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In the 2000s and 2010s, Caracas suffered from a housing shortage, with shortages amounting to about 400,000 Caracas homes in 2011. Construction of homes halted in Venezuela due to the fears of expropriations that occurred under the Bolivarian government while the government was also unable to build enough homes for Venezuelans.
Cumaná was the first settlement founded by Spain in Venezuela and South America, established in 1515 by Franciscan friars, [2] under the name Nueva Toledo, but due to successful attacks by the indigenous people (such as the Cumanagoto people), it had to be refounded several times until Diego Hernández de Serpa's refoundation in 1569 with the name of Cumaná.
Map of Venezuela in 1810, by Agostino Codazzi; Cumaná Province is in orange at the top right. New Andalusia Province or Province of Cumaná (1537–1864) was a province of the Spanish Empire, and later of Gran Colombia and Venezuela. It included the territory of present-day Venezuelan states Sucre, Anzoátegui and Monagas.
Historically this river had also been known as the 'Cumaná River', for it has an iconic value in the city of Cumaná. [2]Alexander von Humboldt praised the pleasant atmosphere of the river banks in his travelogue Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814–29) [3]
A plan of the Santa María de la Cabeza castle, designed by engineer Pablo Díaz Fajardo in 1737. The Santa María de la Cabeza castle is a fortress built c. 1669–73 in the city of Cumaná on the orders of Sancho Fernando de Angulo y Sandoval, governor of the Province of Cumaná, as a replacement for the San Antonio de la Eminencia castle. [1]
Between 2011 and 2017 the Venezuelan government built 1.3 million new homes as part the GMVV programme and in July 2023, Nicolás Maduro announced that the program had delivered 4.6 million houses. The program has been subject to criticism due to corruption, opacity and structural deficiencies.
The Diego Bautista Urbaneja Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 26,265 (up from 22,177 in 2000). This amounts to 1.8% of the state's population. [3] The municipality's population density is 2,188.75 inhabitants per square kilometre (5,668.8/sq mi). [4]
The Cumanagoto people are a group of Native Americans in South America.Their language belongs to the Carib language family. [citation needed] Their territory extended originally over the ancient province of Nueva Andalucía (Cumaná and Barcelona) in eastern Venezuela, and their descendants live now in the north of Anzoátegui State, Venezuela.