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# Caroní ( Ciudad Guayana )
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* Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, officially founded in 1961 is actually composed of the old town of San Félix at the east and the new modern planned town of Puerto Ordaz at the west of Caroní river in Bolívar state.
The other major Venezuelan river is the fast-flowing Caroní, which originates in the Guiana highlands and flows northward into the Orinoco upstream from Ciudad Guyana.
The river is navigable for most of its length, and dredging enables ocean ships to go as far as Ciudad Bolívar, at the confluence of the Caroní River, upstream.
Since 1988, the local government of Ciudad Guayana has conducted a swim race in the rivers Orinoco and Caroní, with up to 1000 competitors.
In Puerto Ordaz is located the electricity industry of Caroní ( Edelca ) which manage several of the hydroelectric centrals over the Caroní river: Macagua I and II and Caruachi, all of the 3 located on the urban side of Ciudad Guayana.
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The Orinoco River is navigable by oceangoing vessels up to 400 km inland, and connects the major industrial city of Ciudad Guayana to the Atlantic Ocean.
Boa Vista is connected with all the cities in Venezuela such as Ciudad Guayana, the easternmost city in this country.
Puerto Ordaz is a planned city which, together with the older settlement of San Felix, forms Ciudad Guayana in Bolívar State, eastern Venezuela.
It begins at the toll on the " Ciudad Bolivar-Ciudad Guayana " Highway, and goes all the way through Puerto Ordaz ( industrial zone, airport, commercial zone, residential zone, even the touristic zone since it side passes the Cachamay Park ).
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