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Bárbula Tunnel
Bárbula Tunnel (Spanish: ''Túnel de Bárbula'') is a partly-constructed railway tunnel in Venezuela. It is between Las Trincheras and Naguanagua in Carabobo state. The tunnel has a length of 7.8 km (4.8 mi), which makes it the longest in South America. The tunnel is part of a line under construction between the sea port city of Puerto Cabello, Carabobo State, and the crossroads town of La Encrucijada, Aragua State. Tunnels are required to provide a low gradient route through the mountains of the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Bárbula Tunnel takes its name from Bárbula Bárbula is a locality in Naguanagua Municipality, Venezuela. It has the main campus of the University of Carabobo. The facilities include a palmetum, the ''Parque Universitario Palmetum''. Battle of Bárbula At the beginning of the 19th centu ..., a locality near Naguanagua. Geology Granitic rocks are typical of the geology of the area, but clay and alluvium, requiring special ground improvement, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Trincheras
Las Trincheras, also known as Las Trincheras de Aguas Calientes, is a locality near Valencia, Venezuela. It is noted for its hot springs, which feed into the Aguas Calientes River. The name Trincheras (Spanish for "trenches") is said to derive from fortifications constructed in the colonial era. History Visit of Humboldt The springs were visited by Alexander von Humboldt in 1800 during his expedition to the American tropics. They were known to the locals and Humboldt noticed that sick people were taking steam baths there. On his return to Europe, Humboldt made Las Trincheras known to science. He had recorded the temperature of the water as . There was no evidence of vulcanism in the area to explain what was heating the water. The work of François Arago on the geothermal gradient helped Humboldt to develop the idea that the springs obtained their heat from very deep groundwater circulation.Davis, S. ''Humboldt, Arago, and the temperature of groundwater''. Hydrogeology Journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naguanagua Municipality
The Naguanagua () municipality is one of the 14 municipalities (municipios) that makes up the Venezuelan state of Carabobo and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 157,437. The town of Naguanagua is the shire town of the Naguanagua Municipality. It forms part of the greater Valencia, Carabobo, Valencia Metropolitan Area in . It is in the valley of the at the base of Cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carabobo State
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Puerto Cabello
Puerto Cabello () is a city on the north coast of Venezuela. It is located in Carabobo State, about 210 km west of Caracas. As of 2011, the city had a population of around 182,400. The city is home to the largest and busiest port in the country and is thus a vital cog in the country's vast oil industry. The word 'cabello' translates to 'hair'. The Spaniards took to saying that the sea was so calm there that a ship could be secured to the dock by tying it with a single hair. Climate Puerto Cabello has a borderline tropical savanna climate (Köppen ''Aw''), almost dry enough to be a hot semi-arid climate (''BSh'') as prevails further west on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. History The foundation date of Puerto Cabello is not known although its name was documented for the first time on the map of the province of Caracas prepared in 1578 by Juan de Pimentel. Puerto Cabello's location made it an easy prey to buccaneers and was a popular trading post for Dutch smugglers dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Encrucijada (Venezuela)
La Encrucijada, or La Encrucijada de Turmero, is a strategic road junction near Turmero Turmero is a city in the state of Aragua in northern Venezuela. It is the capital of Santiago Mariño Municipality. The city was officially established on 27 November 1620 with the founding of a church, ''Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Candelaria'', ..., Venezuela. It is also planned to be a rail junction. Road At this point, about 72 km south-west of Caracas, the ''Autopista Regional del Centro'' (Central Regional Highway) intersects with other major highways. Rail Turmero had a station on the Great Venezuela Railway between Caracas and Valencia. This line opened in the 1890s and closed in the 1960s. With the revival of rail in Venezuela, La Encrucijada is planned to be the site of an important rail junction, linking a route to the Caribbean port of Puerto Cabello (which roughly follows the routes of defunct 19th century railway lines) with new routes into the interior of Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aragua
Aragua State ( es, Estado Aragua, ) is one of the 23 States of Venezuela, states of Venezuela. It is located in the north-central region of Venezuela. It has plains and jungle (terrain), jungles and Caribbean beaches. The most popular are Cata and Choroni. It has Venezuela's first national park which is called Henri Pittier National Park, Henri Pittier. The capital is Maracay, other important cities include Turmero and El Limón, Venezuela, El Limón. Aragua State covers a total surface area of and, based on the 2011 census information, the estimated population of Aragua State in 2012 is 1,630,308 inhabitants. Etymology The name of the state comes from an indigenous word of Cumanagoto language, Cumanagoto (Caribbean) origin, which is used to refer to the Chaguaramo, a type of palm from the region [quotation required] However, according to Carlos Blanco Galeno, a chronicler from Turmero, it derives from the Cariban languages, Cariban aregua, and this de are ('site') and gua whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuelan Coastal Range
The Venezuelan Coastal Range ( es, Cordillera de la Costa or ), also known as Venezuelan Caribbean Mountain System ( es, Sistema Montañoso Caribe) is a mountain range system and one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela, that runs along the central and eastern portions of Venezuela's northern coast. The range is a northeastern extension of the Andes, and is also known as the Maritime Andes. It covers around 48,866 km2, being the 4th largest natural region in Venezuela. Geography The Coastal Range actually consists of two parallel ranges, which run east and west along the coast of the Caribbean Sea. The Cojedes River separates the western end of Coastal Range from the Cordillera de Mérida to the southeast. The range is divided into eastern and western sections by the wide bay between Cape Codera and Cumaná. Serranía del Litoral—Serranía del Interior In eastern section of the range, the parallel ranges are known as the Serranía del Litoral, which runs along the Caribbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bárbula
Bárbula is a locality in Naguanagua Municipality, Venezuela. It has the main campus of the University of Carabobo. The facilities include a palmetum, the ''Parque Universitario Palmetum''. Battle of Bárbula At the beginning of the 19th century Bárbula was a farm or hacienda, which was visited by Alexander von Humboldt. In 1813 the locality was the site of a battle, the , in which Colombian and Venezuelan independentists defeated Royalist troops. The background was that the United Provinces of New Granada (Colombia) granted Simon Bolivar permission to lead a force to free Venezuela. The battle is mentioned in the National Anthem of Colombia The "National Anthem of the Republic of Colombia" ( es, Himno Nacional de la República de Colombia, ) is the official name of the national anthem of Colombia. It was originally written as a poem in 1850 by future President Rafael Núñez as an ... in an allusion to the heroic death of Atanasio Girardot. :Del Orinoco el cauce :se c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crisis In Venezuela
An ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis began in Venezuela during the presidency of Hugo Chávez and has worsened during the presidency of his successor Nicolás Maduro. It has been marked by hyperinflation, escalating starvation, disease, crime and mortality rates, resulting in Venezuelan refugee crisis, massive emigration from the country. The situation is believed to be by far the worst economic crisis in Venezuela's history, and is also the worst facing a country in peacetime since the mid-20th century. The crisis is often considered to be more severe than that of the Great Depression in the United States, United States during the Great Depression, the 1985–1994 Brazilian economic crisis, or the 2008–2009 hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Other writers have also compared aspects of the crisis, such as unemployment and GDP contraction, to that of Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina after the 1992–1995 Bosnian War, and those in 1998 Russian financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Tunnels In South America
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
