Venezuela
Venezuela is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America; it has a borde with Colombia at the west, with Guyana to the east, with Brazil to the south and with the Caribbean Sea to the north. There are 24 states with the Capital District and there is the Capital called Caracas. Venezuela has a population of 29,000,000 and a territory of 996,445 km2. Venezuela is considered a country with extreme biodiversity, with the Andes Mountains and the Maracaibo’s lake in the west, the Amazon basin rainforest in the south, the plains in the Orinoco River at the center of the country and the Caribbean coast at the north. The language here is Spanish.
My hometown is Maracaibo, which is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state. The population of the city is approximately 1,495,200 with the metropolitan area estimated at 2,110,500.
Maracaibo is nicknamed La Tierra del Sol Amada ("The Beloved Land of the Sun").
It’s the city which has the bridge Rafael Urdaneta, whichbecame the longest concrete bridge in the world long time ago, but now it’s not the longest anymore. The structure is in constant use and remains today as the most important link between Maracaibo, along with much of the state of Zulia, and the rest of Venezuela.
By Alessandro Medici
My hometown is Maracaibo, which is a city and municipality located in northwestern Venezuela off the western coast of the Lake Maracaibo. It is the second-largest city in the country after the national capital Caracas and the capital of Zulia state. The population of the city is approximately 1,495,200 with the metropolitan area estimated at 2,110,500.
Maracaibo is nicknamed La Tierra del Sol Amada ("The Beloved Land of the Sun").
It’s the city which has the bridge Rafael Urdaneta, whichbecame the longest concrete bridge in the world long time ago, but now it’s not the longest anymore. The structure is in constant use and remains today as the most important link between Maracaibo, along with much of the state of Zulia, and the rest of Venezuela.
By Alessandro Medici