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Cumaná
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Cumaná (kmänä`), city (1990 pop. 212,432), capital of Sucre state, NE Venezuela, on the Manzanares River near its mouth on the Gulf of Cariaco, an inlet on the Caribbean Sea. Exports include coffee, tobacco, cacao, sugar, fruit, and beans. Founded in 1521 to exploit the pearl fisheries near Margarita island, Cumaná was often raided by the Dutch and British in the 16th and 17th cent. Frequently a victim of earthquakes, the city was severely damaged in 1929. It is thought to be the oldest European outpost on the continent.


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Sucre wants to build near the city of Cumana, on the deep and calm waters of the Gulf of Cariaco.
In the later 1650s, for example, the Dutch engaged a citizen of Cumana (Venezuela), who was interviewed in Amsterdam to determine if he might help in a planned insurrection designed to seize the northern section of the continent (from Venezuela to Brazil).
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