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CIUDAD BOLf See also:VAR, an inland See also:city and See also:river See also:port of See also:Venezuela, See also:capital of the See also:state of See also:Bolivar, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Orinoco river, 240 M. above its mouth. Pop. (1891) 11,686. It stands upon a small See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill about 187 ft. above See also:sea-level, and faces the river where it narrows to a width of less than See also:half a mile. The city is largely built upon the hillside. It is the seat of the bishopric of Guayana (founded in 1790), and is the commercial centre of the See also:great Orinoco See also:basin. Among its noteworthy edifices are the See also:cathedral, federal See also:college, See also:theatre, masonic See also:temple, See also:market, See also:custom-See also:house, and See also:hospital. The mean temperature is 83°. The city has a public See also:water-See also:supply, a See also:tramway See also:line, See also:telephone service, subfluvial See also:cable communication with Soledad near the mouth of the Orinoco, where connexion is made with the See also:national See also:land lines, and See also:regular steamship communication with the See also:lower and upper Orinoco. Previous to the revolution of 190I-3 Ciudad Bolivar ranked See also:fourth among the Venezuelan custom-houses, but the restrictions placed upon transit See also:trade through See also:West See also:Indian ports have made her a dependency of the La Guaira custom-house to a large extent. The See also:principal exports from this region include See also:cattle, horses, mules, See also:tobacco, cacao, See also:rubber, tonka beans, See also:bitters, hides, See also:timber and many valuable See also:forest products. The See also:town was founded by See also:Mendoza in 1764 as See also:San Tomas de la Nueva Guayana, but its location at this particular point on the river gave to it the popular name of Angostura, the See also:Spanish See also:term for " narrows." This name was used until 1849, when that of the Venezuelan liberator was bestowed upon it. Ciudad Bolivar played an important See also:part in the struggle for See also:independence and was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the headquarters of the revolution. The town suffered severely in the struggle for its See also:possession, and the See also:political disorders which followed greatly retarded its growth.
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