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Cumaná, the Glossary

Cumaná is the capital city of Venezuela's Sucre State. It is located east of Caracas. Cumaná was one of the first cities founded by Spain in the mainland Americas and is the oldest continuously-inhabited Hispanic-established city in South America. Its early history includes several successful counters by the indigenous people of the area who were attempting to prevent Spanish incursion into their land, resulting in the city being refounded several times.^[1]

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Aimé Bonpland

Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (22 August 1773 – 11 May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804.

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Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Andrés Eloy Blanco

Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño (6 August 1896 – 21 May 1955) was a noted Venezuelan poet and politician.

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Antonio José de Sucre

Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá (3 February 1795 – 4 June 1830), known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" ("Grand Marshal of Ayacucho"), was a Venezuelan general and politician who served as the president of Bolivia from 1825 to 1828.

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Antonio José de Sucre Airport

Antonio José de Sucre Airport is a commercial airport serving Cumaná, the capital of Sucre state in Venezuela.

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Armando Galarraga

Armando Antonio Galarraga Barreto (born January 15, 1982) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher.

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer.

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Caracas

Caracas, officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas).

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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César Jiménez (baseball)

César Enrique Jiménez (born November 12, 1984) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher.

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Cumanagoto people

The Cumanagoto people are a group of Native Americans in South America.

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Demonym

A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.

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Diego Hernández de Serpa

Diego Hernández de Serpa (1510 – May 10, 1570) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who under the patronage of Philip II of Spain was part of the European conquest and colonization of the New Andalusia Province (Venezuela region) in northern South America.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Francisco Sánchez (swimmer)

Francisco Demetrio Sánchez Betancourt (born September 6, 1976) is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Venezuela, who won the 50 meter freestyle at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships (25 meter pool) in Rio de Janeiro.

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Friar

A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders in the Roman Catholic Church.

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Gelmin Rivas

Gelmin Javier Rivas Boada (born 23 March 1989) is a Venezuelan footballer who currently plays as a striker for Deportivo La Guaira.

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Iñaki Anasagasti

Iñaki Anasagasti (born 16 November 1947) is a Venezuelan-Spanish politician, belonging to the Basque Nationalist Party.

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Javier Otero

Javier Alejandro Otero León (born 18 November 2002) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Orlando City in MLS.

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Jesús Sucre

Jesús Marcelo Sucre Medina (born April 30, 1988) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher who is a free agent.

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José Antonio Ramos Sucre

José Antonio Ramos Sucre (Cumaná, 9 June 1890 – Geneva, 13 June 1930) was a Venezuelan poet, professor, diplomat and scholar.

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José Buttó

José Alejandro Buttó (born March 19, 1998) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Luis Maza

Luis Alberto Maza Mayorca (born June 22, 1980) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball infielder.

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Luis Peñalver

Luis Antonio Peñalver (born November 20, 1941- December 21, 2019) was a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher.

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Manzanares River (South America)

The Manzanares is an 80 km long river in Venezuela.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Mayor–council government

A mayor–council government is a system of local government in which a mayor who is directly elected by the voters acts as chief executive, while a separately elected city council constitutes the legislative body.

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Miss Venezuela

Miss Venezuela (Spanish: Organización Miss Venezuela) is a Venezuelan beauty pageant operated by the Cisneros Group.

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Mochima National Park

Mochima National Park is located in the States of Anzoátegui and Sucre, on the northeastern coast of Venezuela.

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Municipalities of Venezuela

Municipalities of Venezuela are subdivisions of the States of Venezuela.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.

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New Andalusia Province

New Andalusia Province or Province of Cumaná (1537–1864) was a province of the Spanish Empire, and later of Gran Colombia and Venezuela.

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Pehr Löfling

Pehr Löfling (31 January 1729 – 22 February 1756) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Poecilia wingei

Poecilia wingei, known to aquarists as Endlers or Endler's livebearer, in the genus Poecilia, is a small fish native to the Paria Peninsula in Venezuela.

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Rafael Betancourt

Rafael Jose Betancourt (born April 29, 1975) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball relief pitcher.

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Santa María de la Cabeza castle

Santa María de la Cabeza castle is a colonial castle built in the seventeenth century by the Spanish monarchy in the center of the city of Cumaná, Venezuela.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

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States of Venezuela

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states (estados), a Capital District (Distrito Capital) and the Federal Dependencies (Dependencias Federales), which consist of many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Sucre (state)

The Sucre State (Estado Sucre) is one of the 23 states of Venezuela.

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Theodor de Bry

Theodor de Bry (also Theodorus de Bry) (152827 March 1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas.

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Time in Venezuela

Venezuela uses the UTC−04:00 time offset, and they had previously used UTC−04:30 from 9 December 2007 until 30 April 2016.

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Toyota

is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan.

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Toyota Fortuner

The Toyota Fortuner, also known as the Toyota SW4, is a mid-size SUV manufactured by the Japanese automaker Toyota since 2004.

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Toyota Hilux

The, stylised as HiLux and historically as Hi-Lux, is a series of pickup trucks produced and marketed by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota.

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").

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Tuna

A tuna (tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family.

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The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is a left-wing to far-left socialist political party which has been the ruling party of Venezuela since 2007.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaná

Also known as Cumaná, Venezuela, History of Cumaná, Puerto de las Perlas.

, Toyota Fortuner, Toyota Hilux, Tropical savanna climate, Tuna, United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Vanessa Peretti, Venezuela.

Cumaná, the Glossary

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See also

1515 establishments in the Spanish Empire

Cities in Sucre (state)

Populated places established in 1515

Port cities and towns in Venezuela

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