Caicara del Orinoco

Town in Bolivar State, Venezuela

Town

7°39′N 66°10′W / 7.650°N 66.167°W / 7.650; -66.167Area

• Total38 km² (15 sq mi) • Water0.16 km² (0.06 sq mi)Time zoneUTC−4 (VET)

Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela.

Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara. When completed the bridge will be 2.4 km long.

Prehistory

Alexander von Humboldt discovered petroglyphs carved in the granite and gneiss near the river at Caicara.^[1] Further investigation revealed a large number of prehistoric petroglyphs in the area.^[1]

History

It was founded in the middle of the Eighteenth Century.

Politics

The Mayor of Caicara del Orinoco is Rafael Gutiérrez,^[2] a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Notes

^ ^a ^b Bendrat, T. A. (1912). "Discovery of Some New Petroglyphs near Caicara on the Orinoco" American Journal of Archaeology 16(4): pp. 518-523, pp. 518-519 (accessed via JSTOR)
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