Cabimas

Cabimas is a Venezuelan city located in the state of Zulia, on the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo. It is the capital of the municipality of the same name. It is positioned as the second largest and most populous city in the state and thirteenth in the country. It has always been a pillar of the Venezuelan economy due to its oil production, extracting medium/heavy crude from wells irrigated throughout the city and part of the lake. It is also known for being a small city.

Toponymy

There is a hypothesis that the name Cabimas was given by the friars to the indigenous people of that territory. They were ignorant of the language and culture of the aborigines, and gave the tribes names of local trees, such as Cabimas, Onotos and Cocinas. It is not certain what they called themselves. Cabima is an indigenous word of Caribbean origin, which in Venezuela designates a tree known as copaiba or cabima (Copaifera officinalis Harms and Pittier, variety laxa Xena and Arroyo), from whose trunk an oil is extracted that has medicinal uses, and is known as copaiba balsam tree of Cabimas, oil stick, or stick oil.

History

On the history of its foundation, to date there is nothing fully defined by the region's historians. However, to date it is acceptable that its history dates back to the Aborigines who originally inhabited this region on the eastern shore of the lake. The area has been inhabited for at least 2,000 years, according to findings made in the Balcón de Lola, located in the Santa Rita municipality. The indigenous people were hunter-gatherers and lived in semi-permanent camps. To determine if these settlements were contemporaneous with each other or if they were successive occupations, investigations such as the comparison of ceramics and utensils would be required. The aborigines that inhabited the region were from the Caquetíos tribe, who lived on stilt houses and extracted the resin from the Cabimas tree (Copaifera officinalis), which had medicinal properties. They also made use of the oil that flowed from the earth, which they called mene. The Caquetíos were a tribe of the Arawak culture, and they called Lake Maracaibo Coquivacoa. Petroglyphs have been found in the Germán Ríos Linares Parish, remains of settlements in the Arístides Calvani Parish, and indigenous burials in an area known as La Misión.^{[citation required]}

In the old settlement of Cabimas, a group of Capuchin friars founded, in 1758, a short-lived town called Mission San Ambrosio de Punta de Piedra. From this town, located in the sector currently known as "La Misión", archaeological remains have remained, but no ruins. This consists of the memories of the visit of the bishop of Venezuela Mariano Martí to the town in 1771. Later the town developed as a fishing port on the shores of Lake Maracaibo, with less than a thousand inhabitants.^{[citation required]}

At the beginning of the XX century, oil was discovered in the area, with the drilling of the Santa Bárbara well (R2) in 1917 by the company Venezuelan Oil Concessions (VOC). However, it was the "Los Barrosos 2" (R4) well drilled in 1922 —in which 100,000 barrels of oil were released per day— that drew world attention to the population, causing a true re-foundation of Cabimas in 1931, when the creation of oil fields began for the oil extraction concessions ceded to American and Dutch companies by the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez.^{[citation required]}

Punta de Piedras Mission Collection

Indians buried themselves in clay pots with their knees on their chests. They also made vessels with figures of animals and anthropomorphic images. They practiced basketry and cotton spinning. They practiced slash-and-burn agriculture, growing corn, cassava, and tobacco. Also, they were dedicated to hunting and gathering: rabbits, tapirs, báquiros (wild boars), limpets and fishing for local species, such as curbina, catfish, bocachico, and crustaceans such as blue crabs, shrimp and small clams (guacuco)..

Palafitos.

The indigenous people of Cabimas mixed or emigrated, and their culture disappeared. The last stilt houses remained until the 1980s in front of the area known as Puerto Azul, located to the north of the city. Of them, only one remains, located in the Las Tierritas sector, next to the coast guard pier, behind Bolívar square, and it was declared a historical heritage of the Cabimas municipality in 2008.^{[citation required]}

Future research could shed light on the culture and way of life of these indigenous people. Some archaeological vestiges found can be seen in the Archaeological Museum of Cabimas, located in the house of culture of this city. Questions still remain to be resolved, such as whether the settlements were temporary or permanent, whether there were indigenous communication routes, in addition to the lacustrine. Research on the first settlers of Cabimas began in 1990.^{[citation required]}

Some researchers argue that Simón Bolívar was near this city in a place known as El Balcón de Lola, an old house located in the neighboring town of Santa Rita. During the restoration work and archaeological excavations (2008), it was determined that the house was built at the end of the 19th century, so Simón Bolívar could not have spent the night there, as one theory said. However, indigenous pottery and tools from the 1st century were found under the ground. There is also a private museum in the municipality of Lagunillas, where there are also indigenous artifacts. The chroniclers do not make direct references to the indigenous tribes in the Cabimas area; however, it is marked on a map of indigenous peoples from 1579.^{[citation needed]}

Sectors

Map of the city of Cabimas. Only the main streets and those that serve as a limit to the sectors are shown. There are many other secondary streets.

The city of Cabimas encompasses seven of the nine parishes of the Cabimas municipality. These parishes form the urban perimeter of the city. The three to the west: Ambrosio, Carmen Herrera and La Rosa are fully urbanized and border Lake Maracaibo. It is believed that, thanks to its development, the Punta Gorda parish will soon be added to the city. The four eastern ones: Germán Ríos Linares, San Benito, Rómulo Betancourt and Jorge Hernández are still being urbanized, and are incorporating new sectors to the city perimeter. The sectors are distributed as follows:

Panoramic Cabimas to the west, sector Buena Vista.

Population and infrastructure

The development and transformation of the city were conditioned by the extraction of oil. The main avenues (F, G, H, J, K, L, 31,32,33 and 34, among others) were named following a coordinate system developed by the Shell oil company to locate its wells.

Cabimas was populated with people from different regions of Venezuela, and especially with immigrants from the eastern and Andean states and from Falcón State. A sector founded by Falconians received the name of "Corito". Other sectors were named after oil activities, such as roads named after wells (R5, R10) or infrastructure works (Gasplant).

The city was organized into Oil Fields (Las 40s, Las 50s, Concordia, Hollywood, Campo Blanco, Campo Staff —later, named Las Palmas—, Las Cúpulas), around which immigrants settled, for which reason the city grew disorderly. Also, it was populated by foreign immigrants: Syrians, Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese and Greeks, who shaped and occupy most of the local commerce.^{[citation needed]}

The first union in Venezuela

In addition to having always been a pillar of the Venezuelan economy due to its oil production, Cabimas' most outstanding contribution to the country's history was the founding of the first union in Venezuela: the Union of Oil Workers and Employees (SOEP), that still works in the same headquarters since 1936.^{[citation required]}

Geography

Climate

The climate is very hot, with temperatures of more than 30 °C throughout the year and with the presence of high humidity. The combustion of natural gas from oil wells produces large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO₂), which causes a greenhouse effect, making Cabimas a hotter place than Maracaibo. The climate is dry most of the year, and during the rainiest season —between August and December— heavy showers fall.

The greenhouse effect makes cloudy days hotter than sunny ones, since CO₂ does not let heat escape into the atmosphere. The average temperature is 28.5 °C.

Average climatic parameters of Cabimas, Venezuela
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Temp. max. abs. (°C)	36.1	34.9	39.5	43.0	44.0	40.4	42.6	41.3	40.0	38.1	36.4	36.3	44.0
Average temperature (°C)	31.1	31.8	33.1	35.3	35.0	34.2	35.1	34.9	33.6	32.6	32.4	32.5	33.5
Average temperature (°C)	26.4	26.8	28.1	30.4	30.0	29.5	30.1	29.9	28.3	27.7	27.4	26.9	28.5
Temp. medium (°C)	21.7	21.8	24.1	24.8	25.1	24.9	25.2	24.9	24.6	24.1	22.5	21.9	23.8
Total precipitation (mm)	5	3	5	30	66	56	25	61	87	120	71	18	547
Days of rain (≥ 1 mm)	1	0.5	1	5	9	9	3	6	10	13	9.5	4	71
Hours of sun	270	253	269	301	290	292	288	270	275	239	243	259	3249
Source No. 1: The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. June 27, 2015
Source No. 2: INAMEH: Report of weather station, Zulia.

Relief

It is mainly flat, with some notable depressions that were the site of ancient lagoons. These lagoons were drained, to make way for urbanizations such as Los Laureles, the most inhabited, Guavina, Las 40s and the “Bajaíta del Tuerto Teófilo”. A sector of Guavina still retains the old name of "El Ciénego".^{[citation required]}

The soil of the city is made up of alluvial deposits and very few rocks, which makes the roads erode and give way easily during the rainy season, producing potholes or "holes"; although sometimes it happens, due to the great drainage problems that the city presents

Economy

The main economic activity is the oil industry, since the discovery of the "Barroso 2" (R4), in 1922, which was certainly the well that made Venezuela known as a great reference of oil potential in the world. As of the date of this article, the La Rosa Field, on land, and La Salina, on the lake, are mature fields producing medium/heavy crude from the Miocene La Rosa Formation. The La Rosa field became, in 2006, the Petrocabimas strategic association, with 60% of the shares for the state company PDVSA and 40% for the national operator Suelopetrol. The latter managed the field under concession since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, the agreement was managed by the German company Preussag Energie.^{[citation required]}

Cabimas does not have infrastructure for the handling and processing of natural gas, so the gas produced by its wells has been wasted for decades, incinerated with venting equipment. There is a project to build a cryogenic complex near Ulé.^{[citation required]}

Commerce is another activity in Cabimas, and there are department stores founded and run by immigrants from Mediterranean Europe, the Middle East and Colombia. There is fishing activity, but it has been affected by the growth of the so-called duckweed (Lemna sp.) in Lake Maracaibo, environmental contamination and insecurity.^{[quote required]}

There are some factories of items such as plastic bags and others. In the municipality, there is a very well-prepared industrial zone, but it is not yet in operation. In rural areas, such as the Arístides Calvani Parish, agriculture of fruit trees and livestock is carried out. Cabimas is the headquarters of the East Lake Cattlemen's Association (AGEL).^{[citation required]}

The Municipality of Cabimas is also characterized by having a large number of establishments for the sale of auto parts.^{[citation required]}

It also has drinking water bottling plants and numerous springs, located in the Aristides Calvani parish; specifically, in Curazaito and La Mesa.

It also has one of the highest rates of identity theft scammers, known as "The Wig"; This activity boomed due to the strong crisis affecting the region, partly due to the decline of the oil sector and trade.

Health sector

Publics

With more than 50 years of service, there is the General Hospital of Cabimas, named to honor Dr. Adolfo D'Empaire, located on the shores of the lake, on Avenida Andrés Bello de Ambrosio. It serves the eastern shore of the lake, part of Falcón, part of Lara and part of Trujillo.^{[citation required]}

Private

• Cabimas Medical Center, S.A. (founded in 1956).
• El Rosario Private Hospital (Carretera K, between the Las Cabillas and La Gloria sectors).
• Centro Clínico Cabimas (calle Carabobo, Delicia Nuevas).
• Centro de Especialidades Odontológica de Cabimas (CEOCA) (Campo Staff, next to the Colegio Mundo de los Niños).
• Instituto Médico Odontológico "Dr. Alfonso Reinoso" (Campo Staff).
• GORICA Clinic (Campo Staff).
• Campo Elías Clinic.

Places of interest

• Union of Workers and Petroleum Employees (SOEP) of Cabimas: in El Rosario Street; founded in 1936 by Jorge Hernández, was the first union of Venezuela.
• Plaza El Barroso: In the Intercommunal Avenue, Sector Gasplant, between the roads K and L. It was the well that showed the potential of the field La Rosa, burst in December 1922, with 100,000 barrels of oil per day. At the date of this article, it is inactive, and has a mechanical pumping equipment (balancin) as a monument.
• Plaza El León and the Cross: Located in the Ambrosio Sector, just a few metres from the Colegio Virgen del Rosario, it is one of the preferred squares among the Cabinians, thanks to its varied flora.
• The Bohíos de Noah, located in the distributor "El Rosario", popularly known as The entrance, are one of the places preferred by the inhabitants of the municipality, due to the refreshing wind blowing over the lake.
• Costa Mall: On the Intercommunal Avenue, Sector Punta Gorda, is the shopping and entertainment center of families on the eastern coast of the lake.^{[chuckles]required]}

Religious buildings

• Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, on the corner of Independence Avenue and Miranda Street. There is the image of the Virgin of the Rosary, patron of Cabimas, and also the image of Saint Benedict of Palermo, which marches in procession on 27 December and 6 January of all years. The cathedral is home to the Diocese of Cabimas, and is the oldest church in the city.^{[chuckles]required]}

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary of Cabimas.

• Church of St John the Baptist, main avenue, Sector La Rosa Vieja, founded in 1953.
• GILGAL Evangelical Church, Av. 31 Sector Bello Monte, Founded in April 1975 by the Second Apostle Herrera
• Church of San Martín de Porres, street Equality, sector Ambrosio.
• Church of San José, avenue Cumaná, Sector Campo América.
• Our Lady of the Valley Virgin of the Valley, 32 Avenue, Sector New Cabimas.
• Heart Church of Jesus. Av. Intercommunal sector Las Cabillas.
• Saint Peter Church. Av. Principal Las Delicias, with Callejón San Benito, sector Delicias Nuevas, founded in 2005.
• San Francisco de Asís Church, located in the Francisco de Miranda neighborhood, founded in 1988 by the priest Angel Andueza.
• Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Av. H next to UNERMB.
• Our Lady of Chiquinquirá Chapel. Av. Intercommunal with R10 street.
• Santa Ana Chapel, Av. 34, San José Street.
• Divine Shepherd Chapel, Sector R-5.
• San Judas Tadeo Chapel, Churuguara Urbanization.
• Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Church, Calle San Mateo Barrio el Carmen.
• Church Mary Immaculate Conception. CARRETERA H, Next to the Instituto Mons. de talavera. founded more than 50 years ago by the sisters LAURITAS.
• Anglican Church Charismatic (Bethabara Cathedral), Calle Federación, 18 October, Tierra Negra sector.
• Evangelical Christian Church of the Saviour, Av. Main Cabimas with Vereda del Lago Street, next to the Staff Field. It was the First Evangelical Church of Cabimas, Founded on March 13, 1938.
• Reformed Catholic Church of Venezuela "San Patricio", Av. 42, sector Santa Rosa.
• Christian Church "Jesus Christ is the King" Av. Intercomunal Sector Bello Monte, Antiguo Local Excalibur.
• Evangelical Christian Church "Adonai" Calle urdaneta sector El Carmen 5 Bocas.
• Berea International Church. 40th Street 8th Old Supermarket.
• Church The Good News. Road K Calle Providencia, Sector Five Bocas.
• Christian Church The Renew of God. Av. CARABO urbanization at 40 (known as street of the hardware store the STUDIANTE) former club carabobo.
• Church of the Living God "Columna Invaluate You of Truth." Road H, Sector H7, Entrance to Maranatha College.
• Community of Faith "The Palace of the King" Cabimas, Av. 32 with Calle San Félix N.o 45 Front to Camino Nuevo.
• Christian Church "New International Life". Calle curazaito sector R-10.
• Christian Community Church "CASA DE GOD". Carretera «H» with Calle Bomboná, in front of the Urb. The Laureles. Founded on 6 November 1988. I'll bless those who bless you. Gn:12-3.
• Christian Church Jesus Eternal Rock.
• Christian Community Church "Justice, Peace and Gozo". Calle 24 de Junio, Sector 26 de Julio.
• Centro Cristiano Cabimas Tiempos de Gloria. av 34 new old club 5 brothers.
• Congregation The Righteous of the Nations (Hebrew Root Students of our Faith): Located in the sector the Delights, St. Felix Street, a few meters ahead of the "Laguna Azul" swimming pool.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, located in its three directions: 1) Road H, next to the Commercial Center Borjas. 2) Road H opposite the Hotel Buena Vista and 3) Av. 32 sector La Cuchilla del Niño.
• Source of Life Church, Av. 32, next to the bakery at 4 A, Lucero sector.
• Church House of Peace Families Under her Presence. Av. 32 Sector Barlovento Calle José Antonio Páez next to Vida 101.7.
• Christian Confraternity New Jerusalem Cabimas, street the Rosary, Central Helmet.

Parks, squares, walks

Evolution of the Plaza Bolívar de Cabimas:

• Temple Square. Cabimas had his first public square in 1818, when Bishop Rafael Lasso de la Vega approved the creation of the ecclesiastical parish, and ordered and supervised the construction of the town and church in La Rosa as the first center of Cabimas. The founding bishop was formed in our first urbanist by drawing the grid of nine blocks of one hundred rods in painting each and wide streets, with church and square in the center. After the destruction of this first center in 1822 by the realistic troops of Morales, and the extension of the population to the north with the disappearance of La Misión, occurred the move from the center of Cabimas to Punta Icotea, where it is today.

The town was rebuilt there from 1924 and the space of the square was reestablished in front of the church, which received the names of Plaza del Templo, Plaza de la Iglesia or Plaza del Rosario. This meeting space came to occupy such an important place in the popular imagination that from then on the name "La Plaza" was extended to the entire hamlet that formed around the church in this second center. The plaza was a wide embankment in the shape of a trapezoid attached to the Camino Real (later Avenida Principal) that communicated with La Rosa and Punta Gorda to the south. The square was also connected to a street (Avenida del Muelle) that led to the port on the coast. For a hundred years the wide trapeze of La Plaza was the main and perhaps the only public square in Cabimas.

• Plaza Juan Crisóstomo Gómez. Around 1925 a Caraqueño civilian head named Julio Campbell inaugurated a new square dedicated to the memory of the ill-fated brother of dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. Unlike the Temple Square, it was conceived as an urban park, as a contribution to the public ornate by the presence of shaded trees and ornamental plants cultivated inside it. For this purpose houses and land were expropriated on a corner, on the right, from the Avenue of the Pier with the Main, at the northwest corner of the Temple Square.

It had the shape of a golden rectangle, more elongated towards the lake, with a white marble bust on a cement pedestal located in the center, on the confluence of three roads: two diagonal and one horizontal with respect to the Avenue Major. It had seats (benches) of reinforced concrete and electric light. This second square came to be popularly known as Plaza "Juancho" Gómez, "El Parque" or simply as "La Placita", to differentiate it from the other one, the one with the temple; it also became a symbol of the tyranny of the gomecista authorities at the command of the transnational oil companies. It lasted ten years, from 1925 to 1935.

• Bolivar Square. On December 21, 1935, the cabimeros took very early the spaces of the two public squares, with the intention of deposing the Gomecist authorities who refused to leave the Civil Headquarters after the death of the dictator. Also very early the gomecists placed a platoon of twenty-five armed men at the head of the Chief and as snipers to contain the demonstration. The crowd gathered in Plaza Juancho Gómez, in the highest challenge to the constituted power and its repressive police forces, destroyed what until then represented the symbol of corruption and tyranny, the white bust of Juancho Gómez. At the same time they placed a painting of the Libertador on the pedestal and from that moment on that space was sealed as the new Plaza Bolivar. The Gomecists in reprisal and following the orders of the oil transnationals to dissolve the demonstration with a curfew from eight o'clock at night, massacred the defenseless population, leaving a balance of thirty-seven dead (including an eleven-year-old) and more than one hundred wounded, before fleeing cowardly.

On February 20 of the following year, the bronze bust of the Liberator was inaugurated, made by Villalobos y Compañía at a cost of two thousand bolivars, with a special act of the Municipal Council of the Bolívar District. The enrichment of the ornamentation of this plaza-park is especially due to Eduardo Smilinsky, who was president of the Cabimas Communal Board in 1941. Plaza Bolívar was remodeled in the 1960s during the administration of Germán Ríos Linares as president of the Municipal Council, with new mosaic floors, planters, a platform for Sunday retreats and even an aquarium. The 1936 bust was also moved to Puerto Escondido and a new bronze bust made at the Industrial Technical School was placed. This square was demolished in 1976 to make way for the construction of the new Parque Bolívar, but the trees and the original polygon from 1925 in the shape of a golden rectangle were preserved.

• Worker's Square. In 1953, with the erection of an obelisk between Plaza Bolivar and the Prefecture, the Plaza del Obrero was inaugurated. The obelisk was erected as a monument to the fallen worker, for the dead in labor accidents in oil companies. This square was a species of redoma for the vehicle passage around the obelisk, which was demolished in 1958 after the fall of the dictatorship of Pérez Jiménez.
• Bolivar Park. It was announced as part of the Cabimas Plan, a plan for the entire East Coast of the Lake, and within the framework of the so-called Urban Renewal of the 60s and 70s, during the first government of Rafael Caldera. Since 1973, in the first government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, it began with the expropriation of houses and commercial buildings for the expansion of Bolivar Square. The merchants were transferred to the new Civic Center in Punta Icotea. First they demolished the Pasaje Sorocaima, the Municipal Market and the Popular Eater, then the houses and commercial premises and finally the Plaza Bolívar. He spent several years in detention until the construction began on 1 July 1976.

The project of the architect Aquiles Asprino, based on structures in the shape of golden rectangles, incorporated into this new public space a children's and youth public library next to the original polygon preserved from the old Plaza Bolívar, a soda fountain, an open auditorium in the form of a band shell, illuminated fountains and a new bronze statue of the Liberator on a pedestal. It was inaugurated with the presence of the President of the Republic on November 18, 1978 and with an exhibition by the painter Omar Patiño called "Cabimas Petroleum Company", a tribute to the popular characters of the central area. Bolívar Park was remodeled during the government of Luis Herrera Campins. The acoustic shell was closed to turn it into a municipal theater, the soda fountain was also closed to turn it into an art gallery and it was connected with a coastal boulevard to the Civic Center in Punta Icotea. It was registered in the I Census of the Cultural Heritage of the Nation in 2004 and declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 2005. Currently the local Mayor's Office announces the execution of a new project for the Restitution of Parque Bolívar, the work of the renowned Architect and Plastic Artist of Cabimas Enrique Colina.

Plaza Bolívar was partially reopened in 2011, with a new monument to the liberator, lighting, flags and benches.

• Distributor El Rosario. Union between Av. Pedro Lucas Urribarrí del municipio Santa Rita y La Avenida Intercomunal del municipio Cabimas y la Av. Andrés Bello. It has walks and has become a place for public events (concerts, fairs, dances, etc.).
• New John Dealer. Union between Av. Miraflores, Av. Las Cabillas, J Road, Av. Cumarebo, Av. Lagoven, and other streets of Concordia and Campo Blanco. It has the monument to the oil worker work of the local sculptor Lucidio González in 1995, which presents 2 workers of 5 meters high tightening a valve.
• Plaza Ali Primera. Street flowers sector Concordia.
• Plaza El León and the Cross. Avenida Andrés Bello, sector Ambrosio. Remodeled in 2007.
• Plaza el Mirador. Avenida Andrés Bello, sector El Golfito, opposite the Adolfo D'Empaire hospital. Next to the Plaza Los Chimbángueles.
• Plaza General Rafael Urdaneta. Avenida Chile, sector Las 50s.
• Plaza La Cruz. Av. 31 with Calle Bolivia, Sector Los Médanos.
• Plaza Las 40s. Between streets 1 and 2 of the 40s with Carabobo Street.
• Plaza Los Chimbángeles. Avenida Andrés Bello, El Golfito sector, has a monument to San Benito de Palermo.
• Miraflores Square. Calle Carabobo, between road H and Av. Cumaná, sector Miraflores.
• Plaza Delicias Old. Road H with Av. Intercommunal. Built in 2007.
• Plaza Cruz de Mayo. Av. Intercommunal. Corito sector.
• Plaza Juan Crisóstomo Falcón. Calle Las Flores. Black Earth Quarter.
• Plaza El Estudiante. Colombia Street. Sector Ambrosio

Education

Student enrollment in the Cabimas municipality was located at 69,206 students, of which 13,279 correspond to the initial level, 29,914 to primary, 22,717 to secondary, 2,735 to adult education and 561 to special education, distributed in 178 schools, of which 48 correspond to the initial level, 66 to primary, 44 to secondary, 13 to adult education and 7 to special education. Approximately, according to the Educational Zone.

Universities

• Universidad del Zulia Núcleo Costa Oriental del Lago.
• Universidad Nacional Experimental Rafael María Baralt (UNERMB).
• Instituto Universitario Tecnológico de Cabimas (IUTC, now Polytechnic).
• Instituto Universitario Politécnico Santiago Mariño.
• Colegio Universitario Monseñor de Talavera.
• University Institute of Technology Readic UNIR.
• Instituto Universitario Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso. Av. Principal Delicias, sector Delicias Nuevas.
• Polytechnic Santiago Mariño.

Public high schools in the city

• E. T. R. A. “Technical School Pedro José Hernández” Av. Carabobo behind the Venoil sports complex. Sector Ambrosio,Urbanization «Las 50».
• E. T. I. Escuela Técnica Industrial «Juan Ignacio Valbuena» Escuela Técnica Industrial Ubicada en la Av. Andrés Bello, Sector Punta Icotea.
• E. T. C.R. "Liceo Hermágoras Chávez".

Located on Calle 14, Urbanización "Las 40", founded in 1946, at the headquarters of the Manuel Méndez Basic School, on Av. Andrés Bello in front of the E.T.I. It moved to its current headquarters in 1962. Between 1955 and 1973, it functioned as a middle school. Between 1973 and 1988, the diversified cycle in accounting, secretarial and marketing was implemented. Between 1988 and 1993, it functioned as a commercial elementary school for grades 7-9. Between 1993 and 2006, it functioned as a diversified cycle, and was called "Liceo Hermágoras Chávez" (as between 1955 and 1988), with mentions in sciences, humanities, secretarial, accounting, marketing and office techniques. As of the date of this article, it is called “E.T.C.R. Hermágoras Chávez”, and refers to the currently adopted educational model.

In the same venue, there is the Alejandro Fuenmayor night high school and the "Hermágoras Chávez" University Village, attached to the Sucre Mission.

• Liceo Dr. Jesus Separrún.
• Liceo Bolivariano Jorge Rodríguez.
• Liceo Bolivariano "Alfredo Jahn".
• Liceo Victor Capó.
• Liceo Julia Añez Gabaldón.
• U.E Liceo Bolivariano "Aristides Urdaneta".
• Liceo Bolivarian Gran Mariscal de Antonio José de Sucre.
• Liceo Bolivarian Manuel Belloso, Urb los Laureles.

Private high schools in the city

• U.E. Colegio Mundo de los Niños, whose name was replaced by Isabel Maldonado Blanco (Urbanización Las Palmas).
• U.E. Mystical Rose (main avenue of delicacies).
• U.E. Coquivacoa (main avenue of the urb. Good view).
• U.E. Santa Marta (Carretera K sector glory).
• U.E. Colegio Virgen del Rosario (Avenida Andrés bello).
• U.E. Private Dra. Flor Romero (Concordia).
• U.E. Yoly Teresa Murzi (Ambrosio).
• U.E. Esteban Herrera.
• U.E. César Rengifo.
• U.E. Vicente Rojas.
• U.E. Esteban Herrera College.
• U.E. Adventist Libertador.
• U.E. My Guardian Angel.
• U.E. Juan XXIII.
• U.E. Yunaira Manzano.
• U.E. Emerio Lunar González.
• U.E. Eloy Palacios.
• U.E. Jesus Hannibal Alfonzo.
• U.E. Lord Jesus Christ.
• U.E. Andrés Eloy Blanco, belonging to the PDVSA company.
• U.E. Private «Master Cristóbal Ramon Velásquez II».
• U.E. Dilcia Alejandrina Moreno de Bosso.
• U.E. Armando Suárez Malavé (Avenida Andrés Bello).
• U.E. Pedro Julio Maninat, a member of the PDVSA company.
• U.E. Professor Heberto Quintero (formerly called "The Domes"), belonging to the PDVSA company.

Schools

• U.E.P. COLEGIO Virgen del Rosario
• E.B.E. Solomon García Sierra Sector Monte Claro with Calles Libertad y Carretera «L».
• E.B.E. Monsignor Guillermo Briñez.
• E.B.E. Manuel María Padrón.
• E.B.E. Andrés Bello.
• E.P.B. "Bompland". Founded in 1936 it is the oldest school in Cabimas, currently in Calle Carabobo, Las 40s.
• U.E. “San Patricio”.
• E.B. «Electo de Jesús Piña».
• E.B.N “Rafael María Baralt”.
• E.P.B «General Rafael Urdaneta».
• Beautiful Monte.
• U.E. John F. Kennedy.
• E.B.N «Francisco Lazo Martí».
• U.E. “Manuel Méndez”. Av. Andrés Bello. In front of the ETI Juan Ignacio Valbuena. Founded in 1958.
• E.B.N “Los Laureles”.
• E.B.N « Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde».
• E.N. "CABIMAS".
• E.P.B “San José”.
• U.E. “Ramón Hernández”.
• E.B.N «Dr. Ramón Reinoso Núñez».
• E.P.B «Francisco de Miranda».
• U.E. “San Vitaliano”.
• U.E. “Juan Félix Sánchez”.
• E.S.A. "Víctor Lino Gómez".
• E.P. "Stanislao Davalillo".
• U.E. “Dilcia Alejandrina Moreno de Bosso”.
• U.E. “Mystic Rosa Maria” Delights.
• U.E. “Jesus the Messiah” Av. Oriental with road "L" Sector the Lucero.
• U.E. “Pedro Julio Maninat”. White field.
• E.P.B “Alida Ojeda de Romero” Corito.
• U.E. “Andrés Eloy Blanco”.
• E.B “R5”.
• U.E.P. John XXIII.
• E.B.B. José Ángel Lamas. Barrio Monte Claro.
• U.E.P Esteban Herrera

Gastronomy

Cabimas is known for its arepas, called “arepas cabimeras”, they are roasted arepas that are then fried, placed cut into squares at the bottom of the plate where they are served and ingredients such as slices of cheese and ham such as base, shredded meat or chicken, meat in pieces, pork, shrimp, according to taste, vegetables such as lettuce, avocado and tomato, a hard-boiled egg cut into four, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, and lastly, grated hard white cheese on top and pieces of pig's snout, popularly known as "head"; according to the taste of the client. This is truly a delicious typical cabimero dish, highly desired and unmissable by some cabimeros who, living far away, yearn for them and taste them every time they set foot on their beloved soil.

In Cabimas you can also find Italian, Chinese and Arabic food restaurants, as well as fast food. Mandocas is also a typical food from Cabimas, coconut pea soup as well.

Zulian Bagpipe Ensembles

• Barrio Obrero de Cabimas.
• Great Coquivacoa.
• The Old Time Gaita
• The Verduguitos de Cabimas

Sponsoral festivals

Rosary Fair

Held on October 7 of each year, with the election of a queen, live concerts, a procession of the Virgen del Rosario, an exhibition by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Cabimas (EXPOCAICOC), mechanical attractions, civil bands and parades. Previously known as the festival of the return to Cabimas, since 1980 it has been called the Rosario Fair.

The devotion to the Virgen del Rosario was brought by Mrs. Juana Villazmil, who in 1829 donated the church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, which was the first church in Cabimas. In 1840 this church was elevated to a parish and in 1965 to a cathedral with the creation of the Diocese of Cabimas and the ordination of its first bishop.

Virgen del Rosario Patrona de Cabimas.

Feast of Saint Benedict of Palermo

The origin of the festivity and worship of San Benito can be traced back to the blowout of Barrosos No. II, since once the blowout occurred between December 14 and 22, the roofs of the neighboring houses that were made of palm, they were saturated with hydrocarbon and it was feared that a spark would generate a tragedy and the efforts of the oilmen to place a head to control the well had been unsuccessful, it is said that one of the foremen requested permission to dance the saint in front of the well so that this to stop sprouting, due to the failure of the previous attempts, permission was finally given and it happened that before 15 minutes, the well had collapsed, closing the flow and allowing the placement of the head, with which it was established from that date the festivity of San Benito, at the end of the XX century and with the demographic growth of the city the festivity was changed in date and divided into two dates.

San Benito de Palermo is one of the few black saints of the Catholic saints celebrated in Cabimas with 2 processions, one from the cathedral to the Mission stadium along Andrés Bello avenue, and another from the cathedral along Independencia street and the Main Avenue of the Rose, to the Parish Church of the Rose, on December 27 and January 6 of each year. A procession on each date, each year the date of each one is rotated.

Flags of some vassal societies of San Benito de Cabimas.

The procession is accompanied by people dancing, music from Chimbángeles drums, Blue Flags, Maracas and Whistles, there are several groups of professional Chimbángeles and they all go out on those days. The procession involves 300,000 people, the largest being in Zulia (from San Benito, which is also celebrated in Tasajeras, Ciudad Ojeda; Puerto Escondido, Santa Rita municipality; Bobures and Gibraltar to cite examples). It is one of the most numerous and deep-rooted parties in the entire city and is the most numerous than the other fairs throughout the country and the world.

Museums, cultural centers, libraries

• Casa de la Cultura de Cabimas. Rosario Street with Rotaria Street, next to a UNERMB headquarters. There works the municipal public library and the archaeological museum, with traces of indigenous cultures, the colonial era and the beginnings of the oil era. It is also a school of dance, theatre, civil band and literary center (where the society of writers of Cabimas meets). The "Núcleo Cabimas" belonging to the National Orchestra System also operates in the House of Culture, where music classes are taught to children and young people who share their experiences in the context of the symphonic orchestra.
• Pedro Oporto School of Plastic Arts. Next to the house of culture, under the direction of the Plastic Artist Rincón, classes of Painting and Sculpture are given.
• Casa Museo Margarita Soto. Avenida Andrés Bello, sector Punta Icotea. It was the residence of the Partera y Pintora Margarita Soto, remembered in the song of Gran Coquivacoa Punta Icotea, some of his works are displayed.
• Archaeological Museum of Cabimas. Calle Rosario, in front of Automotriz Cabimas. It is located at the headquarters of the Municipal Directorate of Culture.
• Fundación Casa de los Niños. Behind the Chair, Carmen Herrera parish, Av. Pier, Bolivar Street, next to Cantv, opposite the sale of spare. Where they give class of drawing and art, calligraphy, dance and dance plains, chess club José Raúl Capablanca, escuelita, group of gaita where they teach drum, furruco, piano, four, private classes: mathematics, English, geography, etc., where there are works and much more. Director: José Ruiz.

Media

Television

• TV COL. It was a Cabinian TV channel that worked within the Intercable signal, until its transmission closure.
• OMEGAVISION CANAL 40 UHF. Cultural and Christian cutting channel in open signal, located in Sector 26 of July.

Radio stations

• Supreme 93.1 FM - Road L, with Av. 32
• Xtrema 98.9 FM - Road H. Centro Comercial Borjas.
• Radio Libertad 620 AM. - Cabimas Center, opposite the Cathedral of Cabimas.
• Favorites 97.9 FM - Av. Andrés Bello, in front of Manuel Méndez school, next to the Colegio Virgen del Rosario.
• Fiesta 101.1 FM - Sector Ambrosio.
• Union Radio 90.5 FM - CC Galerías La Fuente.
• Alfa 99.9 FM - World Light Complex, July 26.
• Costa 105.5 FM - Av. Miraflores, 50 metres from the National Guard Detachment.
• Exitosa 92.7 FM - Av. 32, Sector Campo Lindo.
• BARALT 92.1 FM - A. Intercomunal, sector Bello Monte, Quinta La Ghirlandina, head office of UNERMB.
• Very good 106.3 - main av, at the European Hotel.
• Life 101.7 FM Sector Barlovento next to the Church House of Peace
• Gilgal Stereo 102.7 Fm Barrio 12 de Octubre Av 31 Sector Bello Monte, Hot corner, church headquarters Evangelical Pentecostal Gilgal
• Copaiba 104.7 FM - Sector Bello Monte, Barrio 12 de Octubre, Calle Zulia.
• LB 88.9fm radial station located in the parish the pink sector the mountain.
• Voice of Life 96.5 Fm - Calle Cumana with Av. Miraflores
• Radio Extra - Emisora Online

Press

PANORAMA, THE REGIONAL AND THE TRUTH.

Digital press

• Newscol
• COL

Cabins in the culture

• Mene. (1936). Ramon Díaz Sánchez. Novel whose plot is developed in Cabimas.
• Memories of a Cabimero (1994) Eudomario Castillo Clavel. About the testimony of a family of the firstborn from Maracaibo who populated what we know today as Cabimas.

Sports

• Tigres Cabimas Rugby Football Club is the rugby team of the city of Cabimas which has gradually been improving since 2008 debuted in the national league as a favorite team after having won teams like Maracaibo and Trujillanos among others. Silver Cup Winner “Lake Battle” 2006. The Tigres de Cabimas team in 2009 managed to classify the second round of Venezuela's national league for the first time, showing the potential of these young people. Boys who with dedication and dedication in the field have managed to put the name of Cabimas on the top, being the second team of Zulia to classify a second round and remaining Sub-Campeons of the Rugby Venezuelan Championship in 2012, 2013 and 2017.
• Project Caciques Cabimas Rugby Football Club This new project that wants to promote the club is born in view of the massive assistance that the national games of rugby have had in the region, of the need to create spaces for many young people who have not felt involved in the cultural and sporting development of the city, which helps to develop the sense of belonging that we often forget. The “CACIQUES” project is made up of more than 30 free-age participants and we hope that this figure will continue to increase, this team has allowed to begin to spread the sport within the educational institutions of the municipality Cabimas so we also call on all young people or adults who wish to participate in the growth of sport in their region to approach the facilities of the La Salina stadium from Monday to Friday from 4:30 pmp. m. and the institutions that make part of this great team that make up the CACIQUES. Caciques Cabimas Rugby Football Club, supported by players and coaches of Tigres Cabimas.
• The field football team LIDEVIES, F.C., founded on August 20, 1987, in the neighborhood Delicias Viejas, by Levy Darío Villegas. The team has won eight municipal championships and stalks. Native Cabimas players have been members: José Montilla, José Gamboa, Carlos Torrealba. Jimmy Torrealba, Eliemil Ramírez, Jhoadry Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Pérez, Miguel Vivas, José Linarez, José Meléndez, Iver Marcanos, José Talavera, Leonel Borjas, among others in the municipality and Zulia state.
• Women's Soccer Team CABIMAS FC, who debut for the first time in professional football in the Women's League of Venezuela "II Copa Harina Pan" 2012.

The team is made up of young students from different houses of study and of different ages, residents of the Cabimas and Maracaibo municipalities. The youngsters train at the «Br. Julio García» Humanistic Nucleus of the University of Zulia (LUZ), as well as in the Venoil de Cabimas stadium. The trainings are in charge of the DT. from the Marbelys Mora team and from prof. Rodolfo Pérez coach of LUZ.

• The city was the headquarters of the former team Petroleros de Cabimas in the Venezuelan League of Professional Baseball in which they participated in 4 seasons (1991-95), its headquarters was the municipal stadium Victor Davalillo, located in the sector at 40s, currently the franchise is occupied by the team Bravos de Margarita.

Main sports facilities

• Baseball Stadium Victor Davalillo. Chile Street. Sector 40s.
• Nide Baseball Stadium of Birds. Sector El Golfito.
• Baseball Stadium Little League LUZ Cabimas. Av. University.
• David Romero Softball Stadium. Av. Carabobo. Sector Miraflores.
• Concordia Stadium. Av. Miraflores. Sector Concordia.
• Stadium The Dome. Sector Las Cúpulas.
• Venoil sports complex. Chile Street. Sector Ambrosio Headquarters of the Tigers of Cabimas.
• Baseball Stadium and Softball Eugenio «Pelón» Salazar Urb Los Laureles Sec 5.
• Baseball Stadium Little San Benito Leagues. Av. Andrés Bello. Sector La Misión.
• Baseball Stages Little Leagues The Rose. Av. Principal La Rosa.

Featured Characters

Hernán Alemán Venezuelan politician and Deputy of the National Assembly until his death.

Mayors

External Links

• Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category Cabimas.