{"id":17650,"date":"2017-05-14T05:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T10:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=17650"},"modified":"2022-06-16T18:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:06:02","slug":"lago-maracaibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/lago-maracaibo\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders of Lago de Maracaibo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Strange boundaries came to light as I examined Lago de Maracaibo &#8212; Lake Maracaibo &#8212; in northwestern Venezuela. See if you agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/graphics\/blog\/zulia.gif\" alt=\"Lago de Maracaibo\"\/><figcaption>Lago de Maracaibo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give proper credit for this map although I couldn&#8217;t find a citation. I found it at some random website using Google Images. The little snippet I took should count as &#8220;fair use&#8221; in any case so it didn&#8217;t concern me too much. Anyway, the state of Zulia encircled much of the lake. Trujillo included a small if respectable border adjoining the lake as well on the eastern side. M\u00e9rida proved to be the exception. It featured a little tendril, a narrow sipping straw that ran up to the lake from the southeast while creating a Zulia exclave in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some portion of the Twelve Mile Circle audience may wonder if I plan to delve into the political situation in Venezuela. No, this is not a politics blog. I&#8217;ll stick purely with geography, thank you. Let&#8217;s move forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State of M\u00e9rida<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Palmarito\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nitGZBQ-42k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An explanation for the narrow M\u00e9rida strip onto the lake appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fes.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPalmarito_(M%C3%A9rida)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spanish version of Wikipedia<\/a>. Assuming a nominal level of accuracy, the corridor apparently came courtesy of Zulia, a gift to M\u00e9rida in 1904. M\u00e9rida did not have an outlet to the sea before that time. In fact, geographically much of M\u00e9rida fell within the Western Andean Region. This included the Venezuelan national highpoint, Pico Bol\u00edvar (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Xc9jUTVzh885qXxK7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) at 4,978 metres (16,332 feet).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, M\u00e9rida got its pathway to the lake, and thereby an extension to the Gulf of Venezuela, the Caribbean Sea and the rest of the outside world. It didn&#8217;t do much with it though. Little development happened along the waterfront. Only the tiny fishing village of Palmarito (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/YE8AQACUPBfpXnWj9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) graced M\u00e9rida&#8217;s shoreline. Palmarito also differed considerably from the rest of M\u00e9rida. Certainly no mountains existed there. If anything, it resembled something closer to the islands of the Caribbean. The population differed too, descended primarily from Africans brought as slaves to work plantations centuries earlier during the Colonial period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, a decent road ran along the corridor and connected Palmarito to the Pan American Highway, only 10 kilometres away. Theoretically it could become a major port someday. The century old gift from Zulia should be considered within that light. It was a nice gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State of Zulia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caja Seca Estado Zulia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SrrC2rg4Vgo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Zulia&#8217;s gift to M\u00e9rida created an odd situation for itself. It cleaved Municipio (municipality) Sucre into two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citypopulation.de\/en\/venezuela\/zulia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly equally-sized portions<\/a>, one attached to the rest of Zulia and the other an exclave. The larger portion of Sucre&#8217;s population fell within the exclave, with fully half of its residents (26,000 people) within the single town of Caja Seca (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/s9haKhCPRhw45zVE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). However, it didn&#8217;t seem like residents of either portion would feel too disconnected from each other. Caja Seca fell right on the border with M\u00e9rida and the Pan American Highway ran directly through it. The rest of Sucre municipality could be reached easily enough after a short jaunt down a paved highway across the neck of the M\u00e9rida corridor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_car&amp;route=9.1404%2C-71.0829%3B9.0868%2C-71.1200#map=13\/9.1135\/-71.1030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). No problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caja Seca translated from Spanish into English as &#8220;Dry Box.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t figure out why. Nonetheless, when twinned with the neighboring town of Nueva Bolivia (across the border in M\u00e9rida), it formed an economic catalyst for the whole southern end of the lake. The area <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nueva_Bolivia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grew rapidly<\/a> in recent years. Nueva Bolivia began in 1928 as nothing more than a cluster of houses along a road used to move goods between lake and land. Over time, and especially after construction of the highway, it gained ongoing prominence and became the capital of Municipio Tulio Febres-Cordero in 1988. Caja Seca got a later start although it reached and perhaps eclipsed Nueva Bolivia recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postscript<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a narrow channel of the Torondoy River separated Caja Seca in Zulia from Nueva Bolivia in M\u00e9rida. In actuality, the two melded together into a single conglomerate of close to a hundred thousand residents when combined with other towns nearby. Once an agricultural center, it began to shift rapidly towards a service-based economy in recent years. Ironically, as time passed, access to the highway seemed more important to M\u00e9rida than access to the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strange boundaries came to light as I examined Lago de Maracaibo &#8212; Lake Maracaibo &#8212; in northwestern Venezuela. See if you agree. I&#8217;d like to give proper credit for this map although I couldn&#8217;t find a citation. I found it at some random website using Google Images. 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