Porlamar

Porlamar

Infobox City
official_name = Porlamar
nicknames = Villa del Espíritu Santo (English:House of the Saint's spirit)Pueblo de La Mar (English:Village by the Sea)
website =




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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_type2 = Counties
subdivision_name = Venezuela
subdivision_name1 = Nueva Esparta
subdivision_name2 = Mariño
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Orlando Avila Guerra
area_magnitude =
area_total_sq_mi =
area_total_km2 =
population_as_of = 2005
population_total = 87120
population_urban = 100000
population_density_sq_mi =
population_density_km2 =
elevation_m = 10
elevation_ft = 32
latd = 10
latm = 57
lats =
latNS = N
longd = 63
longm = 51
longs =
longEW = W
website = [http://maneiro-nuevaesparta.gob.ve/ Municipality of Mariño]
footnotes =

Porlamar is the largest city on Isla Margarita, Nueva Esparta State in Venezuela. It was founded on the southeast coast in 1536, less than 40 years after Christopher Columbus first sailed through. Porlamar was a quiet fishing village until the arrival of air travel. Since then, it has become the central hub of the island with shops, restaurants and nightlife supported mostly by European and Venezuelan tourism.

Porlamar holds about one-third of Margarita Island's population and it is also the island's center of commerce. Since it was granted free-port status in 1973, its boutique-lined avenues have been crowded with tourists. In the early 1990s the economic downfall of the oilprice hit also Porlamar. Other free ports in Venezuela offer now the same goods as the free port of Margarita Island.

Transportation

Del Caribe International General Santiago Marino Airport (PMV) in Porlamar has direct flights and regular service to Europe, Canada, and the United States and is located 20km southwest of the city center.

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Twin cities

*flagicon|Mexico Cancun, Mexico
*flagicon|Colombia Cartagena, Colombia
*flagicon|USA Miami, USA

External links

* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/19/TRGDIH9AG81.DTL San Francisco Chronicle article]

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