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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]
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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Enrique Planchart, Martín Tovar y Tovar, (Volume 1 of Biblioteca venezolana de cultura) Edición del Ministerio de Educación, Dirección de Cultura, 1952; Juan Calzadilla, Tovar y Tovar, C.V.G. Siderúrgica del Orinoco, 1977. Francisco Javier Duplá, Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1827–1902, (Volume 75 of Biblioteca biográfica venezolana), Editora ...
Our Lady of Coromoto (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Coromoto), also known as the Virgin of Coromoto (Spanish: Virgen de Coromoto), is a celebrated Catholic image of an alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary. In 1942, she was declared the patroness of Venezuela. Statue of the Virgin of Coromoto in Guanare.
Following Venezuela's separation from Gran Colombia, the Venezuelan congress approved a new constitution and banned Simón Bolívar from his own homeland. [6] Although the 1830 Constitution prescribed democracy, tradition and practical difficulties militated against the actual working of a republican form of government, and in practice an oligarchy governed the nation.