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Maracay
KNOWLEDGE OF Maracay
Maracay is a city (population: 2001 census 491,797, although the "metropolitan" area, which encompasses other small settlements is estimated to have around 1.000.000 inhabitants) in central Venezuela and is the capital and most important city of Aragua State. It is the municipal seat of Girardot Municipality.
It was officially established on March 5, 1701, by Bishop Diego de Baños y Sotomayor in the valleys of Tocopio and Tapatapa (what is known today as the central valley of Aragua) in northern Venezuela. It was named Maracay after a local indigenous chief. Maracay seems to mean "Tiger" in an ancient Caribbean language.
Today Maracay is a modern city with a large manufacturing park. Main products are paper, textiles and chemicals.
Maracay is also the home of the local baseball team "Tigres de Aragua".
In Spanish, Maracay is known as "Ciudad Jardín", or "Garden City". Maracay was the name of a Cacique (Caribe Indian Chief) of the indigeneous people that lived in the area before the Spanish discovery of America.
Maracay is the cradle of Venezuelan aviation, and it is home to the two largest Air Force bases in the country, in addition to other military facilities including an Army Armor division and the Venezuelan Paratroopers main base and training center. It is also home to the government-owned ammunitions and weapons factory that produces the Venezuelan version of the FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger - Light Automatic Rifle) rifle. Maracay is a military city.
Maracay has good transportation facilities and infrastructure that effectively connects it to the rest of the country, it is linked to most other important localities by the Autopista Regional del Centro (Central Regional Highway), it also has good access to the only, small railway system in the country. The city boasts the national Hidroplane airport, located on the shore of the Lago de Valencia (Lake of Valencia).
One of the most important cities in Venezuela, Maracay is primarilly an industrial and commercial center, the city produces textiles, paper, cement, tobacco, cattle derivated foods, such as milk or meat conserves, as well as soap and perfumes. Even though it is an industrial center, the surroundings of Maracay live of an intensive agriculture, where sugarcane, tobacco, coffee and cocoa stand out as the main products. There are also cattle-herding and timber-cutting activities.
The mountains on the north side of Maracay, that separate it from the coast, make up the Henry Pitier National Park, named after the German naturalist that studied them. The park is a very lush rainforest, with a great variety of ferns. Two very winding roads cut through the park over the mountains to the coast. One, beginning at the North-Central part of the city known as Urbanización El Castaño, goes to the beach town of Choroní. The other, beginning at the North-Western part of the city known as Urbanización El Limón, goes to Ocumare de la Costa and the beaches of Cata and Catica.
Maracay is the birthplace of several Major League Baseball players, including Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Guillén, Ray Olmedo, and Luis González.
It was officially established on March 5, 1701, by Bishop Diego de Baños y Sotomayor in the valleys of Tocopio and Tapatapa (what is known today as the central valley of Aragua) in northern Venezuela. It was named Maracay after a local indigenous chief. Maracay seems to mean "Tiger" in an ancient Caribbean language.
Today Maracay is a modern city with a large manufacturing park. Main products are paper, textiles and chemicals.
Maracay is also the home of the local baseball team "Tigres de Aragua".
In Spanish, Maracay is known as "Ciudad Jardín", or "Garden City". Maracay was the name of a Cacique (Caribe Indian Chief) of the indigeneous people that lived in the area before the Spanish discovery of America.
Maracay is the cradle of Venezuelan aviation, and it is home to the two largest Air Force bases in the country, in addition to other military facilities including an Army Armor division and the Venezuelan Paratroopers main base and training center. It is also home to the government-owned ammunitions and weapons factory that produces the Venezuelan version of the FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Leger - Light Automatic Rifle) rifle. Maracay is a military city.
Maracay has good transportation facilities and infrastructure that effectively connects it to the rest of the country, it is linked to most other important localities by the Autopista Regional del Centro (Central Regional Highway), it also has good access to the only, small railway system in the country. The city boasts the national Hidroplane airport, located on the shore of the Lago de Valencia (Lake of Valencia).
One of the most important cities in Venezuela, Maracay is primarilly an industrial and commercial center, the city produces textiles, paper, cement, tobacco, cattle derivated foods, such as milk or meat conserves, as well as soap and perfumes. Even though it is an industrial center, the surroundings of Maracay live of an intensive agriculture, where sugarcane, tobacco, coffee and cocoa stand out as the main products. There are also cattle-herding and timber-cutting activities.
The mountains on the north side of Maracay, that separate it from the coast, make up the Henry Pitier National Park, named after the German naturalist that studied them. The park is a very lush rainforest, with a great variety of ferns. Two very winding roads cut through the park over the mountains to the coast. One, beginning at the North-Central part of the city known as Urbanización El Castaño, goes to the beach town of Choroní. The other, beginning at the North-Western part of the city known as Urbanización El Limón, goes to Ocumare de la Costa and the beaches of Cata and Catica.
Maracay is the birthplace of several Major League Baseball players, including Miguel Cabrera, Carlos Guillén, Ray Olmedo, and Luis González.
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