Tuesday, July 30, 2013

¿What is Carúpano?


Carúpano City

Carúpano is a city in the State of Sucre in Venezuela, located in the Northeast region, 120 kilometres from the State capital CumanáCarúpano is the main urban center of the region of Paria, concentrating administrative, port, educational services, health, marketing headquarters of agricultural and fishery products. The union of different geographical, climate, scenic, human factors and the large expanse of shoreline that has give great tourist attraction which attracts many tourists. 

Old House Carúpano
The city of Carúpano was ecclesiastically founded on 23 December of the year of 1647, by Bishop Fray Damián López de Haro, with the construction of a chapel in the incipient village of Carupano - up under the advocation of Santa Cruz. It is to point out that you for the year of 1647, prior to founding the city that is now known, there were some villages in valleys neighbors, like Carúpano - above, Macarapana, Guayacán, Areocuar, Caratacuar, all these hamlets belonging to Puerto Santo, first ecclesiastical parish which was erected by those contour.

                                                               
City of jovial people, Carúpano had a great importance, its port from where came the shipments of coffee and cocoa. One of the things that draw attention of this city, is the House of cable, where he became the first submarine cable between Europe and America, joining the French city of Marseille with Carúpano, at the end of the 19th century. This House, today, is headquarters to the Tomas Merle Foundation and the Paria project, two of the most beautiful works that are carried out in the country and who have been awarded abroad, represent a model of harmonious growth between tourism, industry, nature and people.

Location of Carúpano


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