Geography

Capital: Caracas

Bordered by Columbia to the

west, Guyana to the east,
and Brazil to the south.
The Maracaibo Lowlands in
the northwest surrounded
by the northern mountains.

Land Area: 340,560 sq. mi

Political Science
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History

Federal Republic is the form

of government
Many term of dictatorship
Economic shocks in the late
1900s caused deadly riots

Water Crisis

Total Area: 352,149 sq. mi

Population: 28,047,938
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Discovered by Columbus in
1498

Won independence from

Spain in 1821

Popular president Hugo

Chavez elected in 1999.

Struck oil in 1914

Water costs almost $1 per

gallon

Water is polluted with

sacrificed animals by
followers of Santeria

60 year old treatment

plants

Water budget cut from $250

million to $9.7 million