Antímano is a district of
Caracas,
Venezuela
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. It is part of
Libertador municipality. According to a 2007 estimate of the
National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, it had a population of 150,971 people in 2007.
The name Antímano derives from a combination of the words
Atamanona and
Amatima, the names of two indigenous groups which lived in the area before the Spanish Conquest. Antímano was established in 1621 as an agricultural village, and remained rural until the first part of the twentieth century. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the Venezuelan President
Antonio Guzmán Blanco
Antonio José Ramón de La Trinidad y María Guzmán Blanco (28 February 1829 – 28 July 1899) was a Venezuelan military leader, statesman, diplomat and politician. He was the president of Venezuela for three separate terms, from 1870 until ...
built a country house in Antímano, calling it "La Pequeña Versalles" (Little
Versailles
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). From the mid-1940s Antímano began to develop as an industrial zone, with the first factories producing
Polar beer and
Pepsi
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History
Pepsi wa ...
. The steel company
Sidetur was founded here in 1948.
The house of Guzman Blanco fell into disuse for over 30 years (despite being declared a National Monument) and was eventually restored in 2004, the building being turned into a Sociocultural Complex, and its grounds converted into a sports facility with baseball, football and basketball fields.
[''Radio Nacional de Venezuela'', 30 July 2004, 11.18pm]
Inauguran centro sociocultural y deportivo Casa de Campo Guzmán Blanco
Since it is a large neighborhood, it is possible to get there on a number of
Caracas Metro
The Caracas Metro ( es, Metro de Caracas) is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela. It was constructed and is operated by Compañía Anónima Metro de Caracas, a government-owned company that was founded in 1977 by José Gon ...
stations on Line 2 (the green one) including
Antímano,
Carapita, and
Mamera.
References
Parishes of Capital District (Venezuela)
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