El Callao, Venezuela
El Callao is a town of Venezuela. It is the capital of El Callao Municipality of the Bolívar State. The gold mine at El Callao started in 1871, was for a time one of the richest in the world, and the goldfields as a whole saw over a million ounces exported between 1860 and 1883. The gold mining was dominated by immigrants from the British Isles and the British West Indies, giving an appearance of almost creating an English colony on Venezuelan territory.
El Callao, Venezuela | |
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| Coordinates: 7.3463°N 61.8271°W | |
| Time zone | UTC−4 (VET) |
The real number of inhabitants may be five times higher than the official one, which is around 25.000. This is due to gold mines in the area.[1]
References
- Venezuela: la distorsionada economía que crea el oro en el lugar más rico (y violento) del país, BBC, August 17th, 2018
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