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Bárbula is a locality in
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 ...
, Venezuela. It has the main campus of the
University of Carabobo
The University of Carabobo (Spanish: ''Universidad de Carabobo'') is an autonomous, public university of Venezuela located in Valencia, Venezuela. It offers graduate and postgraduate studies in different areas. The university offers a lot of gre ...
. The facilities include a
palmetum
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History
Palmeta as p ...
, 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
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...
.
In 1813 the locality was the site of a battle, the , in which Colombian and Venezuelan independentists defeated
Royalist
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troops. The background was that the
United Provinces of New Granada
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(Colombia) granted
Simon Bolivar
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permission to lead a force to free Venezuela.
The battle is mentioned in the
National Anthem of Colombia
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in an allusion to the heroic death of
Atanasio Girardot.
:Del
Orinoco el cauce
:se colma de despojos;
:de sangre y llanto un río
:se mira allí correr.
:En Bárbula no saben
:las almas ni los ojos,
:si admiración o espanto
:sentir o padecer.
Bárbula Tunnel
Bárbula Tunnel is part of a railway under construction between
Puerto Cabello and
La Encrucijada (
Estado Aragua). The project to build the line of approx. 108 km is managed by
Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado.
The tunnel has a length of 7.8 km (4.8 mi), which makes it the longest in South America.
References
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Populated places in Carabobo