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Demonstrators clash with police close to an armored police car during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan ...
The Climate of Venezuela is characterized for being tropical and megathermal as a result of its geographical location near the Equator, but because of the topography and the dominant wind direction, several climatic types occur which can be the same as found in temperate latitudes, and even polar regions. Latitude exerts little influence on the ...
In Venezuela, the storm drops at least 13.35 inches (339 mm) in Guanare. The rainfall causes mudslides, particularly near the city of Caracas, that cover many low-income housing units. Of the 173 deaths caused by Bret in Venezuela, most occur in the low-income areas near Caracas. [26]
Venezuela has 43 national parks and 36 natural monuments, and is the country in Latin America with the largest proportion of protected lands, with over 55 percent of its total territory. (Parks and monuments are only 17 percent of that total; the remaining protected areas are outside those parks and monuments.)
Venezuela's opposition said its leader, María Corina Machado, was briefly arrested and then freed. It came after she had addressed a protest rally in Caracas on the eve of President Nicolás ...
Drought has turned parts of the area behind Venezuela's Guri dam, one of the world's biggest, into a desert, but the government is optimistic. Drought-hit Venezuela awaits rain at crucial Guri dam ...
Two weeks later, in a 52-hour span during 14, 15 and 16 December 1999, 911 millimeters (35.9 in) of rain (approximately one year's average total rainfall for the region) was measured on the north-central coast of Venezuela at Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela. These heavy rains included 72 millimeters (2.8 in) of ...
The national homicide average for Venezuela in 2023 was 26.8, almost four times higher than the rate in the U.S. According to the group, the Caracas homicide rate rate for 2023 came down a bit ...