1 / 11

Welcome to Venezuela!

Welcome to Venezuela!. By: Meghana. The Venezuelan Flag:. Fast Facts:. Venezuela is republic. The area is 353,841 sq miles. The official language is Spanish. The currency used is Bolívar Fuerte. About 29 million people live in Venezuela!.

garry
Download Presentation

Welcome to Venezuela!

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Welcome to Venezuela! By: Meghana

  2. The Venezuelan Flag: Fast Facts: • Venezuela is republic. • The area is 353,841 sq miles • The official language is Spanish • The currency used is Bolívar Fuerte • About 29 million people live in Venezuela! • The name “Venezuela” is Spanish for “little Venice” • Caracas is the capital of Venezuela and is the largest city in the country!

  3. The Amazon Angel Falls Canaima National Park Lake Maracaibo

  4. 5 Interesting Facts • Women who win Miss Universe and Miss World are often from Venezuela. • Lake Maracaibo of Venezuela is regarded as the largest lake in South America. • The first European to • discover Venezuela was • Christopher Columbus. • Venezuela was the largest oil exporter in the world in the early twentieth century. • Venezuela means “Little Venice”.

  5. National Holidays • January 1: Año Nuevo/New Year • April 19: Declaration of Independence • May 1: Día de los Trabajadores/Labor Day • June 24: Batalla de Carabobo • July 5: Dia de la Independencia/Independence Day • July 24: Birthday of Simon Bolivar • October 12: Dia de la Raza/Columbus Day • December 25: Navidad/Christmas

  6. 5 Famous People Oscar D'León Hugo Chavez Simon Bolivar Luis Aparicio MajandraDelfino

  7. Climate

  8. Agriculture Corn Rice Sorghum Cane sugar

  9. 10 QUESTIONS • This whole project was on the country Venezuela. • About 29 million people live in Venezuela. • The world’s smallest waterfall is Angel Falls. • A famous person from Venezuela is Oscar Delfino. • There are only 2 main religions in Venezuela. • Sugarcane is made in Venezuela. • Cane sugar is made in Venezuela. • Venezuela means “Grand Venice”, because it is a bigger version of Venice. • The official language of Venezuela is Latin. • The highest temperature in Venezuela was 90 degrees in March.

  10. The End!

More Related