Calabozo
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Coordinates: 8 ° 55 ′ N , 67 ° 26 ′ W Calabozo on the map of Guárico
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| Country | Venezuela | |
| State | Guárico | |
| City foundation | February 1, 1724 | |
| Residents | 153.231 | |
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| height | 101 m | |
| Waters | Guárico with the Calabozo dam | |
| Time zone | UTC -4: 30 | |
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Calabozo , officially Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo also partially listed as Calaboso , is a city in Venezuela . It is located in the state of Guárico and was its former capital. Now it is the main town of the Miranda district .
Calabozo is the seat of the Archdiocese of Calabozo .
economy
The city has 153,231 inhabitants (2007), making it the largest and most populous city in the state of Guárico . It is the second largest agro-industrial city in Venezuela after Acarigua , Portuguesa and continues to develop in the production of consumer goods and services.
location
The city is located about 200 km (as the crow flies) south of the capital Caracas at 101 meters above sea level and lies on the banks of the Guárico River in the middle plateau of the country ( Llanos ).
history
The place was founded on February 1, 1724, after previously there was a settlement of the indigenous people. The German natural scientist and polymath Alexander von Humboldt visited the city in 1800 on his way to the Orinoco. Among other things, he reports:
“In Calabozo, in the middle of the Llanos, we found an electric machine with large disks, electrophores, batteries, electrometers, in short an apparatus, almost as complete as our physicists in Europe have. And none of this was bought in the United States, it was the work of a man who had never seen an instrument, who could not consult, who knew electrical phenomena only from the writing of the Sigaud de la Fond and from Franklin's Memoirs. Carlos del Pozo - that's the name of the respectable, ingenious man - first built cylinder machines from large glass vessels from which he cut the necks. "
At that time Calabozo had about 5000 inhabitants. In his book published in German in 1859, Humboldt mentioned an earthquake which terrified the Caracas and Calabozo region on April 30, 1812 at 2 a.m. At first it was believed that the din came from a nearby military cannonade , which mobilized the garrison in the city.
In 1820 the Spanish troops under Pablo Morillo were defeated here by the revolutionaries of Simón Bolívar and José Antonio Páez .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt: Alexander von Humboldt's journey into the equinoctial regions of the new continent . According to the arrangement and with the assistance of the author. The only ones from A. v. Humboldt recognized edition in German. tape 1 . JG Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart 1859, p. 401 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on September 12, 2019] digitized from Gutenberg Ebook).
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt: Alexander von Humboldt's journey into the equinoctial regions of the new continent . According to the arrangement and with the assistance of the author. The only ones from A. v. Humboldt recognized edition in German. tape 1 . JG Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart 1859, p. 216 f . ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on September 12, 2019] digitized from Gutenberg Ebook).