Punta Cardón

Punta Cardón
Town
Punta Cardón is located in Venezuela
Punta Cardón
Punta Cardón
Location within Venezuela
Coordinates: 11°39′03″N 70°12′56″W / 11.6508°N 70.2156°W / 11.6508; -70.2156
CountryVenezuela
StateFalcón
MunicipalityCarirubana
Time zoneUTC -4:30
Postal code
4154
ClimateBWh
Image of a church in the town
Paraguaná Zoological Park

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. The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela.

Notes

  1. ↑ Canino & Stronen 2015, PT76.
  2. ↑ González Casas & Vicente Garrido 2010, p. 845.

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