Bolívar (state)

Bolívar
Symbols
flag coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Venezuela
Capital	Ciudad Bolívar
surface	240,528 km²
Residents	1,809,300 (2017 estimate)
density	7.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	VE-F
Website	www.e-bolivar.gov.ve (Spanish)
politics
governor	Francisco Rangel Gomez
Political party	United Socialist Party of Venezuela

Coordinates: 6 °  N , 64 °  W

Bolívar is the largest state in Venezuela in terms of area with a share of around 26 percent of the total area of ​​the country. The capital of this state is Ciudad Bolívar .

Both the state and the capital - like many other places and institutions in Venezuela and South America - are named after the national hero Simón Bolívar .

Most important cities

• Caicara del Orinoco
• Ciudad Bolívar
• Ciudad Guayana
• Ciudad Píar
• El Callao
• Maripa
• Santa Elena de Uairén
• Tumeremo
• Upata

Administrative division

The state is made up of eleven districts ( Municipios ), which are divided into 47 parroquias at the lowest level :

district Capital Caroní Ciudad Guayana Cedeño Caicara del Orinoco El Callao El Callao Gran Sabana Santa Elena de Uairén Heres Ciudad Bolívar Padre Pedro Chien El Palmar Piar Upata Raúl Leoni Ciudad Piar Roscio Guasipati Siphons Tumeremo Sucre Maripa

Bolívar to Municipios Brazil Guiana Esequiba Amazon Apure Guárico Anzoátegui Delta Amacuro Angostura Caroní Chien Cedeño El Callao Gran Sabana Heres Piar Roscio Siphons Sucre

geography

In the west and north, the state is almost completely bordered by the Orinoco , on which the two largest cities Ciudad Bolívar and Ciudad Guayana are located. Other major rivers are the Río Caroní and Río Caura , both tributaries of the Orinoco. On the Río Caroní is the Guri reservoir , the seventh largest reservoir in the world.

Agriculture and cattle breeding are practiced along the Orinocos, the west and south-west of Bolívar are hardly inhabited and characterized by dense wet and cloud forests .

The east and south-east are characterized by the mountainous country of Guayana , one of the oldest geological formations in the world, which is known in particular for its table mountains ( tepuis ) and is characterized in the lower elevations by savannahs and grasslands as well as tropical rainforest . A large part is protected by the Canaima National Park , which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .

Attractions

Angel somersault

• Ciudad Bolívar with the colonial city center
• Gran Sabana with the characteristic Tepuis (table mountains)
• Canaima National Park (World Natural Heritage) with Salto Ángel , the highest waterfall in the world

Web links

Commons : Bolívar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Government website (Spanish)
• Information about the state (Spanish)
• Geographical and political regions of Venezuela
• Tourist information on the Gran Sabana (English)