Theme Week Venezuela – Cumaná

22 May 2018 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Mochima National Park - Playa Blanca © flickr.com - Luigino Bracci/cc-by-2.0

Mochima National Park – Playa Blanca © flickr.com – Luigino Bracci/cc-by-2.0

Cumaná is the capital of Venezuela’s Sucre State. It is located 402 kilometres (250 mi) east of Caracas. Cumaná was one of the first settlements founded by Europeans in mainland America and is the oldest continuously-inhabited, European-established settlement in the continent. Attacks by indigenous peoples meant it had to be refounded several times. The municipality of Sucre, which includes Cumaná, has a population of 420,000. The city, located at the mouth of the Manzanares River on the Caribbean coast in the Northeast coast of Venezuela, is home to one of five campuses of the Universidad de Oriente and a busy maritime port, home of one of the largest tuna fleets in Venezuela. The city is close to Mochima National Park a popular tourist beaches destination amongst Venezuelans.   read more…

The seaside town of Granville in Normandy

27 November 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Beach, Casino and upper town © Mussklprozz

Beach, Casino and upper town © Mussklprozz

Granville is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France. The residents are called Granvillais. Administratively, the island of Chausey is part of the commune of Granville, which includes a small harbour. Granville is situated on the Cotentin Peninsula at the mouth of Bosq and Pointe du Roc (Cap Lihou) which in part closes in the north of the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel.   read more…

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