Urumaco
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Coordinates: 11 ° 12 ′ N , 70 ° 15 ′ W Urumaco on the map of Falcón
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| Country | Venezuela | |
| State | Falcon | |
| Residents | 5107 (2001) | |
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| Time zone | UTC -4 | |
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Urumaco is a village in the Venezuelan state of Falcón , 75 kilometers west of Coro . According to estimates by the Universidad de los Andes, it had around 5,107 inhabitants in 2010 .
Urumaco is the administrative seat of the district of the same name. The village is connected by National Road 3 with Dabajuro and Maracaibo in the west and with Coro in the east.
Attractions
Urumaco has a paleontological museum. There are Native American petroglyphs nearby and an important fossil site from the Miocene . These included finds of three-meter-long shells of giant tortoises as well as bones of 500 kg rodents and 11-meter-long crocodiles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paleontological Museum
- ↑ Lizzie Wade: Back-breaking job. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 8, 2016, p. 16 ( online )