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Punta Cardón

Coordinates: 11°39′03″N 70°12′56″W / 11.6508°N 70.2156°W / 11.6508; -70.2156
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Punta Cardón
Town
Punta Cardón is located in Venezuela
Punta Cardón
Punta Cardón
Coordinates: 11°39′03″N 70°12′56″W / 11.6508°N 70.2156°W / 11.6508; -70.2156
CountryVenezuela
StateFalcón
MunicipalityCarirubana
Time zoneUTC -4:30
Postal code
4154
ClimateBWh

Punta Cardón is a town and parish in the Carirubana autonomous municipality of Falcón state, Venezuela.

The town was once a poor fishing community on the Gulf of Coro on the northwest coast of Venezuela. Since the mid-1940s the community has become surrounded by the Paraguana- oil-refining complex, which today is run by PDVSA, the state oil company.[1] The Spanish architect José Lino Vaamonde built the Club Manaure in Punta Cardón (1953) for Shell Venezuela.[2]

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  • Canino, Maria Victoria; Stronen, Iselin Asedotter (2015-06-11), "Oil and environmental injustice in Venezuela: An ethnographic study of Punta Cardon", Contested Powers: The Politics of Energy and Development in Latin America, Zed Books Ltd., ISBN 978-1-78360-095-3, retrieved 2018-05-15
  • González Casas, Lorenzo; Vicente Garrido, Henry (2010), Mundos que se desvanecen: el exilio arquitectónico español en Venezuela. (in Spanish), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios Americanistas, retrieved 2018-05-14