.
The western section in turn consists of two parallel east-west mountain chains: a northern Serranía del Litoral from the River Yaracuy, and a southerly adjacent and lower Serranía del Interior extending to the depression of Unare (c.
www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa1.htm   (2463 words)

  
 Linux Counter: Area Rank Report for VE:Yaracuy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This view gives you the ranking of density for places within Yaracuy as of Fri Nov 18 07:34:58 2005 UTC
You can click on each entry to get a list of places within that place.
The table is sorted by number of users divided by population
counter.li.org /reports/arearank.php?area=VE:Yaracuy   (67 words)

  
 Interview with Peter Rosset: Agrarian Reform, Land Reform, Food Sovereignty / Global Eyes / In Motion Magazine
Peter Rosset listening to speakers during a workshop on land reform in San Felipe, Yaracuy, Venezuela.
A farmer makes a point about the new land reform laws.
A church on the central square in the nearby town of Urachiche (in Yaracuy).
www.inmotionmagazine.com /global/p_rosset_int.html   (3481 words)

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