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Ciudad Guayana is a city in Bolívar state, Venezuela. In 2020 it had a population of 838,705 thousand inhabitants, being the sixth most populous city in Venezuela behind Caracas, Maracaibo, Valencia, Barquisimeto and Maracay, and the largest city in eastern and southeastern Venezuela, in addition to the main center industrial, economic and financial of the region.

It is a planned city based on a concept developed by a team of Venezuelan professionals led by General Rafael Alfonzo Ravard in technical collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, being later executed and concluded by the Corporation Venezolana de Guayana, Puerto Ordaz, was built along the north bank of the Caroní River, where the first residences were settled and at that time the Orinoco Mining Company, later the expansions with the Alta Vista, Unare, Matanzas sectors and Cambalache, San Félix was established on the south side of the Caroní River.

Ciudad Guayana is made up of the merger of the communities of San Félix and Puerto Ordaz, the city located at the mouth of the Caroní River, is a river port connecting the eastern Venezuelan region and the rest of the world, and has residential spaces, commercial, industrial and tourist of great activity, joining the sector of San Félix de Guayana with the other sectors by three bridges that cross the Caroní river, very close to its mouth in the Orinoco river. Located as it is at the confluence of both rivers, it takes full advantage of the beauty of the Caroní waterfalls and rapids, integrating them in a unique way into its urban landscape.

It was conceived as an appropriate scenario for the development of the south of the country, as it responds to the magnitude and importance of the regional resources available: iron ore, wide availability of hydroelectric power, agricultural and forestry potential, gold, diamonds, bauxite and manganese, combined with its location adjacent to a formidable fluvial communication channel: the Orinoco River. The Macagua and Guri hydroelectric plants provide all the commercial electricity generated in Guyana and 72% of national consumption.

The city has a nominal GDP of USD 70.75 billion and a nominal GDP per capita of USD 8,737, which represents a PPP GDP per capita of 15,129 USD, which places it in seventh place in the country, by economic activity.

It is the capital of the Caroní municipality, governed by a mayor and his council. The municipality is divided into 11 parishes, 8 urban: Unare, Universidad and Cachamay on the north side; and Dalla Costa, Simón Bolívar, Vista al Sol, Chirica and Once de Abril in San Félix, in addition to 3 rural parishes: Yocoima, Pozo Verde and the recently acquired 5 de Julio, which borders the Casacoima municipality, in Delta Amacuro state., to which it previously belonged.

History

The first explorations were organized by Diego de Ordaz in 1531, the expedition led by Juan González Sosa discovered an unknown world of jungles and plains on the banks of the fabulous Orinoco River. In 1535 another expedition was commanded by Lieutenant Alfonso de Herrera. It was after the movements of conquest and colonization, when Antonio de Berrío founded Santo Tome de Guayana at the confluence of the Caroní river with the Orinoco on October 9, 1554, in the country of Carapana near the indigenous village of Cachamay, the The city was founded multiple times in different places, due to the continuous attacks of pirates and conquistadors who destroyed it to enter the Orinoco River in search of El Dorado.

In 1618, when it was near Guiana la Vieja, an English expedition sent by Walter Raleigh sacked it and totally destroyed it. In 1764, it was transferred to Angostura, today Ciudad Bolívar, due to the continuous attacks by English and Dutch pirates. The last foundation was carried out in its original location on July 2, 1961 and was named Ciudad Guayana. To the west of the city is the Matanzas Industrial Zone, the urban area of Puerto Ordaz in the center and San Félix to the east.

For the design and planning of the city, the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana requested the participation of the urban studies center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Within the city, the Caroní park that consists of the La Llovizna, Cachamay and Löefling parks, which are a representative sample of the majesty and beauty of the Caroní River, other parks of interest are the La Fundación park and the Paseo Malecón de Saint Felix. For those interested in the Basic Industries of Venezuela, some of these have visiting hours that can be found through their respective Public Relations departments. In the surroundings, less than 100 kilometers away is Ciudad Bolívar, a historical site par excellence of the Bolívar state, on the other side of the river is La Misión del Caroní (Caroní Ruins), the Guayana Castles and forest plantations.

The Puerto Ordaz area was built and planned by the Empresas Orinoco Mining Company and the Corporación Venezolana de Guayana in the mid-20th century XX.

On November 13, 2006, the Orinoquia bridge was inaugurated, the second largest in the country, which facilitates communications between Ciudad Guayana and the opposite bank of the Orinoco River in the states of Anzoátegui and Monagas.

Symbols

Shield

The Shield is surrounded by a blue border with eight stars; divided into two main quarters: The one on the upper left contains a ship with unfurled sails, which represents one of those that carried out the Indian trade in the century XVIII, in the lower part three pineapples of our continent that represents, a fruit discovered and turned into a symbol of tropical America, by image of the Europeans.

The second quarter represents the present and the future. The red tear-shaped triangle means the struggle, the human effort to convert the mineral wealth and use the country's energy and put it to production. The shield crowned on the wavy lines represent two rivers, the Orinoco and the Caroní, the round millstone symbolizes the name of the Father of the Nation, the state and the first widely productive human machine. At the bottom is a yellow ribbon where it identifies the most important dates in the life of Santo Tomé de Guayana.

Geography

Union of the Caroní and Orinoco rivers.

Salto La Llovizna, representative icon of Guayana city.

The city is located at an altitude of 13 meters above sea level at the confluence of the Caroní and Orinoco rivers. It is linked by highway to Ciudad Bolívar and Upata and by highways to the Administrative Region of Guayana. It is also the terminus of the mining railway for the deposits of Cerro Bolívar. The Port of Ciudad Guayana has been reopened due to the reactivation of the Apure-Orinoco fluvial axis.

It is an important center for the National Basic Industry, the unloading of bauxite minerals from Los Pijiguaos, as well as the exports of iron, aluminum and steel are some of the activities that are carried out here. It has several iron ore concentration plants, a steel foundry, a bauxite and alumina processing plant, two aluminum factories, a carbon anode manufacturing plant, a fluorinated products complex, cement production, and various industries. derivatives that benefit from the hydroelectric potential of the Caroní River, with the Simón Bolívar Hydroelectric Power Plant. The union of the two most important rivers in the country, El Caroní and El Orinoco, occurs in this city, creating an area called Caronoco in honor of this confluence. From one of the bridges that connect Puerto Ordaz with San Félix, you can see this union of which the illustrious Arturo Uslar Pietri captured the following phrase:

...is a river of polished black steel and enters as a clean dagger on the muddy side of the brown Orinoco earth monster.

Climate

Average City of Guayana climate parameters
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Temp. max. abs. (°C)	34	36	37	36	37	34	35	33	36	35	36	36	37
Average temperature (°C)	32	32	34	34	33	31	31	31	31	33	33	33	32.3
Average temperature (°C)	25	25	27	28	28	26	29	27	28	28	26	26	26.9
Temp. medium (°C)	22	20	21	22	24	22	23	21	22	21	21	20	21.6
Temp. min. abs. (°C)	19	18	18	19	20	19	19	18	19	18	18	18	18
Total precipitation (mm)	82.2	48.3	56.6	68.7	123.5	230.5	200.4	255.4	120.8	69	73.9	89.8	1419.1
Source: Estaciones Puerto Ordaz RA 1 / Puerto Ordaz; by INAMEH. Data collected for a period of 27 years between 1954 and 1981.

Parishes

Dawn in town.

The municipality of Caroní is made up of 11 parishes: Cachamay, Chirica, Dalla Costa, Once de Abril, Simón Bolívar, Unare, Universidad, Vista al Sol, Pozo Verde, Yocoima and the new parish 5 de Julio, which belonged to the municipality Casacoima, Delta Amacuro state. Poverty in the Caroní municipality is 17.29% and extreme poverty is 5.67%, accounting for 22.86 of the population. The disaggregated poverty data by parish are:

Parish	% of poverty'	'% extreme poverty
1. Cachamay	7.03	0.90
2. Chirica	24,12	6.72
3. Dalla Costa	14,28	2.32
4. Eleven April	22,35	7.33
5. Simón Bolívar	12.11	1.55
6. ♪	14,47	4.89
7. University	4,122	0.59
8. View of the Sun	20,08	5,67
9. Pozo Verde	41,32	31,08
10. Yocoima	54,92	29,90

Geomorphological features

The city is mostly located in plains that do not have many meters of elevation.

Panoramic view of San Felix.

In Ciudad Guayana there are three types of landscapes: Plain, Peniplanic and Lomerío. The topography of the plain landscapes is flat with slopes between 0-4%. The plain landscapes present a severely undulating topography with slopes of 4-16% and the Lomerío landscapes have undulating to strongly undulating topography and are made up of hillock reliefs whose slopes are greater than 8%.

Geology

Recent unconsolidated sedimentary deposits of the Plio-Pleistocene Mesa Formation (sands, silts, and clays) overlying the rocks of the Precambrian Imataca Complex (granitic rocks, feldspathic gneisses, and banded iron formations).

Flora

It is an area that offers a diversity of flora, this diversity could be explained by the great stability of the Guayana Massif throughout the geological eras, which has only been affected by climatic changes, particularly during periods of severe droughts.

Wildlife

The importance of fauna lies in its value as a source of food. It constitutes an element of considerable importance since it intervenes directly in the food cycle. The following have been registered: tapir, báquiro, capybara, Orinoco crocodile, spectacled caiman, green anaconda, pink dolphin, deer, cunaguaro, porcupine, macaw, hummingbirds, cristofué, herons, zapoara, aimara, rattlesnake, green rooster snake, terecay, among others.

Watersheds

The Rainbow Panoramic. Parque La Llovizna

The hydrography is made up of 7 main basins, highlighting the rivers: Orinoco, Cuyuní, Caroní, Caura, Aro, Cuchivero, Parguaza and Paragua. The hydrographic system is divided into two aspects: the one integrated by the rivers that flow into the Orinoco and those that carry their waters to the Cuyuní river. It concentrates the largest national water reserve (approximately 3/4 parts of the state are crossed by watercourses). Bolívar state, thanks to its rivers, has great hydroelectric potential (75% of the gross wealth of the country).

Culture

Cultural groups

Caroní Ecomuseum.

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Caroní Ecomuseum

The Caroní Ecomuseum is a cultural building created in 1998, it develops exhibition, educational, cultural and entertainment activities, from a scientific-cultural perspective, to publicize the set of assets that make up the heritage of the river basin Caroní and its hydroelectric development, including fauna, flora, hydrology and energy potential. In its facilities, which are an example of integration between art and architecture, works by masters Carlos Cruz-Diez and Alejandro Otero are exhibited.

Formerly it had a cafeteria and a documentation center. It is located within the "Antonio José de Sucre" hydroelectric complex, formerly known as "23 de Enero", between Pedro Palacios Herrera and Leopoldo Sucre Figarella avenues.

Historic Sites

Castles of Guyana

30 km from San Félix on the road to Piacoa in the Delta Amacuro State, are Los Castillos de Guayana, buildings built on rocky hills on the right bank of the Orinoco River during colonial times to protect Santo Tomé de Guayana from the attacks of the pirates and adventurers who feverishly sought El Dorado, the most fabulous of the inventions of our natives that would drive the feverish minds of the conquerors crazy.

Castillo de San Francisco de Asís (Fort Villapol) the first of the castles, was built on the banks of the Orinoco in the XVII century between the years 1678 and 1684, according to Gerónimo Martínez-Mendoza, by order of Governor Cap. Tiburcio de Axpe y Zúñiga, in the narrowest part of the Orinoco after Angostura, on the land where the patronage of San Francisco was, established by Don Antonio de Berrío, the first governor of Guayana and founder of Santo Tomé de Guayana.

El Padrastro or San Diego Castle (Fort Campo Elías), years later and to reinforce the defenses of the first castle, the El Padrastro or San Diego Castle was built -construction started in 1747- so called because it was located on a hillock or stepfather, from where the Castillo de San Francisco, which it protects, is dominated. These castles were restored in 1897 by the then President of Venezuela, Joaquín Crespo, who renamed them Fort Campo Elías to the Castillo de San Diego and Fuerte Villapol to the Castillo de San Francisco, in honor of these heroes who, despite being born in Spain, They fought in the Republican ranks during the War of Independence.

Ruins of the Misiones del Caroní

They are called the Ruins of the Mission de la Purísima Concepción del Caroni, or better known as "Las Misiones del Caroni". These ruins served as the rectory house of the Catalan Capuchins, and it was declared a National Historic Monument on August 2, 1960. It exemplifies a magnificent building belonging to colonial architecture, finally built with stones, bricks, tiles, wood and mortar, which gives it it conferred a structure strong enough to be preserved through the centuries.

A bell tower, the chapel and a beautiful mural made up of images representing the sun and the moon, clouds and angels, as well as silhouettes, which presumably represent the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Francis of Assisi, are components that are They observe inside this rectangular space that obeys the structure of the main nave of the temple or church. It is provided with a parking lot that connects to the temple by means of a paved road, and connects to the shore of the Macagua reservoir.

Places

Water Square.

Monument Square of the CVG.

Water Square

It is a civic center made up of outdoor spaces, recreation areas, a small amphitheater and a set of fountains where water flows by simple gravity from the Macagua II dam. From this place you have a beautiful panoramic view of the 23 de Enero - Macagua II Hydroelectric Complex.

Iron Square

It was founded by the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana and inaugurated on the XXV anniversary of the C.V.G. on 12/29/1985. Which is made up of two iron monitors brought from Cerro San Isidro. It is located in the commercial area of Alta Vista.

CVG Monument Square

It has an area of 2.2 hectares, with 8,000 m² of walkways and 6,500 m of green areas, which constitutes a new meeting space for the Guianas. Inaugurated in 2004 by the C. V. G. Which was built to pay permanent tribute to those who have dedicated their lives to consolidate the development of the region.

Gastronomy

Ciudad Guayana is a city just a few years old, so its gastronomy is modern and simplistic, it can be said that it is very cross-cultural.

Economic activity

Orinokia Mall.

Ciudad Guayana is the headquarters of basic companies that form the C.V.G. (Corporación Venezolana de Guayana) such as Alcasa, Venalum, Bauxilum, Carbonorca (producers of primary aluminum, alumina and carbon anodes for the aluminum industry, respectively), Ferrominera (extraction, processing and commercialization of iron). It is also the headquarters of the Siderúrgica del Orinoco (Sidor). Also located in this sector of the city is the main electricity producer in Venezuela, Corpoelec-Edelca, the Guayana and Caroní banks, and Productos Forestales de Oriente C.A. (Proforca), likewise, the city has various industrial zones such as Unare I, II and III, and Los Pinos, with companies oriented to food processing, metal-mechanics and manufacturing.

Tocoma Dam

The Tocoma dam officially Manuel Piar Hydroelectric Plant is a Venezuelan hydroelectric power station located on the lower Caroní River, in Bolívar state. It is under construction and is the latest hydroelectric development project in the lower Caroní basin. The project includes the installation of 2,300 MW to generate an average annual energy of 12,100 GWh. Ten 230 MW Kaplan generating units, manufactured by the Argentine company IMPSA, are expected to start operating between 2012 and 2014.

Caruachi Dam

Caruachi dam.

The Caruachi Dam is a water reservoir located more than 60 kilometers downstream of the Guri Reservoir, and 25 kilometers upstream of the Macagua Reservoir, in Venezuela. It was inaugurated in 2006, and covers an area of 250 km². It contributes 12% of the national electricity demand. It is also known as the Francisco de Miranda Hydroelectric Power Plant.

CVG Edelca, faced with the high environmental impact of the construction of the third hydroelectric dam in Caroní, worked together with the Ministry of the Environment to rescue the flora, fauna and valuable archaeological treasures found in the region and that today are permanently exhibited in the Ecomuseo del Caroní.

The 12 generators in the machine room of the Caruachi Dam are covered with reproductions of baskets from the Yekuana ethnic group. Each turbine represents the myths of the tribe covering a space of 16 meters in diameter to cover the entire turbine. While the walls display large reproductions of 13 indigenous petroglyphs from different regions of Guyana and Venezuela.

Macagua Dam

The Macagua dam, also known as the Antonio José de Sucre Hydroelectric Power Plant, is part of the Bolívar State electricity generating park. It is made up of three stages: Macagua I, which has 6 small units; Macagua II, which has 12 units; and the newer Macagua III, which has 2 units. The complex generates 2190 MW. It is 322 m long, and has 12 radial gates 22 m wide and 15.6 m high.

Macagua is the only dam in the world that is located inside a city. It can be admired leaving Puerto Ordaz, towards San Félix. Inside is the Plaza del Agua and the Ecomuseo del Caroní. One of the greatest attractions of the place is a bridge that rises over the spillway, through which you can travel by car.

Macagua reservoir.

Ethnography

Due to its geographical location and the significant amount of industrial activities that are carried out in its surroundings, it attracted thousands of immigrants since the different activities that are carried out in the surroundings began to be developed (Mining, Hydroelectricity, Oil Extraction, Timber Exploitation, among others.), attracted thousands of immigrants from different regions of the planet, who settled in the place due to the high development that this area had begun to present.

With the development of mining activity and the number of companies that were established in the area, the population increased significantly, due to the great income opportunity that existed in the area and its high development for many years.

The city presents different ethnic groups and maintains a multidiverse population in which Asian, North American, and European roots play fundamental roles, which moved to the region as a reason to enter the city's nascent industry.

In its population there are groups of different nationalities such as; Russians, Americans, Arabs, Brazilians, Colombians, Spanish, Italians, British, to this added populations of indigenous origin that contributed significantly to the miscegenation of the region, emerging changes in it and becoming more diverse over the years..

Its population is divided into four different groups, which are presented as follows;

White: 47.6 %
Mestizos: 44.2 %
Amerindians: 4.3 %
Black/Afrodescendants: 0.9 %
Other: 3.0 %

Sports

C. T. E. Cachamay

Seeing the need to build a place where the sport of the region could be celebrated and developed in an adequate way, the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana began in 1988 the construction of the Cachamay sports center. The original name of the complex was Gino Scarigella, named after the referee of Italian descent who lost his life whistling an amateur soccer match on his grounds, years before the first stone was laid.

In 1990, the sports arena was officially inaugurated, with a capacity of 14,000 people. It was the regional press that called it Polideportivo Cachamay in its first days of founding, due to its proximity to Parque Cachamay, the word permeating the general community in such a way that it currently does not know or does not remember its original name.

The stadium was chosen as a sub-venue for the 2007 Copa América Venezuela games, which forced expansion and remodeling work to be carried out. Due to this, the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana handed over the land of the stadium to the Bolívar State Government, through a 25-year loan.

The company in charge of remodeling the Cachamay Sports Center was the Mexican construction company ICA, responsible for having built more than 20 stadiums in Mexico and Latin America, among which the Azteca Stadium stands out. The works began in mid-April 2006.

After its expansion and complete remodeling, the stadium was reopened on June 22, 2007, under the name of Centro Total de Entretenimiento Cachamay.

La Ceiba Stadium

La Ceiba Stadium in San Felix, Guayana City.

The La Ceiba stadium, inaugurated on November 1, 1998 with the Caribes-Águilas Game, is a sports infrastructure suitable for playing baseball located on Avenida Centurión, which despite currently not having an accepted professional team by the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League, it is the largest baseball stadium in the country and the second largest in Latin America, after the Latino in Havana, Cuba, and has an approximate capacity of 30,000 spectators.

For many years it was abandoned, but the interest in being admitted to the league has made the regional government recover its spaces, it has 8 lighting towers, it has a police module, yellow and green chairs were placed, recovered public services, and improved access and grass.

Teams

Ciudad Guayana has several professional soccer teams that participate in the different divisions of professional soccer, the most important being Mineros de Guayana, the one that has obtained the most national and international achievements and one of the best in Venezuela and LALA F.C. which both teams that play in the First Division of Venezuela, Chicó de Guayana F.C. and the AIFI Foundation, which both teams are active in the Second Division of Venezuela, all based in the majestic Cachamay Stadium. In basketball playing in the LPB is the Gigantes de Guayana team and in Volleyball playing in the LVV is the Huracanes de Bolívar team, whose home is the Hermanas González Gymnasium, with a capacity of 2600 spectators.

The city is the venue and finish line of the International Nautical Rally Our rivers are navigable, the most important nationally and the longest in the world held in fresh water.

Tourism

Orinoquia Bridge.

Inside the city are the La Llovizna, Pehr Loefling and Cachamay parks, with their natural waterfalls. Other local attractions are the Caroní Ecomuseum, the Macagua II Dam, probably the only case of a natural waterfall diversion dam within a city. The fracture of the relief of this natural waterfall presents two natural waterfalls: the Cachamay waterfall next to the city itself, with a width of about 800 m although low, and the La Llovizna waterfall, with several higher and higher waterfalls. great flow, although somewhat shorter. In this last area, located on the right bank of the Caroní (near the old Caroní Mission, founded by the Catalan Capuchins), the Macagua I hydroelectric power station was built, diverting part of the river's flow and taking advantage of the natural unevenness of the relief. This dam was considerably expanded with a larger and higher reservoir, which gave rise to a larger hydroelectric power station, next to the one that already existed.

In the city, from the Angosturita bridge and in the port of San Félix, you can see the union of the Orinoco and Caroní rivers; the differentiated color of the waters of both rivers presents the natural spectacle of the struggle between two currents that first coexist, then intertwine and finally mix.

Although Ciudad Guayana, because it is far from the sea, does not have marine beaches, it does have beaches on the edge of the Macagua reservoir on the banks of the Caroní river. Among them, there is a camp called Playa Bonita, with tourist facilities.

Taking Puerto Ordaz as a starting point, you can visit the Orinoco delta, the Canaima National Park, the Guri reservoir, the colonial castles on the banks of the Orinoco river and many other points of great interest. The Guayana Castles are located on the right bank of the Orinoco, about 35 km downstream from San Félix, although already in the territory of the Delta Amacuro state.

Universities

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

Ciudad Guayana is home to universities such as:

Universidad de Oriente- (UDO) Unidad Experimental Puerto Ordaz - San Félix (UEPO)
Bolivarian University of Workers “Jesus Rivero” - (UBT)
Bolivarian University of Venezuela - (UBV)
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - Guayana (UCAB)
Bicentennial University of Aragua (UBA)
National Polytechnic Experimental University (UNEXPO)
Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana (UNEG)
National Polytechnic University of the Bolivarian Armed Forces (UNEFA)
Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (UGMA)

From University Institutes of Technology:

Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales (San Félix)
I.U.T.I. Rodolfo Loero Arismendi (IUTIRLA)
I.U.T. Antonio José de Sucre (IUTAJS)
I.U.T. Pedro Emilio Coll (IUTPEC)

From Polytechnic University Institutes

Instituto Universitario Politécnico Santiago Mariño (IUPSM)

And regional centers of study houses such as:

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB)
University of the East (UDO)
Universidad Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (UGMA)
Bicentennial University of Aragua (UBA)

Technical Schools

Escuela Técnica Industrial Fundación LA SALLE
Escuela Técnica Industrial Cecilio Acosta
Escuela Técnica Industrial Raúl Leoni
Bicentennial Commercial Technical School
Escuela Técnica Simón Rodríguez
Escuela Técnica Andrés Bello
Education and Technical School Jesus Worker
Escuela Técnica Comercial Manuel Jara Colmenares

Roads and transportation

Orinokia Bridge.

Ciudad Guayana has excellent fluvial communication with the rest of the world. It communicates with the north of Brazil through 700 km of excellent highway. The iron ore is transported from the mines to Ciudad Guayana by a railway network of approximately 200 km, the bauxite is transported in barges -gabarras- through the Orinoco River. In the City there is also a superficial mass transportation system BRT that receives the name of BTR "Batalla de San Félix".

Air transportation

Manuel Piar SVPR International Airport is the main air terminal in the south of the country. It is managed by the Bolivar State Autonomous Airport Service (SAAR).

Urbanism

Aerial view of the city and the geographical space in which it is located, bordered by the rivers Caroní and Orinoco.

Its main avenues are:

Av Guayana: is the main avenue of the city, which crosses it from east to west.
Av Atlántico: is located south of the city and is one of the main road arteries of the city, being the second longest Avenue in the Puerto Ordaz sector.
Av Paseo Caroni: is one of the main avenues of the city.
Av las Américas: it communicates to the Altavista sector with the Castillito sector.
Av Express 01: It runs north of the city in the industrial zone massacres and communicates it with the area of Puerto Ordaz and San Félix.
Main Av de Castillito.
Av Norte-sur 01:com to the industrial area Matanzas with the airport, Altavista and the south of the City.
Av Fuerzas Armadas: communicating to the Atlantic coming with the industrial zone massacres.
North Av south 6: joins the Atlantic Avenue with the end of the Caroni and the industrial area Matanzas.
Av liberaor: is one of the main avenues of San Felix.

The fastest growing sector of the City is in the Puerto Ordaz sector, mainly in the west zone and in Altavista.