Punta Cardón | |
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Town | |
  Punta Cardón | |
| Coordinates: 11°39′03″N 70°12′56″W / 11.6508°N 70.2156°W | |
| Country | Venezuela |
| State | Falcón |
| Municipality | Carirubana |
| Time zone | UTC -4:30 |
| Postal code | 4154 |
| Climate | BWh |
Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela.
The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela. Since the mid-1940s the community has become surrounded by the Paraguana- oil-refining complex, which today is run by PDVSA, the state oil company.[1] The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela.[2]
Notes[edit]
- ^ Canino & Stronen 2015, PT76.
- ^ González Casas & Vicente Garrido 2010, p. 845.
Sources[edit]
- Canino, Maria Victoria; Stronen, Iselin Asedotter (2015-06-11), "Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: An ethnographic study of Punta Cardon", Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America, Zed Books Ltd., ISBN 978-1-78360-095-3, retrieved 2018-05-15
- González Casas, Lorenzo; Vicente Garrido, Henry (2010), Mundos que se desvanecen: el exilio arquitectónico español en Venezuela. (in Spanish), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Americanistas, retrieved 2018-05-14