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16 unusual facts about Isla Margarita


2009 flu pandemic in Venezuela

June 17: The health authorities placed an ocean cruiser on quarantine with more than 1.300 persons on board on Isla Margarita, since 3 persons were positive on the A (H1N1) virus exam.

Agriculture in Venezuela

For example in 2008 the government expropriated El Frio, a 63,000 hectare estate in Apure (larger than the tourist island of Isla Margarita), as its owners (reputed to include Nelson Rockefeller) could not demonstrate legal land title.

Amalia Paoli

She was the daughter of Domingo Paoli Marcatentti, born in Corsica, and Amalia Marcano Intriago, who was originally from Isla Margarita in Venezuela.

Austin Hobart Clark

In 1901, Clark organized a scientific expedition to Isla Margarita in Venezuela.

Calliostoma bullisi

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off East Brazil at depths between 28 m and 73 m; in the Caribbean Ocean off Isla Margarita, Venezuela.

Colonial Venezuela

This expedition discovered the so-called "Pearl Islands" of Cubagua and Margarita off the northeastern coast of Venezuela.

Conferry

Conferry (Consolidada de Ferrys C.A.) is a Venezuelan shipping company operating passenger and freight services to the islands of Margarita and Coche.

Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra

Also at that time, while accompanying Jiménez Pérez, he visited Cumaná, Isla Margarita, New Barcelona, the Orinoco River, Trinidad, and Venezuela.

Jose Antonio Llama

The USDOJ believed the men were attempting to assassinate Castro while he would be in Isla Margarita, Venezuela for the Ibero-American Summit.

Juan Damián López de Haro

Gregorio de Castellar y Mantilla, Governor and Captain-General of Cumaná, and Francisco de Santillán y Argote, Governor of Isla Margarita, joined in opposing the decision, which they saw as a violation of the currently accepted property rights, and wanted to continue to collect tithes.

Juan de Eulate

He then became Governor of the Margarita Province, based on Isla Margarita off the coast of what today is Venezuela, from 1630 to 1638 before retiring to Spain.

Lobatus magolecciai

This species is found in the Caribbean Sea along the Isla Margarita, Venezuela, found at depths up to 29 m.

Margarita Province

The Province was named for its most important part, Isla Margarita.

Military career of Simón Bolívar

When the expeditionary force arrived in Venezuela, it found that most of it had been restored to royalist control, save for Margarita Island, which surrendered to it with no blood shed.

Unare River

The other Dutch fort ever to stand on what is now Venezuelan soil (also in the 17th century) stood on the little uninhabited islet La Tortuga, just west of Isla Margarita.

Venezuela Province

Early on, the province was defined in relation to the Venezuelan coastline (with Margarita Province to the north covering the Isla Margarita region).


Playa Puerto Cruz

Playa Puerto Cruz is a roughly 1 km long beach located near Pedro Gonzalez in Isla Margarita, Venezuela.