WAguamania is a 25,000-square-metre (270,000 sq ft) water park located in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. It is situated inside a public park of the city known locally as "La Vereda del Lago". It is one of only two water parks in Venezuela and the only water park in the west of the country. There are notable views from the park of the surrounding city.
WAngostura Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the Orinoco River at Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. The Spanish word Angostura means "narrows". Built in 1967 at a cost of US$35million, the bridge has a main span of 712 metres. Until the opening of the Second Orinoco crossing 100 km downstream near Ciudad Guayana on 13 November 2006 it was the only bridge across the Orinoco.
WThe Arturo Michelena University is the biggest private university in Valencia, Venezuela. It offers graduate and postgraduate studies in different areas, and has around 20000 students, mostly coming from the central part of the country. The name comes from the Venezuelan artist Arturo Michelena.
WAvenida Bolívar, in English Bolívar Avenue, is an important avenue located in the Libertador Bolivarian Municipality in the west of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. The avenue's construction began on the 25th of July 1945, and it was opened on the 31st of December 1949 as part of the large project "Plan Rotival", which also included monuments like a new Capital building and a mausoleum for Simón Bolívar in the cemetery.
WEstadio Brígido Iriarte is a multi-purpose stadium in Caracas, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Venezuelan Primera División teams Atlético Venezuela and Metropolitanos, as well as second tier league team Estudiantes de Caracas. The stadium currently holds 10,000 people.
WCaracas Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum of modern art located in the Parque Central Complex in Caracas, Venezuela. It was founded on 30 August 1973 by the journalist and art patron Sofía Ímber, also its director from 1973 to her dismissal in the Chavist cultural revolution of 2001. It opened in 1974 and was the first museum in Venezuela to offer a specialist art library, a formal children's and adults' learning area, a special education department for the blind pennislunchd a multimedia arts centre.
WChurch of St. Constantine and St. Helena, located in El Hatillo at the south-east of Caracas. It was donated by the Orthodox Church of Venezuela and the Government of Romania to the Orthodox community living in the capital of Venezuela. The land for its construction was donated by the Mayor. There are only 15 religious temples of its kind in the world and only two of them are outside Romania. It was built by craftsmen from Maramures district in Transylvania, it was assembled without nails or metal objects in the structure and it is adorned with religious neo-Byzantine paintings. The bell tower rises more than 30 meters. All the pieces of wood for ceilings and walls, were brought from Romania, according sacred traditions to avoid similarities with the hardware and martyrdoms of the crucifixion.
WDomo Bolivariano de Barquisimeto, or simply Domo Bolivariano, is an indoor sporting arena that is located in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The arena is named in honor of Simón Bolívar. The seating capacity of the arena is 10,000, and it is mainly used to host basketball games, as well as volleyball, boxing, and handball competitions.
WThe Escuela Nacional de Cine (ENC) is a private educational institution located in Venezuela Caracas Metropolitan District. Founded at the initiative of Bolívar Films as house specializing in cinema studies March 1, 2009.
WEstadio 12 de Febrero is a multi-use stadium in El Vigía, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Atlético El Vigía Fútbol Club. The stadium holds 12,785 people.
WEstadio Agustín Tovar, also known as Estadio La Carolina, is a multi-purpose stadium in Barinas, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and it is the home stadium of Zamora FC. The stadium holds 30,000 people and was completed in 2007.
WEstadio Antonio José de Sucre is a stadium in Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela. It has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. It is the home of Tucanes de Amazonas of the Venezuelan Segunda División.
WThe Estadio General José Antonio Páez is a sports infrastructure stadium in Acarígua, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Portuguesa Fútbol Club the building was built in that place by the booming development of this locality llanera; owes its name to the recognized hero of Venezuelan independence and the first president of Venezuela, Jose Antonio Páez. It is the headquarters of the Portuguese Football Club, currently located in the First Division of Venezuela. Its facilities can hold approximately 18 thousand spectators; in 2007 underwent considerable improvements to be used in the National Plains Sports Games 2007 and was inaugurated in 1973.
WThe Estadio Olímpico General José Antonio Anzoátegui before called Estadio Luis Ramos, is a stadium located in the Venezuelan city of Barcelona, in the state of Anzoátegui. It was opened on December 8, 1965 by the former president of Venezuela, Raúl Leoni.
WEstadio José Bernardo Pérez is a multi-use stadium in Valencia, Venezuela. It opened on October 8, 1955, and holds 15,500 people.
WEstadio Metropolitano is a multi-use stadium in San Cristóbal, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for baseball games. The stadium holds 22,000 people.
WThe Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano de Mérida or Estadio Metropolitano is a soccer stadium located in the city of Mérida in Venezuela.
WStadium Nueva Esparta, also known as Estadio Guatamare, is a stadium in Porlamar, Venezuela. It is primarily used as a baseball park, hosting the Bravos de Margarita's home games. It holds 18,000 people and was opened in 1956.
WEstadio Olímpico Hermanos Ghersi Páez is a multi-use stadium in Maracay, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Aragua Fútbol Club. The stadium holds 14,000 people.
WEstadio Polideportivo de Pueblo Nuevo is a multi-purpose stadium in San Cristóbal, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club. The stadium holds 38,755 people.
WEstadio Rafael Calles Pinto is a multi-use stadium in Guanare, Venezuela. It is mostly used for football matches and is the home stadium of Llaneros de Guanare. The stadium holds 13,000 people.
WForum de Valencia is an indoor sporting arena located in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, Carabobo. The capacity of the arena is 10,000 and is used mostly for basketball and concerts.
WGimnasio Ciudad de La Asunción is an indoor sporting arena located in La Asunción, Venezuela. The capacity of the arena is 8,500 spectators and is used mostly for basketball. It hosts the Guaiqueríes de Margarita of the Venezuelan Basketball League.
WThe Hospital Universitario de Caracas or University Hospital of Caracas is a publicly owned hospital located in the spaces of the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, part of the Central University of Venezuela, located in the Chaguaramos parish of Libertador Municipality in the District Capital of Venezuela and west of Caracas Metropolitan District and the city of Caracas, the north central Venezuela.
WIglesia de San Francisco is a church in Caracas, Venezuela. Dedicated to Francis of Assisi, it was built in 1593 under the design of Antonio Ruiz Ullán as an annex of the Convent of San Francisco. The church is notable as being the situ where Simón Bolívar received the title "El Libertador" (1813). His funeral occurred here in 1842.
WEstadio José Pérez Colmenares is a multi-purpose stadium in Maracay, Venezuela. The stadium was named in honor of first baseman and outfielder José Pérez Colmenares, a member of the National Baseball team that won the Baseball World Cup in its 1941 edition.
WThe La Cabrera Tunnel, also known as the La Cabrera bridge-tunnel, is a tunnel and viaduct in Venezuela which lies within Carabobo State and connects it with Aragua State. It was built in the late 1950s using the New Austrian Tunnelling method. It was the first application by Ladislaus von Rabcewicz of systematic rock bolt and shotcrete support in a highway tunnel.
WLa Chiquinquirá Church is a church in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The feast day of the church is November 18. Annually on this day many thousands of people gather around the church.
WEstadio Luis Aparicio El Grande is a multi-use stadium in Maracaibo, Venezuela. It is currently used mostly for baseball games and serves as the home of Águilas del Zulia. The stadium holds 23,900 people and opened in 1963. It also hosted the 1986 Caribbean Series. It is named after longtime Maracaibo shortstop Luis Aparicio, Sr., the father of Luis Aparicio.
WThe Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure (MAAA) is a not-for-profit art institution in Acarigua, Venezuela. MAAA exhibits local and international contemporary art. The museum was founded in 1987 by Ali Cordero Casal to promote contemporary art, culture and education through exhibitions and public programs. Since its inception, MAAA has organized over 40 exhibitions of both local and international artists. Education is an important facet of MAAA's mission and the museum maintains close relationships with schools in the region through workshops and educational activities.
WThe Museum of Modern Art in Caracas was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling. It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized.
WThe National Experimental University of the Armed Forces is a Venezuelan public university associated with the Venezuelan armed forces. Founded in 1974 by the former president Rafael Caldera as the National Armed Forces Higher Polytechnical Institution, it was renamed by the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in 1999.
WThe Palacio de Eventos de Venezuela is a convention center in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Its infrastructure is constituted by 6 levels that offer wide possibilities for its multifunctional use to any kind of events; and is 0.3 km away from the centre of the Maracaibo. The 7,000-seat center is the largest convention center in Maracaibo, and hosted the Miss Venezuela 2010 pageant.
WPlaza de toros Monumental de Maracaibo is a bull ring in Maracaibo, Venezuela. It is currently used for bull fighting. The stadium holds 15,000 people and was built in 1972.
WPlaza Monumental de toros de Pueblo Nuevo is a Bullring in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, currently used for bull fighting. The stadium can hold up to 15,000 people and was built in 1967.
WPlaza Monumental Román Eduardo Sandia, also known as the Plaza de toros de Mérida, is a bullring in the city of Mérida, Venezuela. It is the second largest venue for large scale cultural and artistic events in the city after the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano and the location for bullfights of the Feria Internacional del Sol.
WCentro Sambil Caracas, located in Caracas, Venezuela, is the sixth largest shopping mall in South America. It was completed in 1998 and has over 500 stores in approximately 3 million square-feet. The mall has five levels: Autopista, Libertador, Acuario, Feria, and Diversión. There are other Sambil malls located in Valencia, Margarita, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisimeto, Paraguaná, Santo Domingo, Curaçao and Madrid.
WSan Carlos Circuit is a motorsport race track located in San Carlos, Venezuela. From 1977 to 1979, it hosted the Venezuelan motorcycle Grand Prix.
WSan Carlos de la Barra Fortress is a seventeenth century star fort protecting Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.
WThe Simón Bolívar International Bridge is a 300-metre-long (980 ft) bridge across the Táchira River on the Venezuela–Colombia border, connecting the city of San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela with the small town of La Parada in Colombia. The first major city in Colombia after the border is Cúcuta.
WThe St. Philip Neri Cathedral Also Los Teques Cathedral It is the main temple of the Catholic Church for its history and location of the city of Los Teques, and headquarters of the Diocese of Los Teques; It is located in the historic center of the city at the Cathedral Parish in the Municipality Guaicaipuro, Miranda state in Venezuela, specifically in front of the renowned Plaza Bolivar in Los Teques.
WThe Teatro Municipal of Caracas is an opera house in Venezuela. It was inaugurated by President Guzmán Blanco in 1881. The theatre was initially named after the president.
WTiféret Israel Synagogue is a Jewish synagogue located in El Recreo, close to Plaza Venezuela in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. It is also the headquarters of the Israelite Association of Venezuela.
WThe Manuel Piar Hydroelectric Power Plant is a stalled hydroelectric development project in the Lower Caroní River Basin of Venezuela. The project, started in 2006, includes the installation of 2,320 megawatts (3,110,000 hp) MW to generate annual average energy of 12,100 gigawatt-hours (44,000 TJ). As of 2019, the project is unfinished.
WUnidad Educativa Juan XXIII is a private, Italo-Venezuelan school, of preschool, primary and secondary education, located in Cabimas, Venezuela.
WThe "Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua" (UBA) is a private institution of higher education in Turmero, Aragua State, Venezuela.
WUniversidad Nueva Esparta is a private university in Caracas. It was founded in 1954 by Juan Bautista Marcano Marcano.
WUniversidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador is the main public university institute, dedicated to the formation of teachers and professors in Venezuela. Its main headquarters is on Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, with centers in other regions, including Aragua, Lara, Miranda, Monagas, and Tachira. The Institute of Professional Improvement of Teachers constitutes part of the structure of the UPEL, which was named in honor of Simón Bolívar.
WThe Center Technological University (UNITEC) was a private university located in Carabobo, Venezuela. Its academic activities began in August 1981 in Guacara. The Center Technological University also had a campus in Valencia.
WThe University of Zulia, is a public university whose main campus is located in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela. LUZ is one of the largest and most important universities of Venezuela.