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Southern General Cemetery
The Southern General Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Caracas. It was founded in 1876, by order of President Antonio Guzmán Blanco. It is located at the end of ''El Cementerio'' and ''El Degredo'' streets, in the parish of :es:Iglesia de Santa Rosalía (Caracas), Santa Rosalia, west of :es:Municipio Libertador de Caracas, Libertador Municipality. The administration of the cemetery is the responsibility of the Municipal Cemeteries management department, which is attached to ''Fundacaracas,'' a foundation of the Libertador Municipality's government. It has the support of ''Fundapatrimonio,'' the municipal police in Caracas and the Institute of Cultural Heritage. Among the well-known Venezuelan persons buried there are: Armando Reverón, Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl, Miguel Otero Silva, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, :es:Andrés Mata (poeta), Andrés Mata, Martín Tovar y Tovar, Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde, Rómulo Gallegos, :es:Argimiro Gabaldón, Argimiro Gabaldón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipality Libertador (Caracas)
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special district (United States), special-purpose district. The term is derived from French language, French and Latin language, Latin . The English language, English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction (area), jurisd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
