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Ciudad Bolivar

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Ciudad Bolívar 

a city in northeastern Venezuela. Capital of the state of Bolívar. Population, 109,600 (1970). Ciudad Bolívar is a port on the Orinoco River, which is navigable for oceangoing vessels and is used for the export of iron ore. A highway junction and an important commercial center, the city has sawmills, woodworking enterprises, enterprises of the food-processing and leather and footwear industries, and slaughterhouses. The Cerro Bolívar iron-ore deposit is located south of Ciudad Bolívar. The city was founded in 1764.



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Bolivar appointed Siegert surgeon general of the military hospital in Angostura ("narrow place"), a port town on the Orinoco River that served for a time as the revolution's headquarters and was renamed Ciudad Bolivar years later.
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