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Baruta, Miranda
Baruta (pop. 317,288) is a municipality within the Metropolitan District of Caracas in Venezuela. Geography Baruta is located geographically in the South-East section of the city. Its western limit is the ''Los Chaguaramos'' neighborhood (which belongs to the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality) and limits to the east with the ''Colinas de Los Ruices'' neighborhood, in the Sucre Municipality. To the North, it borders with the Francisco Fajardo Highway and to the Southeast with the El Hatillo Municipality and to the Southwest with the ''Hoyo de la Puerta'' neighborhood (Libertador Municipality). Economy The main economic activity in Baruta is non-manufacturing business in the many office buildings within the Municipality. For example, the Procter & Gamble Latin American Headquarters are located there. Commerce is also a great source of revenue for the ''Baruteños'', as some of the most attractive night spots in the Greater Caracas are located in ''Las Mercedes'' district. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Venezuela
Municipalities () are subdivisions of the states of Venezuela. There are 335 municipalities dividing the 23 states and the Capital District. Municipalities and their seats by federal entity Capital District # Libertador Bolivarian Municipality (Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ... Libertador covers about half of the city of Caracas, officially a metropolitan area; the rest of the city is covered by four adjacent municipalities in Miranda state: Baruta, Chacao, el Hatillo and Sucre) Amazonas Anzoátegui Apure Aragua Barinas Bolívar Carabobo Cojedes Delta Amacuro Falcón Guárico Lara Mérida Miranda Monagas Nueva Esparta Portuguesa Sucre Táchira Trujillo Vargas # Vargas ( La Guaira) Yaracuy Zulia References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Chaguaramos
The Libertador Bolivarian Municipality () is the only administrative division of the Capital District of Venezuela and along with the municipalities of Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo and Sucre forms the Metropolitan District of Caracas. It is landlocked by Vargas State and also borders Miranda State on the east and south. The municipality is one of a number in Venezuela named " Libertador Municipality", in honour of Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar. Libertador is one of the smallest municipalities in Venezuela, with a total area of . It is the largest in terms of population, with approximately 2.1 million inhabitants. In this municipality is home to the Miraflores presidential palace, the Federal Legislative Palace, the National Electoral Council, the main offices of PDVSA and CANTV, the Central Bank of Venezuela and the public ministry. History It was first established in 1901 under the name of Libertador Department; with the Department of Vargas (now Vargas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Nuevo Tiempo
Un Nuevo Tiempo (Spanish for 'A New Era', UNT) is a centre-left political party in Venezuela. It received 11% of the vote in the 2008 regional elections. The party arose in Zulia State, Venezuela's most populous, and remains far stronger in its home region than elsewhere in the country, providing the state governor since 2000 (currently Manuel Rosales) and the mayor of its largest city, Maracaibo (since 2010, currently, Eveling Trejo de Rosales). Twelve candidates of ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' or supported by ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' were elected deputies to the National Assembly out of 15 in the 2010 Venezuelan parliamentary election. Along with some other opposition parties, ''Un Nuevo Tiempo'' boycotted the 2005 Venezuelan parliamentary election. The party's previous leader was Manuel Rosales, Governor of Zulia (2000–2008). He was also its candidate for the 2006 presidential election, attracting 37% of the national vote. Omar Barboza is the current party president. UNT was admitte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice First
The Justice First () is a centre-right political party in Venezuela. Founded in 1992 as a civil association, it became a political party in 2000. Henrique Capriles was the candidate of the party in 2013 Venezuelan presidential election. History Justice First was created in 1992 as a civil association by a group of university students under the leadership of Alirio Abreu Burelli. The group was concerned about what they saw as a deterioration of judicial power in the country, and sought a reform of Venezuela's legal system. Abreu Burelli was magistrate of the federal Supreme Court of Justice and Vice President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS). The association entered the political arena during the 1999 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, in which they presented a draft for the country's new constitution. Justice First became a political party in 2000, initially as a regional party, and registered as a national party with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Capriles Radonski
Henrique Capriles Radonski (; born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer, who served as the 36th Governor of Miranda from 2008 to 2017. Born in Caracas, he received a degree in law from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and later in tax law from the Central University of Venezuela. He first ventured into politics at age 26, when he became the youngest member ever elected to the Venezuelan parliament. He secured a seat in the Chamber of Deputies in the 1998 parliamentary elections, under the Christian Democratic Party ( Copei). He served as vice president of the Congress and president of the Chamber of Deputies until their dissolution by the Constituent Assembly in August 1999. In 2000, he co-founded the political party Primero Justicia, alongside politicians Julio Borges and Leopoldo Lopez, and ran successfully for the mayorship of the Baruta municipality in the regional elections held in July 2000, and later for the governorship of the Miranda stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivonne Attas
Ivonne Attas (born August 2, 1943) is a Syrian-born Venezuelan telenovela soap opera actress and politician of the Copei party. Attas served as the third mayor of the Baruta Municipality (3 December 1995 - 30 July 2000). She has mostly portrayed villains during her acting career. In addition, she has worked as a columnist and interviewer for various Venezuelan media outlets. Early life and education Ivonne Attas was born into a family of Jewish merchants from Thessaloniki who moved to the city of Damascus, Syria. Her parents are Darío Attas Nissim and Pauline (Palomba) Calderón de Attas. Her family moved to Venezuela when she was a child. She completed studies in Social Communication at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, as well as dramatic art studies at the Juana Sujo School of Dramatic Art. Career Her career as an actress was defined by villain roles that she has played in most of the soap operas in which she has acted, even generating hatred among offscreen viewers. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cafetal
El Cafetal is a neighborhood located in the Baruta Municipality of Caracas, Venezuela. History It is an urbanization developed in the second half of the 20th century in what was once a coffee plantation (from which it took its name) in the east of the capital of Venezuela. Indeed, in the 1950s, in the confines of the old town of Petare, the urbanization "El Marqués" was promoted, promoted by René Bruno Borges Villegas and designed by the engineer Luis Borges de Villegas Mejías. To the south of Guaire emerged the urbanizations "Las Mercedes" (1940) developed by Venezolana de Inversiones CA. (VICA) and "Los Rosales" (1941-1948) projected by Juan Bernardo Arismendi. Between Las Mercedes and El Marques there was a territory dedicated to coffee plantations, which was frequently flooded by the broken places of the Guaire River and consequently it was partly marshy: El Cafetal. The urbanization of the territory in which the parish is located today and the urbanization was initiated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Caracas
Metropolitan Region of Caracas (MRC) or Greater Caracas (GC) (; RMC or ''Gran Caracas''; GC) is the urban agglomeration comprising the Metropolitan District of Caracas and the adjacent 11 municipalities over Miranda and Vargas state in Venezuela. Thus, it does not constitute a single administrative unit. The conurbation A conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ... spreads south, west, east and north of Caracas. It has a population of 5,243,301. Geography Metropolitan divisions The Metropolitan Region of Caracas consists of five distinct metropolitan divisions/conurbations, subdividing the region into five divisions. References External links Alcaldía Mayor MetropolitanaEstado MirandaEstado Vargas Caracas Geography of Capital District (Venezuela) Geography of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer health, personal care and hygiene products; these products are organized into several segments including beauty; grooming; health care; fabric and home care; and baby, feminine, and family care. Before the sale of Pringles and Duracell to Kellogg's and Berkshire Hathaway, respectively, its product portfolio also included food, snacks, beverages, and batteries. P&G is incorporated in Ohio. In 2014, P&G recorded $83.1 billion in sales. On August 1, 2014, P&G announced it was streamlining the company, dropping and selling off around 100 brands from its product portfolio in order to focus on the remaining 65 brands, which produced 95% of the company's profits. A.G. Lafley, the company's chairman and CEO until October 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Hatillo Municipality
El Hatillo Municipality () is an administrative division of the Miranda State, State of Miranda, Venezuela; along with Baruta Municipality, Baruta, Chacao Municipality, Chacao, Libertador Municipality (Venezuelan Capital District), Libertador and Sucre Municipality, Miranda, Sucre, it is one of the five municipality, municipalities of Caracas, the Capital (political), capital of Venezuela. It is located in the southeastern area of Caracas, and in the northwestern part of the State of Miranda. The County seat, seat of the municipal government is El Hatillo Town, Miranda, El Hatillo Town, founded in 1784 by Don Baltasar de León, who was instrumental in the area's development. Although the town had its origins during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Spanish colonisation, the municipality was not established until 1991. In 2000 – the year after a new Constitution of Venezuela, constitution was enacted in Venezuela – some of the municipality functions were delegated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
