El Tigre is a city of Anzoategui, a state located east of Venezuela's capital city of Caracas. Located in what is called the "Guanipa Mesa", a river (Tigre) runs across the city. The average temperature is 79°F, all year around, and the annual average rainfall is 1,200mm. One nearby tourist destination is the Chimire Cliffs .
8-537: El Tigre also is in full conurbation with the city of San Jose de Guanipa also known as El Tigrito , capital of the Guanipa Municipality whose population according to data from the CNE is 84,526 inhabitants. Both cities are basically one, whose population would be 291,472 inhabitants. Since the appointment of Orinoco Belt as one of the largest reserves of oil in the world, El Tigre has become one of
16-477: A boomtown . The name "Oficina" (Office) was derived from the telegraph office in El Tigrito. Until the oil discovery, the area had been sparsely populated. By 1940 a road and an oil pipeline had been constructed to connect El Tigre with Puerto La Cruz. By 1946, 512 wells had been drilled, and the region had produced 127 million barrels of oil. The nearby oil company camp San Tomé was built near El Tigre as
24-580: The 1930s a large field of light crude oil was discovered near El Tigrito by the Mene Grande Oil Company (MGO), a subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corporation . The Oficina No. 1 well, a wildcat well begun in 1933 and completed in 1937, established the highly productive Oficina Formation. The oil discovery led to the founding of El Tigre on February 23, 1933 when Mene Grande established their offices in Campo Oficina. El Tigre quickly became
32-462: The main camp for Mene Grande. The Simón Rodríguez Municipality, according to the 2011 Venezuelan census, has a population of 194,858 inhabitants (went up from 155,178 in 2000). This amounts to 12.4% of Anzoátegui's population. About the territorial extension of the municipality in which the city is located, it is 702 km2 and delimited by the following territories: Northeast: borders the municipalities Pedro Maria Freites and Guanipa. South: bordering
40-547: The most important cities in Venezuela because it is very near or on the edge of this oil belt in Anzoategui state. Thus, El Tigre currently shows an increase in the establishment of companies of services to the oil industry that is constantly growing and have also been presented innumerable construction projects for new shopping malls, business buildings or towers and other works for the significant activation of tourism. In
48-405: The municipality Francisco de Miranda. East: borders the municipality Guanipa. West: bordering the municipality Francisco de Miranda. Southeast: municipalities bordering Guanipa and Independencia. The climate is of savannah and temperatures ranging between 68 °F (20 degrees C) and 96.8 °F (37 degrees C), with an average of 80.6 °F (27 degrees C) approximately. La Voz de EL Tigre it
56-482: The votes. San Jose de Guanipa San José de Guanipa ( Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ xoˈse ðe ɣwaˈnipa] ), also known as El Tigrito , is a city in the state of Anzoátegui , Venezuela . It is the capital of Guanipa Municipality . Officially founded in 1910, it was previously a settlement of the Kali'na people . El Tigrito lies between the larger town El Tigre and the oil camp of San Tomé . Like
64-578: Was the first radio station in amplitude modulated (AM) installed in the city, by Don Carlos Poleo, January 9, 1948. With the development of the frequency modulation (FM) are many radio stations that have been installed, among the most representative. El Tigre is the shire town of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality in Anzoátegui. The mayor of the Simón Rodríguez Municipality is Ernesto Raydan, elected in 2017 with 51.95% of
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