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Colonia Tovar (Tovar Colony) is a cold mountain town of Venezuela, capital of the municipality Tovar in Aragua state. It is located about 65.5 km (41 mi) west of Caracas.It was founded on April 8, 1843, by a group of 390 immigrants [1] from the then independent state of the Grand Duchy of Baden (later incorporated into Germany).
The Tovar Municipality is one of the 18 municipalities that makes up the Venezuelan state of Aragua and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 14,161. [1] The town of Colonia Tovar is the shire town of the Tovar Municipality. [2]
The National Academy of the History of Venezuela is an institution dedicated to the study and promotion of the history of Venezuela.Specifically, the objective is the collection of bibliographic, newspaper, audiovisual or other documentation to look at the political, economic and social events that have taken place in the country.
Aragua was created as a province on February 11, 1848 when it was separated from that of Caracas, with a territory similar to that which today encompasses the current state of Aragua and composed of La Victoria, Turmero, Maracay, Villa de Cura and San Sebastian, having the city of La Victoria as its capital.
In Colonia Tovar, just a minority of its people speak the Colonia Tovar dialect, a German dialect said to be difficult to understand for native standard German speakers. Most of them have lost their language and culture over the years, keeping only some customs that have remained through programs to promote tourism in the region, considering it ...
In 2007, the country enacted Ley Organica Sobre el Derecho de las Mujeres a una Vida Libre de Violencia (Organic Law on the Right of Women to a Life Free of Violence). [ 16 ] During the crisis in Venezuela under the government of Nicolás Maduro , women in Venezuela became more vulnerable to sexual violence as a result of weak institutions and ...
After Gottfried and Thekla were married in Italy in 1955, she too moved to Venezuela. Unhappy with managing the factory, the couple established a quieter life in Colonia Tovar (an isolated mountain village founded in the nineteenth century near Caracas by Bavarian immigrants). They constructed a modest house on a friend’s land with the ...
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