Venezuela

LAL TRAVEL AGENCY

Culture and Lifestyle in Venezuela

93% of the population live in Urban areas in the northern part of the country. Ethnicities include Spanish, and there is some Portuguese, Italian and German. Venezuela's primary language is Spanish but English, Italian, French, Latin and Greek are all spoken here as well. Venezuelan people eat corn, rice, yams, beans, saltwater fish, seafood, beef, lamb, chicken, and pasta. Baseball, football and tennis are pretty popular sports that are well known in the US. Soccer is Venezuela's national sport. Carnivals in Venezuela are held every February and are the biggest and best carnivals. Natives can be seen disguised in masks of Superman, El Zorro, Snow White and other comic and cartoon characters. Costumed dancers move around the town for a number of days and also dance to beats of Calypso music. Venezuelans pride themselves on their hospitality. They go out of their way to make guests feel welcome and comfortable. Venezuelan hosts cater to their every desire.

GEOGRAPHY IN
VENEZUELA
Northern south American, bordering the Caribbean sea and the north atlantic ocean, between Columbia and Guyana. It was slightly more than twice the size of California and interestingly

slides, mudslides, periodic droughts. Some environmental issues are sewage pollution of Lago De Valencia, deforestation soil degradation, urban industrial pollution. It is a threat from mining operations to rainforest.

enough, the coast line is 2,800

KM. tropical, hot, humid and
Pictures of Venezuela

more moderate temperatures in the highlands. Andes mountains, Maracaibb lowlands in northwest, central plains. Natural resources are petroleum, iron and natural gas, gold and diamonds. Natural gas, gold, and diamonds. Natural hazards are subject to floods, rock

ECONOMY IN VENEZUELA
Largely based o the petroleum sector and manufacturing. Petroleum exports 50% of the countries GDP. Venezuela is the 5th largest member of OPEC. Ven has the highest standard

grew 9% due to high gas prices. United states is

Venezuelas most important trading partner.

Venezuela is in the top 4 supplier of oil. Called a repressed economy. Highest inflation rates of 29.1%. There have been series of currency devaluations since Hugo Chavez imposed the

of living in South America. In 2007, economy

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strongest currency controls to prevent capital

flight.

GOVERNMENT IN VENEZUELA
Federal Presedential Republic. It was

Both are heads of state and head of the government. The current leader is Nicolas Maduro. Maduro has contacted President Obama and invited him to join in on talks and aimed at resolving problems between

The Us and Venezuela

governed by a
constitution and the chief executive is president of Venezuela.
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COME VISIT VENEZUELA

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