Calabozo

Calabozo on the map of Venezuela

Calabozo, officially also partially listed Villa de Todos los Santos de Calabozo as Calaboso, is a city in Venezuela. It is located in the state of Guarico and was its former capital. Now she is the chief town of the district of Miranda.

Calabozo is the seat of the Archdiocese of Calabozo.

Economy

The city has a population of 153 231 (2007), making it the largest and most populous city in the state of Guarico. It is the second largest agro- industrial city of Venezuela to Acarigua, Portuguesa and develops in the production of consumer goods and services continues.

Location

The city is located some 200 km ( straight line ) south of the capital Caracas, 101 meters above sea level and is located on the banks of the river Guárico in the central plateau of the country ( Llanos).

History

Established was the place on 1 February 1724 after previously was a settlement of indigenous people there. Alexander von Humboldt visited the city in 1800 on his way to the Orinoco. At that time Calabozo had about 5,000 inhabitants. 1820 were defeated by the revolutionaries of Simón Bolívar and José Antonio Páez here the Spanish troops under Pablo Morillo. He said: "We found in Calabozo, in the midst of the Llanos, an electrical machine with large wheels, electrophoric, batteries, electric meters, just a camera, almost as completely as our physicists in Europe they have And all Such was not in the. bought United States, it was the work of a man who never saw an instrument that could draw no one to counsel, who knew the electrical phenomena only from the writing of the Sigaud de la Fond and from Franklin's memoirs Carlos del Pozo -. then called the esteem worthy, ingenious man - had first built from large glass jars, where he cut the necks Cylindermaschinen ".

The German naturalist and polymath Alexander von Humboldt visited the city in 1799 on his expedition through South America. He mentioned in his 1859 published book an earthquake, offset by 2 clock at night in fear and terror, the Caracas and Calabozo region on 30 April 1812. Initially it was believed that the noise would come from a military bombardment in the vicinity, which mobilized the garrison located in the city.